Strange Loop Chat with África Periañez about predictive models and benshi.ai @StrangeLoopConf
Strange Loop Chat with África Periañez about predictive models and benshi.ai @StrangeLoopConf
Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this episode, Alex Miller chats with former Strange Loop speaker África Periañez about her new company https://benshi.ai. África has worked at a wide variety of companies from CERN to the German weather service to gaming to fashion, creating predictive modeling systems.

África's Strange Loop talk mentioned in the show:
- (2019) "From Video Games to Fashion: a Machine Learning Journey", youtu.be/YgMxzMvjIQc

You can find out more about Strange Loop at https://thestrangeloop.com​​.


Chapters
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00:00 Intro
00:40 Commonalities between CERN, weather prediction, gaming, fashion
05:56 Making predictions
07:38 benshi.ai
10:48 Accounting for bias
14:00 State of the art
17:19 Changing behavior
20:52 On the benshi name
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Strange Loop Chat with África Periañez about predictive models and benshi.ai

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