A Systems View of Machine Learning

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In this video from PyData Seattle 2015, Dr. Joshua Bloom from UC Berkeley presents: A Systems View of Machine Learning.

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Despite the growing abundance of powerful tools, building and deploying machine-learning frameworks into production continues to be major challenge, in both science and industry. I’ll present some particular pain points and cautions for practitioners as well as recent work addressing some of the nagging issues. I advocate for a systems view, which, when expanded beyond the algorithms and codes to the organizational ecosystem, places some interesting constraints on the teams tasked with development and stewardship of ML products.

Dr. Joshua Bloom

Dr. Joshua Bloom

Dr. Joshua Bloom is an astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches high-energy astrophysics and Python for data scientists. He has published over 250 refereed articles largely on time-domain transients events and telescope/insight automation. His book on gamma-ray bursts, a technical introduction for physical scientists, was published recently by Princeton University Press. He is also co-founder and CTO of wise.io, a startup based in Berkeley. Josh has been awarded the Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society; he is also a former Sloan Fellow, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society, and Hertz Foundation Fellow. He holds a PhD from Caltech and degrees from Harvard and Cambridge University.

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