The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly: Navigating the New Waves of Machine Learning ft. Adi Polak

2023/08/24Featuring:

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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