Episodes

  • YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ChaiTimeDataScience

    Learn more about H2O's Hydrogen Torch app here: https://h2o.ai/platform/ai-cloud/make/hydrogen-torch/

    In this "episode", Sanyam Bhutani will host the the world's top kagglers and best data scientists to learn and debate the best practises for training ml models.   We will learn from their experience of having won multiple competitions and built many incredible products at H2O: what are the best practises for taming your ml model   

    Panelists:

    Dmitry Gordeev: 

    https://www.kaggle.com/dott1718 

    https://twitter.com/dott1718

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-gordeev-50116023/?originalSubdomain=at

    Gabor Fodor: 

    https://www.kaggle.com/gaborfodor 

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/gábor-fodor-6a081548/?originalSubdomain=hu

    Pascal Pfeiffer: 

    https://www.kaggle.com/ilu000

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascal-pfeiffer/

    Philipp Singer: 

    https://www.kaggle.com/philippsinger

    https://twitter.com/ph_singer

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippsinger/

    Yauhen Babakhin:

    https://www.kaggle.com/ybabakhin

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/yauhenbabakhin/

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://www.kaggle.com/init27

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanyambhutani/

    A show for interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers hosted by Sanyam.

  • Channel: http://youtube.com/c/ChaiTimeDataScience/

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    In this Episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Amed Coulibaly about his journey and reflection on reaching Kaggle Competitions Grandmaster.

    They also understand his team's 3rd place solution to recently ended Feedback competition

    Links:

    Solution: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/feedback-prize-english-language-learning/discussion/369609

    Follow:

    Amed Coulibaly:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Amedprof

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amed-coulibaly-94150610a/

    Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/amedprof

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanyambhutani/

    Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/init27

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers, and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

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  • The show becomes "Coffee Time Data Science" for a one-time special episode! The genesis for this interview was this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1503920390447730690

    Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_6nQBsE4pU

    Links from the show:

    fastai Course: https://course.fast.ai

    How not to do fastai: https://medium.com/@init_27/how-not-to-do-fast-ai-or-any-ml-mooc-3d34a7e0ab8c

    Meta Learning Book: https://radekosmulski.gumroad.com/l/learn_deep_learning

    Rachel’s advice on Blogging: https://medium.com/@racheltho/why-you-yes-you-should-blog-7d2544ac1045

    In the frame:

    Jeremy Howard:

    https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    OUTLINE:

    0:00 - Intro

    2:40 - Reaching Kaggle Grandmaster Tier

    4:46 - Current Work

    6:30 - University Education

    12:00 - Signing up for fastai

    15:49 - Failures with fastai

    18:29 - Tenacity

    23:40 - Content Creation

    33:10 - Sharing your work

    36:09 - Educational Content

    41:49 - Failing Google AI Residency

    46:34 - Starting the podcast

    48:19 - Question to Jeremy

    52:40 - Thank you

  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/qObfeWYbrPM

    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews the hosts from AI Today Podcast: Kathleen Walch, Ronald Schmelzer

    They talk about their journey into AI, creating AI Content, and the AI Today Podcast.

    Links:

    AI Today Podcast: https://www.cognilytica.com/aitoday/

    Cognalytica: https://www.cognilytica.com

    Follow:

    Kathleen Walch:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/kath0134

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-walch-50185112/

    Ronald Schmelzer:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/rschmelzer

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rschmelzer/

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/W3aWEXqIkWk

    Blog Overview: http://sanyambhutani.com/interview-with-the-nvidia-acm-recsys-2021-winning-team

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    In this Episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews a panel from the ACM RecSys Winning competition team at NVIDIA.

    They explain why are RecSys systems such a hard problem, how can GPUs accelerate these, how do we productize such solutions.

    The team also does a ground basic to a complete overview of their solution. They understand the team's approaches to the problem, how did they arrive at the solution, and the tricks that they discovered and very generously shared in this interview

    Links:

    Interview with Even Oldridge: https://youtu.be/-WzXIV8P_Jk

    Interview with Chris Deotte: https://youtu.be/QGCvycOXs2M

    Open Source Solution: https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/competitions/tree/main/RecSys2021_Challenge

    Paper Link: https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/competitions/blob/main/RecSys2021_Challenge/GPU-Accelerated-Boosted-Trees-and-Deep-Neural-Networks-for-Better-Recommender-Systems.pdf

    Follow:

    Benedikt Schifferer:

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedikt-schifferer/

    Bo Liu:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/boliu0

    Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/boliu0

    Chris Deotte:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisDeotte

    Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte

    Even Oldridge

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/even_oldridge

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/even-oldridge/

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers, and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani. 

  • Personal Note: This was a huge honor for me to meet Harrison and have him on the podcast!

    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews THE SentDex about his journey as an entrepreneur, YouTube content creator, Educator and Author.

    They talk about his journey on and off the platform and the R&D that happens behind the scenes for the incredible videos that we get to see.

    They also discuss how the NVIDIA DGX A-100 box has been helping Harrison for the few months of usage. Thanks to our friends at NVIDIA for helping make this conversation happen!

    Link:

    NNFS.io: https://nnfs.io

    DGX-A100: https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/data-center/dgx-a100/

    Interview with Charlie Boyle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUnKGD90uI

    Follow:

    Harrison Kinsley:

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sentdex

    Website: https://hkinsley.com

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hkinsley/

    Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/sentdex/

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    #Python #machinelearning #SentDex

  • Personal Note: I'm so happy to release a new interview after a really long break!

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Clair Sullivan, Graph Data Science Advocate at Neo4j

    They talk about Clair's journey from taking up the challenge and becoming an engineer to later transitioning from academia back into the industry

    Links: 

    Neo4j: https://neo4j.com

    NODES 2021: https://neo4j.com/event/nodes-2021/

    Follow:

    Clair Sullivan:

    https://twitter.com/CJLovesData1

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-clair-sullivan-09914342/

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

  • Personal Note: Season 1 Finale had to be my interview with Emil. Huge thanks everyone for being a part of this journey!

    Video Version: https://youtu.be/ENbKecYgITA

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Emil Wallner, Artist in Residence at Google.

    They talk about Emil's journey from being a kind of a village in Africa to travelling and transitioning into AI.

    They discuss Emil's tweet storms, his self-taught journey and beyond

    Link: Meta thread to all of Emil's tweetstorms: https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1/status/1278036597523406849?s=20

    Follow:

    Emil Wallner:

    https://twitter.com/EmilWallner

    https://github.com/emilwallner

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Personal Note: This was one my favourite Kaggle related interviews. Personally, I found Andrada's journey to be very relatable.

    Video Version: https://youtu.be/nshTx_EfRKU

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Andrada Olteanu about her journey to transitioning into Data Science and Learning on Kaggle.

    They discuss the struggles of learning something new and how to approach Kaggle.

    Follow:

    Andrada Olteanu:

    https://twitter.com/andradaolteanuu

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrada-olteanu-3806a2132/

    https://www.kaggle.com/andradaolteanu

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/xDhVLLc4pUk

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Laura Leal Taixe.

    They talk about Laura's journey into Academia and her research at the Dynamic Vision & Learning Group.

    Follow:

    Laura Leal Taixé:

    https://twitter.com/lealtaixe

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQVCsX1CcZQr0oUMZg6szIQ

    https://dvl.in.tum.de/team/lealtaixe/

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/xbcGj_mtTB0

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews the creator of PyTorch Lightning: William Falcon

    They talk about William's journey from being in the military to the financial world, learning how to code and eventually transitioning into Data Science.

    They discuss the PyTorch lightning story and William's research, Grid.ai

    Links:

    Grid.ai: https://www.grid.ai

    PyTorch Lightning: https://www.pytorchlightning.ai

    Blog: https://www.williamfalcon.com/accessible-ai-blog

    Follow:

    William Falcon:

    https://twitter.com/_willfalcon

    https://www.williamfalcon.com

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/ODSgwUAzJj4

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Katy Warr from Roke Manor Research, author of Strengthening DNNs book.

    They talk about Katy's journey into AI, her work at Roke and the story of the book.

    They also talk about Fooling AI, DNNs, adversarial attacks and how to prevent these

    Book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/strengthening-deep-neural/9781492044949/

    Follow:

    Katy Warr:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/katywarr

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Video version: https://youtu.be/g_lBMheQcpw

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Kaggle Grandmaster and Data Scientist: Laura Fink.

    They talk about Laura's journey from Physics into Data Science, her journey into creating the amazing storytelling notebooks on Kaggle and general tips & suggestions to Kaggle Noobs

    Follow:

    Laura Fink:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-f-ab2010170

    https://www.kaggle.com/allunia

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

    Intro track:

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/-Iem6tUnm2A

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews co-founder & CEO of MonteCarlo Data: Barr Moses.

    MonteCarlo Data is trying to solve the issues of reliability and downtime of data.

    They talk a lot about Data Downtime, observability and all of the issues that originate out of having "bad" data or issues with data.

    They also talk about Barr's journey into Data.

    Follow:

    https://www.montecarlodata.com

    Barr Moses:

    https://twitter.com/bm_datadowntime

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/PaaKh7Tpzxg

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Dr David Luebke, VP of Graphics Research at NVIDIA.

    They talk about the fascinating world of Graphics and the research that goes on behind the scenes. Ray-Tracing and its promise.

    They also discuss NVIDIA's recent improvements in GANs: "Training GANs with Limited Data" paper

    Links:

    Interview with Bryan Catanzzaro: https://youtu.be/guJT5GOiNjA

    Paper Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06676

    Follow:

    David Luebke:

    https://twitter.com/davedotluebke

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

    Intro track:

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/Ki3SiI0nzF8

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Senior CV Researcher at CTU: Torsten Sattler.

    Torsten's research interests span: 3D Computer Vision, Localization, AR, VR, self driving cars.

    Like all research conversations, this was really an insightful one

    They also dive into his recent research as a proxy to understanding how it Torsten approaches the search problems.

    Links:

    http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Schonberger_Semantic_Visual_Localization_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf

    https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/papers/Dusmanu_D2-Net_A_Trainable_CNN_for_Joint_Description_and_Detection_of_CVPR_2019_paper.pdf

    Follow:

    Torsten Sattler:

    https://twitter.com/sattlertorsten

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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    #GoogleAI #Research #MultiModal

  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/35Gd8bBDwdo

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews THE PROFESSOR, Zachary Mueller.

    This is Part 2 of the conversation and they discuss Zach's journey from learning fastai to actively contributing to it and moderating the forums.

    They also discuss Zach's blogposts, his course and learnings from a recent internship.

    Follow:

    Zachary Mueller:

    https://twitter.com/thezachmueller

    https://muellerzr.github.io/fastblog/

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmKoQOD8uBqsRS8XDdSgrlQ

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/2tLNfR2whio

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Dr. Arsha Nagrani.

    Arsha has been working as a researcher at the intersection of audio, video, or audio and computer vision. They try to uncover what the field is really about.

    She has also co organised challenges for problems in this domain.

    They talk talk about all of these works along with her approach to research.

    Links:

    Interview with Dima: https://youtu.be/GXqq_hj-UuY

    Follow:

    Arsha Nagrani:

    https://twitter.com/nagraniarsha

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/arsha-nagrani-601a726b

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

    Intro track:

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/2MT7bYZsiV4

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Ekaterina Kochmar: Lecturer and Researcher at Cambridge University, Co-Founder & CSO at Korbit.ai

    As you might know, Sanyam is a fan of learning to learn - The topic in general, they bring back the conversation in this episode. Ekaterina has been working on automated language teaching and assessment, which is using machine learning or different tools to augment teaching as an intelligent tutor to build intelligent systems for teaching different concepts for language, specifically English language, and even beyond.

    They have a deeper dive into this conversation discuss:

    - What does building a system like this take?

    - What research goes into it?

    - What are the interesting trends here?

    They also dive into Katrina's approach of research, and what does a research pipeline for her look like.

    Links:

    https://www.manning.com/books/getting-started-with-natural-language-processing

    Follow:

    Ekaterina Kochmar:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekaterina-kochmar-0a655b14/

    https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ek358/

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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  • Video Version: https://youtu.be/H0NfDIDcu84

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    In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews a founder from South Africa, of the ranks of Elon Musk's Genius, Founder & CEO at Numerai: Richard Craib

    They talk about Richard's journey into the world of Finance, Trading and Data Science.

    They also discuss the Numerai story, the hedge fund, the competition and recently announced signals, along with the "Master Plan"

    Links:

    Signals: https://signals.numer.ai

    https://medium.com/numerai/numerais-master-plan-1a00f133dba9

    Follow:

    Richard Craib:

    https://twitter.com/richardcraib

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardcraib/

    http://twitter.com/numerai

    Sanyam Bhutani:

    https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

    Blog: sanyambhutani.com

    About:

    https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

    A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

    You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

    Intro track:

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