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Menu Home Publications About Starting a Second Machine Learning Tools Company, Ten Years Later June 24, 2019 June 24, 2019 ~ lbiewald I’ve spent the last six months heads down building a new machine learning tool called Weights and Biases with my longtime cofounder Chris Van Pelt, my new cofounder and friend Shawn Lewis and brave early users at Open AI, Toyota Research, Uber and others. Now that it’s public I wanted to talk a little bit about why I’m (still) so excited about building machine learning tool
I remember the magic I felt training my first machine learning algorithm. It was 2002 and I was taking Stanford’s 221 class from Daphne Koller. I had procrastinated so I spent 72 hours straight in the computer lab building a reinforcement learning algorithm that played game after game of Othello against itself. The algorithm started off incredibly dumb, but I kept fiddling and watching the computer struggle to play on my little ASCII terminal. In the middle of the night, something clicked and it started get
When I worked as a TA in Daphne’s lab a few years later during grad school, it seemed like nothing in ML was working. The now famous NIPS conference had just a few hundred attendees. I remember Mike Montemerlo and Sebastian Thrun had to work to get skeptical grad students excited about a self-driving car project. Out in the world, AI was mostly being used to rank ads.
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