Ben Lorica, Author at Gradient Flow

One simple chart: Air Travel in the US

Based on newly released numbers from the TSA, air travel was down 51.6% in March 2020 compared to March 2019. Moreover, air travel was down 92% over the last seven days of March 2020 (compared to the same period in 2019)! Subscribe to our Newsletter: We also publish a popular newsletter where we share highlightsContinue reading “One simple chart: Air Travel in the US”

What Is a Lakehouse?

by Ben Lorica, Michael Armbrust, Ali Ghodsi, Reynold Xin and Matei Zaharia. [This post originally appeared on the Databricks blog.] Over the past few years at Databricks, we’ve seen a new data management paradigm that emerged independently across many customers and use cases: the lakehouse. In this post we describe this new paradigm and itsContinue reading “What Is a Lakehouse?”

Books I enjoyed in 2019

Here are nonfiction books I enjoyed reading in 2019. Not all of these books were released this year, although most them are 2019 releases. I read many of these using Apple Books on my iPad but I’ve also gotten back to scouring thrift stores and used bookstores (where I continue to get some amazing bargains).Continue reading “Books I enjoyed in 2019”

The Road to Software 2.0

It’s clear that AI can and will have a big influence on how we develop software. By Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica. [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] Roughly a year ago, we wrote “What machine learning means for software development.” In that article, we talked about Andrej Karpathy’s concept of SoftwareContinue reading “The Road to Software 2.0”

Introducing the Data Exchange

After five years (and 136 episodes) of podcasting under another banner, I am happy to announce the launch of a new independent bi-weekly podcast focused on data, machine learning, and AI: The Data Exchange thedataexchange.media Subscribe: iTunes, Android, Spotify, Stitcher, and RSS I want this to be more than just a podcast but a whole community to help peopleContinue reading “Introducing the Data Exchange”

A world of DeepFakes

We need to remember that creating fakes is an application, not a tool — and that a malicious applications are not the whole story. By Ben Lorica and Mike Loukides. [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] Deepfakes have been very much in the news for the past two years. It’s timeContinue reading “A world of DeepFakes”

The Data Show

Ben Lorica previously founded and hosted a biweekly podcast called the O’Reilly Data Show. Episode 136 marked the end of Ben’s run as host. It was a series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificialContinue reading “The Data Show”