Josh Baer

Machine Learning Platform Lead @ Spotify

[Spotify Engineering @SpotifyEng]

Build a robust Ray platform ✅. Make its developer experience frictionless ✅. Done, but how did we do it? #MachineLearning engineers, @daikeshi and @davidxia_, will be giving you the inside scoop at #RaySummit on 9/19. Register to watch it live here: https://t.co/IH08h6LwC0

[The Pragmatic Engineer @Pragmatic_Eng]

What is Backstage and why are companies like Netflix, Grab, Wealthsimple, QuintoAndar, Wayfair and hundreds of other tech organizations adopting it?

In this week's subscriber-only article, we went deep into Backstage, and alternatives to it: https://t.co/54dPV4Sbd3

[Gustav Söderström @GustavS]

Pretty proud of the @Spotify team for this one – a generative, expressive and realistic AI DJ that delivers a personalized lineup of music and commentary to each user, for all those times you don’t know exactly what you want to hear. Hope you like it! 🎧 https://t.co/4PwXKUW0Cl

[Spotify Engineering @SpotifyEng]

"Our goal for Spotify’s ML Platform has always been to create a seamless user experience for ML practitioners who want to take an ML application from development to production..."

And so, we introduced @raydistributed to our @Spotify ecosystem. https://t.co/RSIhGIgEIk

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

Huge shoutout to @DivitaVohra @daikeshi and the rest of the team for driving this work to success for the last year. Their enthusiasm and effort drove major improvements on our underserved Research users, and some huge ML wins!
🚀 🎶

[Divita Vohra @DivitaVohra]

I’m so proud of the work we’re doing at Spotify, and even more proud of the team I get to grow with through it all.

Check out how we’re unleashing ML innovation at Spotify! @daikeshi @davidxia_ @pchandarr

BIG shoutout to the @anyscalecompute team for being awesome partners.

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

👀 🇯🇵!

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Penalties are needed to decide this Round of 16 clash 👀

#FIFAWorldCup | #Qatar2022

[Tony Jebara @TonyJebara]

I’m at #NeurIPS22 to present at the Offline RL Workshop / the RL4RealLife Workshop and to check out LLM work which Spotify is rapidly investing in, see you in New Orleans!

[Mounia Lalmas @mounialalmas]

I will be attending @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2022 my 1st time at this conference. Happy to meet, and talk about research & machine learning @Spotify @SpotifyEng @SpotifyResearch. We are also expanding our expertise in large language models, see the role below.
https://t.co/TgvrFoGlBW

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

🎶One of these things is not like the others🎶

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Good post. A lot of interest atm in wiring up LLMs to a wider compute infrastructure via text I/O (e.g. calculator, python interpreter, google search, scratchpads, databases, ...). The LLM becomes the "cognitive engine" orchestrating resources, its thought stack trace in raw text

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

Bad idea riding a @CitiBikeNYC to work during cold weather.

And all those “open spots” are broken docks

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

@mattnworb on web, you get this popup.

Somewhere there's some dude named Tom Averifil or something that's getting really frustrated they can't use their name.

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

Last month, @DivitaVohra and @polarfoxgirl gave a pair of great talks at our Spotify office for the MLOps meetup. Check out the videos in this thread

[MLOps Community @mlopscommunity]

Catch up on the freshest MLOps advice from Spotify's very own @DivitaVohra, Senior Product Manager and Olga Nikonova, Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer hosted by @Spotify!

You don’t want to miss out on this!

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

https://t.co/BYZrTgpNrQ

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

@bennstancil This kinda sounds like how prioritization is done today but with a lot of extra steps, tbh.

A lighter weight version that seems promising: https://t.co/sRONNObQK6

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

@Jiminy_Kirket @normconf If I remember correctly you created the data mess. Not mesh. Close though. Everyone knows the data mesh was invented by Al Gore.

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

@mipsytipsy @lizthegrey We (Spotify) have dedicated internal platform marketing folks that borders devrel? and some groups have dedicated engagement teams, but I’d say that role is largely driven by the Platform PMs w/ engineering partners.

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

@davidpoblador @SpotifyCares sorry @davidpoblador, guess you have to come back now 😄

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

@Jiminy_Kirket For a week, my phone's slack had a phantom unread thread notification that led me to reinstall the apps on phone/mac.

It's a disease (Shift+Escape on desktop is the cure)

[Josh Baer @jbx____]

My talk from @strangeloop_stl is out. It’s been on my conference bucket list for some time. If it’s on yours - next year is the last one!

[Strange Loop Conf @strangeloop_stl]

"Powering Spotify's Audio Personalization Platform" by Josh Baer @j6aer from Strange Loop 2022 https://t.co/qjG3yw2oeC