Podcast Episodes

Max Irwin - Founder, MAX.IO - On economics of scale in embedding computation with Mighty

Season 1 Episode 13

00:00 Introduction

01:10 Max's deep experience in search and how he transitioned from structured data

08:28 Query-term dependence problem and Max's perception of the Vector Search field

12:46 Is vector …

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Grant Ingersoll - Fractional CTO, Leading Search Consultant - Engineering Better Search

Season 1 Episode 12

Vector Podcast Live

Topics:

00:00 Kick-off introducing co:rise study platform

03:03 Grant’s background

04:58 Principle of 3 C’s in the life of a CTO: Code, Conferences and Customers

07:16 Principle of 3 C…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Daniel Tunkelang - Leading Search Consultant - Leveraging ML for query and content understanding

Season 1 Episode 11

Topics:

00:00 Kick-off by Judy Zhu

01:33 Introduction by Dmitry Kan and his bio!

03:03 Daniel’s background

04:46 “Science is the difference between instinct and strategy”

07:41 Search as a personal learn…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Yusuf Sarıgöz - AI Research Engineer, Qdrant - Getting to know your data with metric learning

Season 1 Episode 10

Topics:

00:00 Intro

01:03 Yusuf’s background

03:00 Multimodal search in tech and humans

08:53 CLIP: discovering hidden semantics

13:02 Where to start to apply metric learning in practice. AutoEncoder arch…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Jo Bergum - Distinguished Engineer, Yahoo! Vespa - Journey of Vespa from Sparse into Neural Search

Season 1 Episode 9

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:21 Jo Kristian’s background in Search / Recommendations since 2001 in Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)

03:16 Nice words about Trondheim

04:37 Role of NTNU in supplying search t…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Amin Ahmad - CTO, Vectara - Algolia / Elasticsearch-like search product on neural search principles

Season 1 Episode 8

Update: ZIR.AI has relaunched as Vectara: https://vectara.com/

Topics:

00:00 Intro

00:54 Amin’s background at Google Research and affinity to NLP and vector search field

05:28 Main focus areas of ZIR.AI …

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

Yury Malkov - Staff Engineer, Twitter - Author of the most adopted ANN algorithm HNSW

Season 1 Episode 7

Topics:

00:00 Introduction

01:04 Yury’s background in laser physics, computer vision and startups

05:14 How Yury entered the field of nearest neighbor search and his impression of it

09:03 “Not all Small…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Joan Fontanals - Principal Engineer - Jina AI

Season 1 Episode 6

Topics:

00:00 Intro

00:42 Joan's background

01:46 What attracted Joan's attention in Jina as a company and product?

04:39 Main area of focus for Joan in the product

05:46 How Open Source model works for J…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Tom Lackner - VP Engineering - Classic.com - on Qdrant, NFT, challenges and joys of ML engineering

Season 1 Episode 5

Show notes:

- The ML Test Score: A Rubric for ML Production Readiness and Technical Debt Reduction https://research.google/pubs/pub46555/

- IEEE MLOps Standard for Ethical AI https://docs.google.com/do…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Connor Shorten - PhD Researcher - Florida Atlantic University & Founder at Henry AI Labs

Season 1 Episode 4

Show notes:

- On the Measure of Intelligence by François Chollet - Part 1: Foundations (Paper Explained) [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qGr...)

- [2108.07258 On the Opportunities and Risk…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago