58: “Swift for Machine Learning”, with special guests Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta

John is joined by Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta from the Swift for TensorFlow team at Google, to talk about the work they’re doing adopting and adapting Swift for Machine Learning. What makes Swift a good fit for this task, how might the language need to evolve to support this type of use cases even better, and much more.

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Links

• Paige on Twitter
• Brennan on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Swift for TensorFlow
• Keras
• AlexNet
• Cloud TPUs
• dynamicCallable
• dynamicMemberLookup
• Google Colab
• Jupyter Notebooks
• fast.ai
• SwiftPlot
• SwiftAI
• “Basics of Swift for Deep Learning” video course
• AlphaGo Zero
• Monte Carlo tree search
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk