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Thushan Ganegedara
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Thushan is a seasoned ML practitioner with 4+ years of experience in the industry. Currently he is a senior machine learning engineer at Canva; an Australian startup that founded the online visual design software, Canva, serving millions of customers. His efforts are particularly concentrated in the search and recommendations group working on both visual and textual content. Prior to Canva, Thushan was a senior data scientist at QBE Insurance; an Australian Insurance company. Thushan was developing ML solutions for use-cases related to insurance claims. He also led efforts in developing a Speech2Text pipeline there. He obtained his PhD specializing in machine learning from the University of Sydney in 2018.
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What is TensorFlow?

In Chapter 1, Introduction to Natural Language Processing, we briefly discussed what TensorFlow is. Now let’s take a closer look at it. TensorFlow is an open source, distributed numerical computation framework released by Google that is mainly intended to alleviate the painful details of implementing a neural network (for example, computing derivatives of the weights of the neural network). TensorFlow takes this a step further by providing efficient implementations of such numerical computations using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), which is a parallel computational platform introduced by NVIDIA (for more information on CUDA, visit https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2012/09/10/what-is-cuda-2/). The Application Programming Interface (API) of TensorFlow at https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/all_symbols shows that TensorFlow provides thousands of operations that make our lives easier.

TensorFlow was not developed overnight. This is a result...

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Thushan Ganegedara

Thushan is a seasoned ML practitioner with 4+ years of experience in the industry. Currently he is a senior machine learning engineer at Canva; an Australian startup that founded the online visual design software, Canva, serving millions of customers. His efforts are particularly concentrated in the search and recommendations group working on both visual and textual content. Prior to Canva, Thushan was a senior data scientist at QBE Insurance; an Australian Insurance company. Thushan was developing ML solutions for use-cases related to insurance claims. He also led efforts in developing a Speech2Text pipeline there. He obtained his PhD specializing in machine learning from the University of Sydney in 2018.
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