743: How to Integrate Generative A.I. Into Your Business, with Piotr Grudzień

Explore the origins of NumPy and SciPy with their creator, Dr. Travis Oliphant. Discover the journey from personal need to global impact, the challenges overcome, and the future of these essential Python libraries in scientific computing and data science.

This episode is brought to you by the DataConnect Conference, by Data Universe, the out-of-this-world data conference, and by CloudWolf, the Cloud Skills platform. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Travis's journey to creating NumPy and SciPy [08:05]
• How Anaconda got started [42:24]
• How Numba, a high-performance Python compiler, was brought to market [54:48]
• Python's influence on the thought processes of scientists and engineers [1:04:21]
• The commercial projects that support Travis’s vast open-source efforts and communities [1:10:22]
• How to get involved in Travis's commercial projects and communities [1:22:34]
• The future of scientific computing and Python libraries [1:29:50]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/765

Data science futurists, bestselling authors, and lively how-to guides from the industry’s top practitioners, which range from applying data science for good to using open-source tools for NLP: This is The Super Data Science Podcast’s top ten most listened-to episodes in 2023, hosted by Jon Krohn. A great snapshot of our great content from 2023.

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At Glasswing Ventures, Rudina Seseri wants to be able to answer the question: What has Glasswing Ventures done for the company beyond capital investment? She speaks to Jon Krohn about how her company uses data to assess venture capital investments, the secret sauce of successful AI startups, and why she feels generative AI is only the start of a much broader impact that AI will make in communities and businesses.

This episode is brought to you by the DataConnect Conference, and by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Potential interest areas for Series A AI venture capitalists [12:22]
• How Glasswing’s AI Palette helps AI startups [23:06]
• How data driven the venture capital industry is [27:21]
• Advice for adopting services from AI providers [47:21]
• Model collapse: Causes and concerns [58:44]
• Glasswing’s checklist for AI startups [1:04:59]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/763

Jon Krohn presents an insightful overview of Google's groundbreaking Gemini Pro 1.5, a million-token LLM that's transforming the landscape of AI. Discover the innovative aspects of Gemini Pro 1.5, from its extensive context window to its multimodal functionalities, which are broadening the scope of AI technology and signifying a significant leap in data science. Plus, join Jon for a practical demonstration, showcasing the real-world applications, capabilities, and limitation of this advanced language model.

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Google's Gemini Ultra takes the spotlight this week, as host Jon Krohn welcomes Lisa Cohen, Google's Director of Data Science and Engineering, for a conversation about the launch of Gemini Ultra. Discover the capabilities of this cutting-edge large language model and how it stands toe-to-toe with GPT-4. Lisa shares her insights on the development, rollout, and potential of Gemini Ultra in reshaping various sectors. Whether you're a data science professional, tech enthusiast, or curious about the future of AI, this episode offers a deep dive into one of the most significant advancements in artificial intelligence.

This episode is brought to you by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility, and by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software Solutions. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Google’s Gemini model family and Lisa's key responsibilities [04:55]
• How LLMs will transform the practice of Data Science [19:47]
• Lisa on prompt engineering and reinforcement learning from human feedback [24:38]
• How to fine-tune Gemini models with Google's Vertex AI [30:52]
• How AI-assistants will transform life and work for everyone from data scientists to educators to children [47:14]
• The challenges of developing a data-centric culture [57:31]
• Centralized vs decentralized data science teams [1:03:50]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/761

AI-crafted beer, machine learning for passion projects, and self-taught data science: Jon Krohn and Beau Warren’s hotly anticipated, data-driven, punny lager Krohn&Borg is finally given a taste test in this week’s Five-Minute Friday. Heading to the Species X brewery in Columbus, Ohio, Jon Krohn and Beau Warren launched the beer that had been predicted, optimized and developed by a machine-learning model.

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Encoders, cross attention and masking for LLMs: SuperDataScience Founder Kirill Eremenko returns to the SuperDataScience podcast, where he speaks with Jon Krohn about transformer architectures and why they are a new frontier for generative AI. If you’re interested in applying LLMs to your business portfolio, you’ll want to pay close attention to this episode!

This episode is brought to you by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility, by Oracle NetSuite business software, and by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software Solutions. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• How decoder-only transformers work [15:51]
• How cross-attention works in transformers [41:05]
• How encoders and decoders work together (an example) [52:46]
• How encoder-only architectures excel at understanding natural language [1:20:34]
• The importance of masking during self-attention [1:27:08]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/759

Explore the groundbreaking Mamba model, a potential game-changer in AI that promises to outpace the traditional Transformer architecture with its efficient, linear-time sequence modeling.

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Explore mind-blowing storytelling with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic in this episode. Audience favorite and author of "Storytelling with You," Cole returns to share essential tips for crafting impactful presentations, emphasizing narrative construction and audience engagement. Learn how to effectively communicate data and stories, enhancing your presentations with insights from a leading expert in the field.

This episode is brought to you by CloudWolf, the Cloud Skills platform. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• How to become a confident communicator [11:59]
• How to get rid of filler words [26:32]
• How facts alone can't make a strong impact [41:44]
• Cole's overview of her book Storytelling with You [55:19]
• How to craft an effective presentation [1:00:24]
• Common mistakes in virtual presentations [1:09:48]
• Cole's virtual presentation setup [1:15:33]
• Cole's next book Daphne Draws Data [1:20:23]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/757

AlphaGeometry, intuitive AI, and geometric deduction: In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Super Data Science host Jon Krohn looks into developments from DeepMind, Google’s ground-breaking AI lab, and explores how this is a critical step towards a future of broadly accessible AI solutions across scientific disciplines.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/756

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