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Gridspace’s lecture series on building / extending LLM’s for MIT IAP: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6owWFYBB-AqnqbfPOudH3xGu...

References in the video description.

Full series is at iap.gridspace.com and the youtube playlist is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJk_RQ_UaE&list=PL6owWFYBB-...

The schedule for the Gridspace IAP program: January 9 - Sound, Acoustics and Voice January 11 - DSP and Information Theory January 12 - Machine Learning and the JAX Library January 16 - Morphology and Words January 18 - Syntax, Semantics, Embeddings and Lexers January 20 - Large Language Models (LLMs) & InstructGPT January 23 - ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition January 25 - TTS: Text to Speech January 26 - DS: Dialog Systems January 30 - Emotion, Dialog Acts, Personality and Lying February 1 - Conversation Design and AI Ethics February 3 - Deploying ML and NLP in the Real World

The schedule for the Gridspace IAP program: January 9 - Sound, Acoustics and Voice January 11 - DSP and Information Theory January 12 - Machine Learning and the JAX Library January 16 - Morphology and Words January 18 - Syntax, Semantics, Embeddings and Lexers January 20 - Large Language Models (LLMs) & InstructGPT January 23 - ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition January 25 - TTS: Text to Speech January 26 - DS: Dialog Systems January 30 - Emotion, Dialog Acts, Personality and Lying February 1 - Conversation Design and AI Ethics February 3 - Deploying ML and NLP in the Real World

To sign up to watch live, there's a form on iap.gridspace.com.

First week is on sound and DSP. Second week on NLP and language. Third on speech ML models. And fourth week on applications. There's a signup google form on the site.

Gridspace is looking for a Security Lead to manage compliance and security operations. The candidate should be organized, thorough, and have a strong technical background in IT, systems administration, and/or network engineering. Most importantly, candidates should have a desire to work with a world-class engineering team to secure massively scaled cloud services.

About Gridspace We are machine learning startup focused on long-form conversational speech. We process over a billion minutes of speech data per year.

Technical responsibilities will include:

Become the primary security expert for multiple product lines, and act as the point of contact for engineering and security. Support engineering with implementing security fixes, ensuring security scanners are utilized correctly, and develop strategies to proactively secure the architecture. Help to automate common security tasks and patterns. Research and analyze the latest capabilities of specific Information Security (e.g. Cloud services, encryption, PKI etc.) and IT technologies (e.g. operating systems, networks, storage, virtualization etc.). Manage the IT infrastructure including endpoint management, single sign-on, anti-malware, event notifications, etc. Assist co-workers in maintaining security of their devices and processes. Operational responsibilities will include:

Familiarize yourself with common private sector security standards including PCI, HITRUST, and SOC2. Act as the primary contact with all security compliance audits and client due diligence questionnaires. Work directly with partner teams to understand our corporate infrastructure and business operations solutions and serve as subject matter expert to identify key risks to our security posture. Create threat models for both external and insider threats that directly influence designs, risk tolerance, and roadmaps. Maintain the schedule of daily, weekly, monthly, and annual compliance related tasks. Lead the physical security efforts of Gridspace assets and properties. Run company-wide phishing tests, security awareness training, and regular status meetings with management. Manage and evaluate third party services and vendors. You have:

Strong technical aptitude with project management skills, capable of learning emerging products and creating plans to support the business Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, or distributed cloud-based environments Experience working in a high security and/or highly regulated industry. We would love to have you take the essentials of what you’ve learned and apply them to the unique challenges Gridspace faces Experience securing large Python codebases is a plus Experience managing a SIEM such as SumoLogic Experience with endpoint management and security such as JumpCloud and Crowdstrike Falcon is a plus Experience with performing or managing network and application penetration tests Experience achieving PCI, HITRUST, SOC2, or FedRAMP certifications are a plus Experience with managing outside vendors and customer relationships is a plus Military experience is a strong plus

If interested email hiring@gridspace.com

Or just use this: http://docs.gridspace.com/

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