
The MLOps Podcast
A podcast from DagsHub about bringing machine learning into the real world. Each episode features a conversation with top data science and machine learning practitioners, who'll share their thoughts, best practices, and tips for promoting machine learning to production
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Jan 15, 2024 • 54min
⏪ Making LLMs Backwards Compatible with Jason Liu
Jason Liu, an applied AI consultant and creator of Instructor, discusses challenges and applications of LLMs. Topics include making LLMs interact with existing systems, building applications with LLMs, thinking in logic and design, and the future of Instructor. They also explore misconceptions in LLMs, improving LLM applications, RAG as recommendation systems, fine-tuning embedding models, measuring impact on business outcomes, and unlocking economic value through structured data extraction.

Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 12min
🔴 Live MLOps Podcast – Building, Deploying and Monitoring Large Language Models with Jinen Setpal
Jinen Setpal, ML Engineer at DagsHub, discusses building, deploying, and monitoring large language models. They explore the DPT chatbot project, evaluation methods, reducing hallucinations, improving inference speed, and monitoring language models in production.

Aug 28, 2023 • 28sec
Live MLOps Podcast Episode!
Join now to take part in our first live MLOps Podcast episode.
I'll be chatting with Jinen Setpal, ML Engineer at DagsHub about his work building LLM applications and getting LLMs into production.
Sign up for the event at the link here:
https://www.linkedin.com/events/7098968036782596096/comments/

Aug 7, 2023 • 1h 2min
⛹️♂️ Large Scale Video ML at WSC Sports with Yuval Gabay
Yuval Gabay, MLOps Engineer at WSC Sports, discusses MLOps methodologies, standardizing deployment, and closing the loop from production to training. They also explore implementing WCS Sports in NBA games, tips for starting in MLOps, managing machine learning with GitOps, and taking ML models into production.

Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 6min
🤖 GPTs & Large Language Models in production with Hamel Husain
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Hamel Husain. Hamel is a machine learning and MLOps extraordinaire, he was one of the core maintainers of Fast.ai and has worked on ML and MLOps in places like Data Robot, Airbnb, and GitHub. We talk about Large Language Models, the future role of data scientists in the world of LLMs, and Hamel's approach to solving MLOps problems.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oElMXPkaVs
Relevant Links:
🐦 Hamel's Twitter – https://twitter.com/HamelHusain
🟦 Hamel's Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamelhusain/
✍️ Hamel's amazing blog: https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/nbdev/
🌐 Check Out Our Website! https://dagshub.com
Social Links:
➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dagshub
➡️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDAGsHub
➡️ Dean Pleban: https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn

May 23, 2023 • 56min
🫣 Is Data Science a dying job? with Almog Baku
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Almog Baku, a serial entrepreneur, consultant in Cloud, AI Infrastructure and Foundational models. We talk about Kubernetes, Large Language Models (LLMs), how to get them into production, and how data is becoming a more central piece of the ML landscape. We also Discuss Almog's newest project, Raptor ML, which helps ML teams productionize ML pipelines.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCApRXhXD_w&feature=youtu.be
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/tEYvqxwhah
Relevant Links:
🦅 Check out Raptor for ML productionization – https://github.com/raptor-ml/raptor
👫 Join the Open AI & Gen AI TLV meetup group – https://www.meetup.com/openai-genai-tlv/
📄 Read a very cool LLM paper – https://react-lm.github.io/
➡️ Almog Baku on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/almogbaku/
➡️ Almog Baku on Twitter – https://twitter.com/almogbaku
Recommendation Links:
Watch "Foundation" – https://tv.apple.com/us/show/foundation/umc.cmc.5983fipzqbicvrve6jdfep4x3
🌐 Check Out Our Website! https://dagshub.com
Social Links:
➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dagshub
➡️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDAGsHub
➡️ Dean Pleban: https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn

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Mar 30, 2023 • 57min
🏃♀️Moving Fast and Breaking Data with Shreya Shankar
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Shreya Shankar, Ph.D. student at Berkeley RISELab. We chat about auto data validation and MLOps. Shreya shares her insights on several interesting topics, including the challenges of automating the data validation process and how to overcome them. We also discuss what makes organizations able to iterate faster in machine learning, and some predictions about the future of machine learning and MLOps.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/_hi6--H2Hug
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/tEYvqxwhah
Relevant Links:
📃 Moving Fast with Broken Data – https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06094v1
🤖 Operationalizing machine learning https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09125.pdf
📒 Operationalizing notebooks https://smacke.net/papers/nbslicer.pdf
➡️ Shreya Shankar on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrshnk/
➡️ Shreya Shankar on Twitter – https://twitter.com/sh_reya
Recommendation Links:
📺 The Glory – A Korean Revenge Drama – https://www.netflix.com/title/81519223
⛷️ Go Skiing!
🌐 Check Out Our Website! https://dagshub.com
Social Links:
➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dagshub
➡️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDAGsHub
➡️ Dean Pleban: https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn

Feb 21, 2023 • 50min
🚴♀️ Quick & Dirty Machine Learning with Noa Weiss
In this episode, Dean speaks with Noa Weiss, the wonderful AI & ML consultant. They dive into Deep Learning research for marine mammal sounds, abstractions for machine learning projects and some of the unspoken challenges she's seen in the ML development process. Also prediction markets and Harry Potter.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQrR0KPq3RQ
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/tEYvqxwhah
Relevant Links:
Noa's talks:
🎥 The Quick & Dirty AI Startup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ_LRxP3ep0
🎥 Choosing the Right Machine Learning Abstraction for your Business Needs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0gN47H91HM
➡️ Noa Weiss on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/noa-weiss/
➡️ Noa Weiss on Twitter – https://twitter.com/NWeiss
🌐 Noa's website: https://www.weissnoa.com
Recommendation Links:
- Unsong – https://unsongbook.com/
- Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality – https://www.hpmor.com/
🌐 Check Out Our Website! https://dagshub.com
Social Links:
➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dagshub
➡️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDAGsHub
➡️ Dean Pleban: https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn

Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 18min
✍️ Building ML Teams and Platforms with Assaf Pinhasi
In this episode, I speak with Assaf Pinhasi, ML engineering and MLOps consultant extraordinaire! Assaf was the VP R&D at Zebra Medical Vision, and built the PayPal Risk organization's Big Data Platform. We dive into building ML infrastructure from scratch 10 years ago vs. today, best practices involved in building teams to support machine learning models in production, and the future of generative models.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tSbuDA5tMxQ
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/tEYvqxwhah
➡️ Assaf Pinhasi on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/assafpinhasi/
🌐 Check Out Our Website! https://dagshub.com
Social Links:
➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dagshub
➡️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDAGsHub
➡️ Dean Pleban: https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn

Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 14min
🎨 Stable Diffusion and generative models with David Marx
In this episode, I speak with David Marx, Distinguished Engineer at Stability AI. This talk dives into how David got into machine learning, open-source software, and Stability AI. We discuss following your curiosity, and what it takes to deploy a model like Stable Diffusion to production.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/49dsoDK1KCA
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/tEYvqxwhah
Relevant Links:
🛌 Big Sleep by Ryan Murdock – https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NCceX2mbiKOSlAd_o7IU7nA9UskKN5WR?usp=sharing (Author – https://sigmoid.social/@Adverb)
➡️ David Marx on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-marx-b0a5bb14/
➡️ David Marx on Twitter – https://twitter.com/DigThatData
Recommendation Links:
📚 Guerrilla Analytics – https://guerrilla-analytics.net/
💿 Contribute to open source!
🧱 Build lego! It's awesome
🌐 Check Out Our Website! https://dagshub.com
Social Links:
➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dagshub
➡️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealDAGsHub
➡️ Dean Pleban: https://twitter.com/DeanPlbn
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