Jhon Masschelein, Author at Roaring Elephant

Episode 167- Year 4: definitely no longer a Toddler!

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Please join us as celebrate four years of podcasting on Big Data and Big Tech.

After 166 episodes, we’ve somehow reached our fourth anniversary and as is by now tradition, we invite guests we had over the year back for this episode to see what they have been up to.

Episode 166 – Roaring News

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SpaceX will solve the worlds Internet woes, courtesy of Elon Musk, Quantum Supremacy may still be a little while off (like a couple of decades), courtesy of IBM and from now on, the “don’t call us, we’ll call you” response to your job interview will be courtesy of an artificial intelligence (or lack thereof).

Episode 165 – Best Practices for Machine Learning

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A little while ago we came across a blog by Martin Zinkevich about the best practices for ML Engineering at Google. We had this one on the back burner for a while now and we decided to go ahead and do an episode on this subject, using this article as a rough guide.

Episode 164 – Roaring News

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Believe it or not, Hadoop is dead, again. In other news, Facebook’s Libra coin is getting more and more boxed in and Microsoft thinks the real world is realy just too ugly to look at during your daily commute. Enjoy!

Episode 163- The Cloudpod weather report Part 2

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It cannot be denied that cloud, particularly public cloud has become ever more prevalent across the “Big Tech” universe. In order to give this subject the attention it deserves, we went out and found some podcasting colleagues who specialize on this subject and put them in front of our “question firing squad”.