In episode eleven of season two, we talk about the machine learning toolkit Spark and answer a listener question about the difference between Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). Plus, we speak with Sinead Williamson from The University of Texas at Austin.

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