{"podcast":{"title":"Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI","slug":"gradient-dissent","podcast_index_feed_id":1020509,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/gradient-dissent/","website_url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/25fd1181-b46e-459b-85a5-d397eec4cdcf/JDLDW81K-wlJoAWL7ZnxLdTp.jpg","author":"Lukas Biewald","episode_count":136,"summary":"Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent"},"episode":{"title":"Will Falcon — Making Lightning the Apple of ML","slug":"will-falcon-making-lightning-the-apple-of-ml","published_at":"2022-09-15T12:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/will-falcon-making-lightning-the-apple-of-ml","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent","url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","audio_url":"https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/96d4ab37-2ab1-4279-8019-0e1b01b22871/GD-Will-Falcon-20v6.mp3","summary":"Will Falcon is the CEO and co-founder of Lightning AI, a platform that enables users to quickly build and publish ML models. In this episode, Will explains how Lightning addresses the challenges of a fragmented AI ecosystem and reveals which framework PyTorch Lightning was originally built upon (hint: not PyTorch!) He also shares lessons he took from his experience serving in the military and offers a recommendation to veterans who want to work in tech. Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-will-falcon --- ⏳ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:00 From SEAL training to FAIR 04:17 Stress-testing Lightning 07:55 Choosing PyTorch over TensorFlow and other frameworks 13:16 Components of the Lightning platform 17:01 Launching Lightning from Facebook 19:09 Similarities between leadership and research 22:08 Lessons from the military 26:56 Scaling PyTorch Lightning to Lightning AI 33:21 Hiring the right people 35:21 The future of Lightning 39:53 Reducing algorithm complexity in self-supervised learning 42:19 A fragmented ML landscape 44:35 Outro --- Connect with Lightning 📍 Website: https://lightning.ai 📍 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LightningAI 📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pytorch-lightning/ 📍 Careers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/lightningai --- 💬 Host: Lukas Biewald 📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Anish Shah, Cayla Sharp, Angelica Pan, Lavanya Shukla --- Subscribe and listen to our podcast today! 👉 Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts​​ 👉 Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts​ 👉 Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify​","meta_description":"Will Falcon is the CEO and co-founder of Lightning AI, a platform that enables users to quickly build and publish ML models. In this episode, Will explain…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2721,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gradient-dissent/episodes/will-falcon-making-lightning-the-apple-of-ml/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/will-falcon-making-lightning-the-apple-of-ml.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}