
About this episode
We have all used web and product search technologies for quite some time, but how do they actually work and how is AI impacting search? Andrew Stanton from Etsy joins us to dive into AI-based search methods and to talk about neuroevolution. He also gives us an introduction to Rust for production ML/AI and explains how that community is developing.
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Featuring:
- Andrew Stanton – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Yahoo learning to rank challenge
- NEAT approach to neuroevolution
- OpenAI evolutionary strategies for Atari
- Rust
- PyO3, Rust binding for the Python interpreter
- Buzzsaw: A System for High Speed Feature Engineering
- LinkedIn at KDD
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