His name is inscribed upon the bell when it was casted in 1858, thus the nickname Big Ben. He was the first commissioner of Public Works in London who was in charge of the construction of the Houses of Parliament, the building to which the tower is attached to. So where did “Big Ben” come from? Well, it is a nickname given to the bell and it came from Sir Benjamin Hall’s name. Oddly enough, the bell’s real name isn’t “Big Ben” either it’s called the Great Bell. So what people actually refer to when they say “Big Ben” is the bell inside the tower. But in 2012, the landmark was renamed the Elizabeth Tower to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. For hundreds of years, it used to be called, simply, the Clock Tower. That’s right – this famous London landmark isn’t officially named Big Ben. Big Ben isn’t actually the official name of the famous landmark. Photo Credit: © Colin via Wikimedia Commons.ġ. ![]() In the Performance track, Keith Winstein from Stanford University presented an intriguing and fun talk about creating new paradigms in networking, streaming, and cloud computing.Īnd then there was the brilliant closing keynote by Alasdair Allan: Partly a roast of the current large language models, partly a warning about the risks associated with generative AI, and (not ironically at all) amusingly embellished with slides generated mid-journey.London skyline with Big Ben and environs, including the London Eye, Portcullis House, Parliament Square, and St Margaret’s Church. Mehrnoosh Sameki delivered a super relevant talk on #responsibleai, showcasing some of the outstanding open-source work being done by Microsoft in the field: check this out!-> ??? Yannis Georgas shared concepts about digital twins and their ability to enable rapid prototyping, maintenance optimization, and business results. Hien Luu from DoorDash shared valuable insights on scaling and evolving MLOps. The "Emerging AI and ML Trends" track was on fire! Here are some of my highlights: It has been a fascinating third day at the QCon London, and I'm still processing all the amazing content! #PyDataSeattle #AI #DataScience #Innovation I'm also excited for the panels & keynotes by Eloisa E., Katrina Riehl, Holden Karau, Travis Oliphant, & Peter Wang! ? Fugue: Porting Python & Pandas Code to Spark, Dask, and Ray - Kevin Kho & Anthony Holten Building an ML Model Observability pipeline - Rajeev Prabhakar Demand forecasting models: building a market simulator - Pablo Alfaro (Go Pablo and Tryolabs! ?) ![]() Experimentation and the gold standard of data champions - Timothy Chan Computer Vision Landscape at Chegg - Sanghamitra Deb Deep Learning Model Interpretability for Computer Vision - Sumedh D. Python Anytime, Anywhere with Anaconda Notebooks - Sophia Yang, Ph.D. Open Source meets Enterprise: The right way - Natalia C. ![]() Explaining Explainable AI tools - Aditya Lahiri Particle Swarm Classification for Next-Gen Recommendation Engines - Eugene Ciurana ![]() Here are some talks I've added to my schedule so far: ? PyData Seattle is almost here, and I can't wait for the incredible lineup of talks and speakers! Covering a diverse range of AI topics, there's something for everyone.
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