Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

Recently the company stewarding the open source library scikit-learn announced their seed funding. Also, OpenAI released “o1” with new behavior in which it pauses to “think” about complex tasks. Chris and Daniel take some time to do their own thinking about o1 and the contrast to the scikit-learn ecosystem, which has the goal to promote “data science that you own.”

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Probabl seed funding announcement
• OpenAI o1 announcement
• Purdue Data4Good competition
• MLOps Community homepage and Slack workspace
• Latent Space homepage and Discord server

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1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Assembly AI (00:00:48)

https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=practicalai&utm_medium=podcast

3. Filtering throigh the noise (00:04:21)

4. Probabl seed funding (00:10:33)

5. scikit-learn (00:13:57)

6. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:18:01)

https://fly.io/

7. OpenAI o1 (00:21:29)

8. Latency vs reasoning (00:25:49)

9. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:36:33)

https://speakeasy.com/

10. o1's place in workflows (00:37:30)

11. Probabl's manifesto (00:43:34)

12. Learning resources (00:46:35)

13. Outro (00:49:05)