Lukas Biewald: Crowdsourcing at CrowdFlower and ML Tooling at Weights & Biases

In episode 33 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Lukas Biewald.

Lukas Biewald is a co-founder of Weights and Biases, a company that creates developer tools for machine learning. Prior to that he was a co-founder and CEO of Figure Eight Inc. (formerly CrowdFlower) — an Internet company that collects training data for machine learning, which was sold for 300 million dollars.

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Outline:

• (00:00) Intro

• (01:18) Start in AI

• (06:17) CrowdFlower / Crowdsourcing

• (21:06) Discovering Deep Learning 

• (25:10) Learning Deep Learning

• (32:50) Weights and Biases

• (37:30) State of Tooling for ML 

• (41:20) Exciting AI Trends

• (44:42) Interests outside of AI

• (45:40) Outro

Links:

• Lukas’s website

• Lukas’s GitHub

• Starting a Second Machine Learning Tools Company, Ten Years Later

• Confession of a so-called AI expert

• What I learned from looking at 200 machine learning tools

• CS 329S: Machine Learning Systems Design

• Designing Machine Learning Systems

Opportunity at Weights & Biases:

Weights & Biases @weights_biases

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