Listen "549: Engineering Natural Language Models — with Lauren Zhu"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, Glean software engineer and Stanford graduate Lauren Zhu joins us to discuss her role at a fast-growing startup, working on natural language processing projects, and how she remains inspired by pursuing her side passions.
In this episode you will learn:
Lauren's experience as a course assistant [5:53]
Stanford's Hacking the Coronavirus Course [11:53]
How do you empower minority groups in AI [19:45]
Lauren on zero-shot multilingual neural machine translation [23:25]
Lauren's work at Glean [27:58]
The Contrary Talent Network [34:30]
The tools Lauren uses at Glean [43:39]
The most important skills to possess as a data scientist [47:29]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/549
In this episode you will learn:
Lauren's experience as a course assistant [5:53]
Stanford's Hacking the Coronavirus Course [11:53]
How do you empower minority groups in AI [19:45]
Lauren on zero-shot multilingual neural machine translation [23:25]
Lauren's work at Glean [27:58]
The Contrary Talent Network [34:30]
The tools Lauren uses at Glean [43:39]
The most important skills to possess as a data scientist [47:29]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/549
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