Panoply announced it has expanded its Series A funding to a total of $13 million. The latest to join the round is C5 Capital with a $5M infusion. (more…)

Can maintaining machine learning in production be easier? I go through some practical tips. (more…)

My guest this week is Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science at UT-Austin and vice president of Research at Sentient Technologies. Risto came locked and loaded to discuss a topic that we've received a ton of requests for -- evolutionary algorit... (more…)

Machine learning offers a fantastically powerful toolkit for building complex systems quickly. This paper argues that it is dangerous to think of these quick wins as coming for free. Using the framework of technical debt, we note that it is remarkably eas... (more…)

I’m not going to bury the lede: Most machine learning benchmarks are bad.  And not just kinda-sorta nit-picky bad, but catastrophically and fundamentally flawed.  TL;DR: Please, for the love of sta… (more…)