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The Test Set by Posit · May 18 · 45 min

The Wonder-Driven Builder — with Paige Bailey

Paige Bailey is a developer relations engineering lead at Google DeepMind. She's a geophysicist-turned-AI-engineer who was once told by her professors that building open-source libraries was a waste of time. We talk about her path from planetary science to TensorFlow, why statisticians have a hidden edge in the age of AI, and what it means to be a curious generalist when the cost of building software is approaching zero. Bonus: installing solar-powered silent-film birdhouses as street art in San Francisco. What's inside From planetary science to TensorFlow, before it was GPU-capable Geophysicists as early GPU adopters The professors who said open-source wasn’t “real science” Building silent-film birdhouses as San Francisco street art Hiding Gemini API tests inside whimsical side projects The right-tool-for-the-job case for mixing AI models Why “taste” is the skill that matters when code costs nothing

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Paige Bailey is a developer relations engineering lead at Google DeepMind. She's a geophysicist-turned-AI-engineer who was once told by her professors that building open-source libraries was a waste of time. We talk about her path from planetary science to TensorFlow, why statisticians have a hidden edge in the age of AI, and what it means to be a curious generalist when the cost of building software is approaching zero. Bonus: installing solar-powered silent-film birdhouses as street art in San Francisco.

What's inside

  • From planetary science to TensorFlow, before it was GPU-capable
  • Geophysicists as early GPU adopters
  • The professors who said open-source wasn’t “real science”
  • Building silent-film birdhouses as San Francisco street art
  • Hiding Gemini API tests inside whimsical side projects
  • The right-tool-for-the-job case for mixing AI models
  • Why “taste” is the skill that matters when code costs nothing

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