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Hello and Welcome to Data Driven.
In this episode, Frank and Andy speak with researcher Matteo Interlandi about project Hummingbird.
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00:00:00 BAILey
Hello and welcome to dated driven.
00:00:02 BAILey
In this episode, Frank and Andy speak with researcher Matteo Interlandi about project Hummingbird.
00:00:09 BAILey
Now on with the show.
00:00:10 Frank
Second, hello and welcome to data driven.
00:00:21 Frank
The podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
00:00:27 Frank
If you'd like to think of data as the new oil, then you can consider us.
00:00:30 Frank
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We're on the information superhighway as oh is Andy Leonard.
00:00:39 Frank
How you doing Andy?
00:00:40 Andy
I'm well Frank, how are?
00:00:41 Frank
You I'm doing alright. We're recording this on Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 and the the.
00:00:51 Frank
The the remnants of Hurricane Ida are ripping through the DC area.
00:00:57 Frank
Uh, so if, uh, if I suddenly get dropped, that's because we probably lost power.
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But I do have the backup generator, the one that the professionals installed and my.
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Duct taped together a solar generator so.
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I will be offline.
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For a short.
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Bit and hopefully come back online.
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How how you doing, Eddie.
00:01:23 Andy
I'm doing alright Frank. Well, we are you know I'm about gosh 250 miles South of UM we didn't get near the near the effects of Hurricane Ida as you did.
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We're getting a little bit of rain now.
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We've had some wind.
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Gusts, but it's been really mild, and if you look on the radar.
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Gotta watch it into track and I I do.
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I'm a weather weenie and amateur but it it just kind of went around us to the to the West and it actually started the east when it got a little north of us and aimed right for your house.
00:01:54 Andy
I was looking outside that's where Frank lived, right?
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And look, the eye is coming right for.
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Frank what's left?
00:02:00 Frank
Well, fortunately we're safe.
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There was some kind of flooding in Rockville and the small overnight, and some folks they got up.
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No one, nobody died that I'm.
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Aware of so.
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It it says.
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You know we're not.
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Custom the floods or hurricanes or tornadoes up here in DC and and we're more used to the human threats of, you know, little things like terrorism and things.
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Like that, but.
00:02:26 Andy
Yeah yeah, you guys got a little bit more to worry about that than we do here in FarmVille, right?
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But you know these days.
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Who knows?
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The, uh, definitely our thoughts and prayers are with the folks in in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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They were hit very hard.
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I've got got friends in Georgia, Western Georgia were telling me that.
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They they took a beating as well and you know it just it looks horrible I.
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I you know, I've I've been in a few of those places after hurricanes have hit as part of like church efforts to help clean up and stabilize and stuff like that.
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It looks like I don't know.
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They people describe it as like a war.
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I've never been in a war so I don't know.
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I've seen pictures and.
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There's a lot.
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It looks like a lot of stuff is blowing over, and that sort of.
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Stuff, it's just.
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So, and they're talking weeks and weeks before power comes back on.
00:03:22 Frank
That's horrible, that's.
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Similar places, yeah.
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That's that's.
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Probably going to be do more damage from for a lot of things.
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Were you worried?
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But on a.
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More positive note, uh, a positive note.
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Yes, on a positive note.
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Uh, we are.
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I am super excited to have a special guest and I say super excited because he's from Microsoft.
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He's a senior scientist in Jelt at Microsoft, working on scalable machine learning systems.
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Before he was at Microsoft, he was a postdoc scholar at the Computer Science department at UCLA, and this he was doing a lot of interesting stuff there.
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He was doing research at Qatar or Qatar.
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I'm not sure how to say that exactly, but he has a PhD in computer science.
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In university.
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Of Modena and or?
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I'm going to botch this.
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Reggio Emilia.
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Welcome to the show, Mateo.
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Awesome, so we are really excited to have you here.
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We actually booked you a whole month in advance.
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I've been looking forward to this.
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Yeah, because you're coming by way of some of the folks at the Mlad conference.
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And for those who don't know, I'm a I've mentioned this.
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Mlad stands for machine learning and data science summit.
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It used to be in person I think now it's entirely virtual for the foreseeable future.
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Uh, but that why I attended M lads in 2016 summer of 2016 and it was uh, it was life altering like I don't say that.
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Lightly so.
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So Microsoft does amazing work in the machine learning and data science space.
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Very much cutting edge stuff very much I.
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I wouldn't say under the radar, but Microsoft does not do a great job putting its own horn, so we're very excited for you to come on Mateo and talk about this little project that you're working on.
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And what is the is it have a code name or what?
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What is it called?
00:05:22 Matteo
Hummingbird should the code name is actually I'm in.
00:05:26 Matteo
Don't have any specific internal names for.
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This for this.
00:05:28 Frank
OK, what what is GL stand for?
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That was my that was my first question.
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When I saw your bio.
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Uh is for Gray system lamp and is the after Jim Gray which.
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Oh, OK.
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Is putting award yeah?
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OK.
00:05:46 Matteo
So these are the search lab after this name yeah and use within the Azure data organization.
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Oh, interesting.
00:05:53 Frank
And uhm, So what?
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What what cool stuff does Hummingbird...
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