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# Adi Polak

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Adi Polak is Director of Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering at Confluent. She is the author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark" and a frequent conference speaker on data and ML topics.

## 1 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

[0:25:04](/videos/the-bad-the-good-and-the-ugly-navigating-the-new-waves-of-machine-learning-ft-adi-polak/)[2023-08-24](/videos/the-bad-the-good-and-the-ugly-navigating-the-new-waves-of-machine-learning-ft-adi-polak/)

### [The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly: Navigating the New Waves of Machine Learning ft. Adi Polak](/videos/the-bad-the-good-and-the-ugly-navigating-the-new-waves-of-machine-learning-ft-adi-polak/)

Mehdi chats with Adi Polak, the author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark", right after the DATA+AI summit by Databricks in San Francisco. They had an insightful discussion about ML, the basics of data, how LLMs help, ++.

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AI, ML and LLMs

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