Episode

Gradient Descent

· 47 mins

We sit down with Erik to discuss gradient descents and how understanding this can lead to demystifying machine learning. We talk about the value of knowing how things work under the covers, as well as maths, functional programming, and many other topics, including why he chose Kotlin, and what he likes and dislikes of the language

About Erik Meijer

Erik Meijer has been trying to bridge the ridge between theory and practice for most of his career. He is perhaps best known for his work on, amongst others, the Haskell, C#, Visual Basic, and Dart programming languages, as well as for his contributions to LINQ and the Reactive Framework (Rx). Most recently he is on a quest to make uncertainty a first-class citizen in mainstream programming languages

Show Notes

Exposed 1.0 and Beyond

The Kotlin ecosystem is full of powerful tools and frameworks — and in this episode of Talking Kotlin, we're diving deep into Exposed, JetBrains' Kotlin SQL library, which recently reached its 1.0 release. Sebastian and Márton sit down with Chantal from the Exposed team to explore what Exposed is, where it came from, and how it helps developers work with databases in a Kotlin-first way. Continue reading

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