· Max Marion

I’m Max. My main claim to fame is doing machine learning in industry, first at KUNGFU.AI applying ML as an engineer, and now at cohere.for.ai doing research. My work has covered computer vision, natural language processing, audio, and unsupervised learning. Nowadays I work on data pruning at scale.

I play ultimate frisbee on Riverside, enjoy backpacking where I can forget about the anthropocene, have spent a whopping <REDACTED> hours playing Dota 2 (go zai, go rtz, go cr1t), lift, and hang out in my backyard with my cat. I grew up here in Austin, went to school in Los Angeles, then moved back home.

poor attempts at professionalism here

worst takes here

code here

my str8 up email (remove the hightech captcha): m m a r i o n 5 3 8 @ < r o b o t s g o a w a y > @ g m a i l

Here’s a list of the cooler projects I’ve worked on, during which my role always fell under “make the neural network work”:

an algorithm to judge the price of collectibles like Pokemon cards, baseball cards, or rare coins
a computer vision project identifying and pricing exterior damage on cars from cell phone photos
a model for processing ambient rainforest noise to find gunshots, chainsaws, and vehicles indicating poaching and logging
a system to scan insurance corpora to extract helpful sentences like “drug X is covered by plan Y under situation Z, but not situation A”
a CTR (Click Through Rate) predictor for crowd groaning noises ads
a FOD detector for runway radar scans (detects debris on your runway that’d destroy your fancy plane engines)
A number of “information extractors” for large datastores of pdfs
the algorithm that judges SXSW speaker applications alongside human judges
and more! that are less interesting and/or slightly secret