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Mar 2020
1h 12m

345: Machine Learning At Twitter

Jon Krohn
About this episode

I speak with Dan Shiebler who works as a machine learning engineer at Twitter Cortex and at the same time, is doing a Ph.D. on applying category theory in machine learning. We discuss his work at Twitter, the importance of academics, and the future of machine learning.


In this episode you will learn:

  • What is great about Twitter [5:31]
  • Dan’s Ph.D. program [9:25]
  • Dan’s work at Twitter [18:07]
  • Dan at DSGO 2020 [35:16]
  • LinkedIn Q&A [40:25]
  • Dan’s advice [1:03:58]


Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/345

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