How machine learning algorithms figure out what you should watch next
Curation at scale needs to process a lot of data with a good algorithm.
The luckiest guy in AI (Ep. 477)
Serial entrepreneur Varun Ganapathi joins the home team for a conversation about the intersection of physics, machine learning, and AI. He offers some recommendations for developers looking to get started in the ML/AI space and shares his own path from academia to entrepreneurship.
Eira May
Content Writer
Why AI is having an on-prem moment (Ep. 476)
The home team discusses how Instagram’s evolving platform has alienated some creators, why AI and machine learning are moving on-premises, and why Amazon’s acquisition of the company behind the Roomba is striking from a privacy perspective.
Eira May
Content Writer
The last technical interview you’ll ever take (Ep. 474)
Since the day a hiring manager first wheeled a whiteboard into a conference room, software engineers have dreaded the technical interview, which can be an all-day process (or multi-day homework assignment). If you’re interviewing for multiple roles, you can expect to write out a bubble sort in pseudocode for each one. These technical interviews do…
The internet’s Robin Hood uses robo-lawyers to fight parking tickets and spam calls (Ep. 471)
Joshua Browder, founder and CEO of DoNotPay, tells us how a heap of expensive parking tickets inspired him to build software that helps people avoid fines, secure refunds, claim free land, win back lost savings, and even combat systemic racism.
Eira May
Content Writer
San Francisco? More like San Francis-go (Ep. 468)
Ben and Matt discuss how tech workers’ preference for remote work is driving a near-exodus from cities like San Francisco, while smaller cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma are literally paying remote workers to relocate.
Eira May
Content Writer
Ethical AI isn’t just how you build it, it’s how you use it
What good is removing biases from a robot that turns grandmothers into smoothies?
Turns out the Great Resignation goes both ways (Ep. 445)
The home team covers the hiring freezes and layoffs hitting the tech sector, burnout among freelancers and applicants for tech jobs, the dubious ethics of unpaid internships, and how to make Twitter safer by preemptively blocking people.
Eira May
Content Writer
The robots are coming for (the boring parts of) your job
Are the robots coming for your job? You’ve heard this question before. But in 2022, with AI increasingly ubiquitous in the lives of most coders, the issue feels more pressing.
Eira May
Content Writer
Will chatbots ever live up to the hype?
Chatbots held so much promise as a software tool. But near-future NLP advances will bring them more in line with their hype.
The Overflow #119: Silicon Valley accurately reflects Silicon Valley
This week: developers’ favorite movies and music, surviving a SOC 2 audit, and how much time developers actually spend writing code.
