arun rao
i co-lead a large team of research engineers working on ML recommenders and ranking models at Facebook CoreML; we serve 2.7bn people
i spend my time thinking about real-world applications of ML, crypto, internet protocols, APIs, contemporary art, and design
before this, i led an applications and platform machine learning team at Amazon Music in San Francisco; in the past, i was a co-founder of Starbutter AI (Skydeck F17) and a quant debt and derivatives trader at PIMCO
i’m a grad of UCLA, Penn/Wharton, and the Indiana Academy
i like books, running, yoga, math, grammar and style, dead ancient languages, modern computer languages, black hole physics, bears, and pad see-ew
writing
Why Crypto Matters (It’s a Lot More than Bitcoin)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Inequality
Why the new AI/ML language model GPT-3 is a big deal
Primer on AI and Machine Learning (Part 1, Non-Technical)
A List of the World’s Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes and Think Tanks
resources
Google: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data – 2009
Google: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data – Revisited 2017
Open AI: GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
MIT: The Data Nutrition Project
Open AI/Jack Clark: Import AI on new Machine Learning advances
UC Irvine: Machine Learning Repository of Datasets
