Miron Vranješ Builder · Pilot · Husband

I'm Miron Vranješ (ME-rawn VRAHN-yesh). I work on new computing platforms, from the first Surface tablets, to HoloLens, to the AI glasses my team builds at Meta. Born in Sarajevo, grew up in Canada, studied Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I now live in Seattle with my wife and dog. I also like to build things.

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Teaching Neural Nets to Identify Planes and Discover Music Genres

02 Dec 2018 · 2 min read

I’ve been working on overhauling Facebook’s recommendation systems at work, but it’s mostly been at the product level. Over Thanksgiving I decided to get hands-on and see how far I could get with deep learning myself. There’s a ton of great tutorials on using Python and PyTorch these days, and I’m blown away by how accessible the state of the art has become. Both of these models were built and trained on my desktop PC.

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