Episode 11 - How an AI Company Turns Raw Data Into Predictive Insights
On this week's episode, Donji and Avi sit down with Tristan Zajonc. Tristan's diversified background in: Statistics, Quantitative Research, Coding, and Economics led him to founding his own company shortly after his PhD program ended at Harvard. From being the CEO of Sense, CTO for Machine Learning at Cloudera, he wound up being bit by the Entrepreneurial bug again, founding Operational AI Layer company Continual. Tristan's breadth of knowledge in the space is incredibly interesting and we look forward to getting him back on the pod in the future!
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Episode 10 - Can Disney-Quality Animation Be Made Instantly with AI?
Yuval's work caught the eyes of many, eventually being showcased on 2-Minute Papers. The YouTube platform of over 1 million Subscribers shares state-of-the-art AI breakthroughs from Academic research and transforms them into readily accessible content.
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A Cosmopolitan Journey
After being a developer for so long - Fortran in 1979 followed by Pascal, C, Java, and settling on python in 1997 - I’m no stranger to memory leaks and spikes. I still love hunting down bugs . . .
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Episode 9 - How she became a 40 Under 40 Data Scientist
On this week's episode, Donji sits down with Sharmistha Chatterjee. Sharmistha shares her advice to Developer's looking to get recognized for their research, her time at Nokia while studying a Master's in Helsinki, and how Blogging can make a big jump for one's future career.
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Episode 8 - Big Data & Creating a Python-Learning platform for Junior-Devs
On this week's episode, Donji sits down with Rune Thomsen. Rune has had a full career developing, managing and now consulting big data applications for large enterprise companies. Once Coronavirus put everyone inside, Rune figured why not take the extra time to step back, reflect, and go back to his roots. His "Learn Python With Rune" series took off, seeing over 30,000 subscribers to his Udemy page in under a year.
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Episode 7 - How a 12 Person Team Became a $4.5 Billion Acquisition
On this week's episode, Klay sits down with Ido Sarig. Ido's career in Startup culture has spanned over 3 decades, being one of the core team members that lead Mercury to a $4.5 Bn acquisition by HP in the early 2000's.
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Episode 6 - Can We Replace Manual Research with Automation?
On this week's episode, Donji sits down with Brad Hastedt. Brad's career has expanded over 20 years leading: sales, marketing, human resources, and finance operations amongst multiple industries. His first endeavor in Startup culture resulted in a sale of the company, leading him into his second venture with VERESAI.
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Avi Gopal and 100% Accuracy - The Metabob Podcast
Meet Avi Gopal, CTO of Metabob! Avi’s professional career in technology began in Aerospace Engineering. He then moved to the automation space, area-mapping, eventually leading to his new field of machine learning . . .
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Episode 5 - Can AI Be More Accessible at an Early Age?
On this week's episode, Donji sits down with Nisha Talagala. Nisha is an esteemed technology master; after graduating from UC Berkeley , Nisha spent her time working for Intel, building incredible Startup teams, and now is curating AI Club - empowering kids from elementary, middle, and high school to learn AI and realize their passions through creative applications of their learnings. Nisha has so much to share and we loved sitting down with her to talk about her work!
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Chasing memory spikes and leaks in Python
After being a developer for so long - Fortran in 1979 followed by Pascal, C, Java, and settling on python in 1997 - I’m no stranger to memory leaks and spikes. I still love hunting down bugs . . .
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Episode 4 - Sam Thapaliya, CEO of ASMI
ASMI is the World's First Automated Solution for In-Video Advertising. Sam shares his incredible journey from seeing a computer in Nepal for the first time at the age of 11, to coming to the United States and pursuing his Entrepreneurial dreams.
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Episode 3 - How to Transform an Idea into an AI Startup
On this week's episode, Donji sits down with Shilpa Sharma. Shilpa is a lifelong tech admirer, worldly businesswoman, and now CEO of Flyte -- a Workflow Automation Platform for Complex, Mission-Critical Data and ML Processes at Scale. From her incredible journey from India to her current home in Canada, to the vital role collaboration plays in small teams, Shilpa shares a breadth of knowledge any Entrepreneur would be lucky to hear. Thank you to Shilpa and look into flyte.io for your next important meeting!
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LDA and the Method of Topic Modeling
Previously, we mentioned the need for Topic Modeling. One common application is an email filter. You train the model by feeding it many emails, each one labeled as “spam” or “urgent” or “work-related” or “promotion” or “social.” . . .
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Episode 1 - Avi and AI
This new, weekly series will take a deep dive into the tech ecosystem, putting real people and explanations behind some of the common household ideas and misconceptions about the industry. This week, we get to know Metabob CTO Avi Gopal! Tune in weekly to catch new episodes and uncover more about the worlds of AI, Startups and all things tech.
