Interview with Even Oldridge | Applied Research, Top Down Learning & Fast.ai | NVIDIA & Rapids.ai

Note to the listeners: Even's team is also hiring! If you're interested in bringing great ideas to the "GPU Ecosystem", please check:

https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-Machine-Learning-Engineer--Recommender-Systems---RAPIDS_JR1926986

https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-Applied-Research-Scientist--Recommender-Systems---RAPIDS_JR1926987

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Even Oldridge, Senior Applied Research Scientist at Nvidia currently working on the rapids.ai team.

They talk all about Even's journey and Even's journey into fast ai, his thoughts around the course and many best advises for people just taking the course and following the top down way of learning new things.

They also talk a lot about his current work at rapid.ai. What rapids is currently working on including multiple projects, cudf, cuml, cugraph, and all of the little projects that sit inside of the rapids ai repository.

Links:

https://rapids.ai 

https://course.fast.ai 

https://medium.com/rapids-ai/accelerating-deep-learning-recommender-systems-by-15x-using-rapids-fastai-and-pytorch-b50b4d8568d1?source=---------0-----------------------

Links to referred interviews:  

CPMP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqHlAOFSFuQ&list=PLLvvXm0q8zUbiNdoIazGzlENMXvZ9bd3x&index=7 

Jeremy Howard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=205j37G1cxw&list=PLLvvXm0q8zUbiNdoIazGzlENMXvZ9bd3x&index=5 

Andrew Shaw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbYeCWG9GIU&list=PLLvvXm0q8zUbiNdoIazGzlENMXvZ9bd3x&index=16 

Christine Payne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwXIaDrQvwE&list=PLLvvXm0q8zUbiNdoIazGzlENMXvZ9bd3x&index=21 

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