Karl Rosaen has been pushing the edge of software engineering since his early work on Google's Android phones, and his recent leap of faith into the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence is no exception. Karl is a senior research engineer at the U of M and Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicle at the University of Michigan. Karl took a learning sabbatical in the summer of 2016 to focus on machine learning and before that he was head of product and engineering at Food52.com. Karl and his brother Alex host the Brosaen Detroit Pistons Podcast, where they regularly geek out on all things Detroit Pistons. In addition to the podcast, which you can find on iTunes, you can find Karl’s resources for machine learning and his research journal at KarlRosaen.com, or find him on Twitter and Github at krosaen. During our hour long talk, Karl and I talked about his work on the then top-secr