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Jan Xu - Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Deep Render #14

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Our guest today is Jan Xu, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Deep Render, a startup developing the next generation of compression technology using Deep Learning. This episode is a special one since Jan and I studied Civil Engineering at Imperial College London together between 2015 and 2019. In our conversation, we first talk about our bachelor degree at Imperial and how Jan made the transition from Engineering to Data Science and AI. He explains how he learned to code, the first machine ...

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