William Benton
William Benton is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he builds tools to help make machine learning systems easier to develop, more understandable, and more reliable. In previous roles, Will’s responsibilities included establishing and improving the expected value of accelerated data science frameworks for everyday practitioners, leading teams of data scientists and engineers, contributing to many open-source communities, and developing novel static analyses for real-world software.
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Sunset for the Wild West: Making ML disciplined by default
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Many novel machine learning techniques started as clever hacks that just happened to work, but the demands of building real systems can be at odds with this creative culture. Learn about our open-source stack to improve quality-of-life for ML researchers and infrastructure teams alike — and how their concerns aren't as different as you might think.