Listen "Pavel Iakubovskii: Kaggle Master at Hugging Face"
Episode Synopsis
Pavel holds two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze on Kaggle. He’s also the author of several well-known libraries, including one that has about 20,000 stars on GitHub. Currently, he's a member of the open source engineering team at Hugging Face. This episode covers Pavel's journey from growing up in a small town in Russia, to becoming a Kaggle competition master and computer vision engineer at Hugging Face. The conversation also covers many insights about Hugging Face itself, including Hugging Face Hub, Enterprise Hub, the Transformers library, the Diffusers library for generating images, pilot projects (about 20-30 every six months), auto-training and showcasing models on Spaces, Remi Cadene's LeRobot, and Zero GPU. It also covers information about Hugging Face datasets, including a 15-trillion token dataset that's big enough to train a base NLP model.
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