Sample Space
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Time for some (extreme) distillation with Thomas van Dongen…
Time for some (extreme) distillation with Thomas van Dongen…
About this podcast
Sample space is a podcast about tools, thoughts and techniques from machine learning practitioners. We talk to toolmakers and practitioners about interesting problems in the real world to find out how great ideas in our field actually manifest.
Episodes
- Time for some (extreme) distillation with Thomas van Dongen - founder of the Minish Lab · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 13Word embeddings might feel like they are a little bit out of fashion. After all, we have attention mechanisms and transformer models now, right? Well, it turns out that if you…
- Imbalanced learn: regrets and onwards - with Guillaume Lemaitre, maintainer · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 12Imbalanced learn is one of the most popular scikit-learn projects out there. It has support for resampling techniques which historically have always been used for imbalanced…
- You want to be in control of your own Copilot - with Ty Dunn, co-founder at Continue.dev · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 11There are many LLMs that you can use for programming these days. Some of them even go into your IDE like Cursor or Github Copilot. But what if you want to tweak these LLMs do to…
- What it is like to maintain the scikit-learn docs - with David Arturo Amor Quiroz, scikit-learn docs maintainer · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 10Scikit-learn's documentation pages are celebrated. But not everyone is aware that the project actually has somebody on payroll to take care of it. In this episode we talk to…
- Sqlite can totally do embeddings now - with Alex Garcia, sqlite-vec maintainer · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 9Vector databases are kind of everywhere these days. There is a big pool of VC's that are pooring money into the ecosystem too. But while all of that is happening, sqlite has also…
- How to rethink the notebook - with Akshay Agrawal, co-creator of Marimo · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 8Jupyter has been a great environment to explore computational ideas, but that doesn't mean that it can be the only environment for interactive coding in Python. It also comes…
- You are always dealing with many tables - with Madelon Hulsebos · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 7When you are working on a data pipeline for ML ... you are never dealing with a single table. It always demands different tables for different reasons that all have to be mashed…
- How Narwhals has many end users ... that never use it directly with Marco Gorelli · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 6When you pip install a package you will for sure end up using it later. But often you will also install a bunch of dependencies and it is very likely that you won't directly…
- Pragmatic data science checklists with Peter Bull - cofounder Drivendata · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 5A lot of things can (and have) gone wrong when folks tried to apply data science projects. So how might we prevent that? Maybe what we need to do is to look at the medical…
- Model safety, that's a pickle! with Adrin Jalali - scikit-learn maintainer · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 4Historically it's always been the case that you would use a pickle file to store a trained scikit-learn model on disk for deployment. Pickles make sense because these are so…
- Moving Towards KDearestNeighbors with Leland McInnes - creator of UMAP · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 3Leland McInnes is known for a lot of packages. There's UMAP, but also PyNNDescent and HDBScan. Recently he's also been working on tools to help visualise clusters of data and…
- Talk like a DataFrame, run like SQL with Phillip Cloud - core-committer on Ibis · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 2Ibis is a Python library that offers a single data-frame API, from Python, which can run your queries on many different backends. These include databases like Postgres, but also…
- Enhancing Jupyter with Widgets with Trevor Manz - creator of anywidget. · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 1In this (first!) episode of Sample Space we talk to Trevor Mantz, the creator of anywidget. It's a (neat!) tool to help you build more interactive notebooks by giving you tools…
