At the time of the conversation, Melisa Russak was a lead research scientist at Writer. Her story of independently rediscovering fundamental machine learning algorithms aired on Chain of Thought as a crossover from Writer’s Humans of AI podcast, a look at curiosity-driven research and accidental discovery.
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The Accidental Algorithm | Humans of AI Crossover with Writer's Melisa Russak
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Ryder took the opposite approach. No customer data, period. To most people in the industry, this would seem like trying to build a car without wheels. But for someone like Melissa, who had already reinvented algorithms from scratch twice, this wasn't a limitation. It was an invitation to innovate. So actually the first model that we created was to generate the data.
The Accidental Algorithm | Humans of AI Crossover with Writer's Melisa Russak