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Joined August 2025
AI that understands and generates speech directly. In this episode of Executive Code, Julian Salazar (Google DeepMind) joins Kirim to discuss WaveNet, Speech SSM, and what native speech means for the future of AI. youtu.be/h5fN55abB_c
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Can light bouncing off a wall show what’s hidden from view? 🎧 Full episode on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. #Photonics #LiDAR #AI #ComputerVision #Imaging
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Think of a laser hitting an object and bouncing back. That’s how we measure distance with light. 🎧 Full episode on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. #LiDAR #Photonics #AI #ComputerVision #Research
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How can a camera measure single particles of light? 🎧 Full episode on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. #Photonics #LiDAR #AI #Optics #Research
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Some AI models can predict efficiently but resist simple explanation. In this episode of Executive Code, Sanyam Agarwal and Oliver Broadrick discuss what happens when inference works—but representation fails. youtube.com/watch?v=qM9O6V_t…
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Can AI learn to play it safe? In the new Executive Code episode, @Arnobg32 (NJIT) explains how risk-aware reinforcement learning adds risk budgets to make AI safer for robots, drones, cars, and beyond. 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=UTiI-ELi…
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What if you could rebuild the world just by tracking photons? @anagh_malik 🎧 Full episode on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. #Photonics #LiDAR #AI #ComputerVision #Research
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That’s exactly what we dive into on the new Executive Code episode with @anagh_malik (PhD @ UofT, intern @ Apple). From capturing photons at the speed of light to seeing around corners — it’s sci-fi made real. 🔗youtu.be/YS4S_h_vIk4?si=8ZQb…
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What if your phone could run an LLM? Not in the cloud. Not on clusters. Right there—locally. That’s the promise of MODEGPT, the compression method we break down with Abhishek Patel in the new Executive Code. youtu.be/UwQQr4qqEJ4?si=zUp3…
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We’re constantly told that large language models need massive infrastructure. But what if they don’t? On this episode, we sat down with @mohammad_mmzf, author of SLiM—a new method for compressing LLMs without retraining and without major accuracy loss. youtu.be/HFS7Yc_TRWs?feature…
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