>> Announcer: Live from Los Angeles. It's theCUBE covering Open Source Summit North America 2017. Brought to you by, the Linux Foundation and Red Hat. >> Hello everyone, welcome back. Our live coverage, theCUBE's live coverage, of the Open Source Summit in North America, it's a part of the Linux Foundation. I'm John Furrier your host, with Stu Miniman our co-host. Our next guest is Tanmay Bakshi, who is an IBM honorary cloud advisor, algorithmist, former CUBE alumni. Great to see you. >> Thank you very much! Glad to be here! >> You get taller every year. It was what, three years ago, two years ago? >> I believe yeah, two years ago, Interconnect 2016. >> IBM show... doing a lot of great stuff. You're an IBM VIP, you're doing a lot of work with them. IBM Champion. >> Thank you >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> What's new? You're pushing any code today? >> Definitely! Now today, getting ready for my BoF that I've got tonight, it's been absolutely great. I've been working on a lot of new projects that I'm going to be talking about today and tomorrow at my keynote. Like I've been working on AskTanmay, or course you know, Interconnect 2016, very first time I presented AskTanmay. Since then, a lot has changed, I've incorporated real, deep learning algorithms, custom, with tensorflow. Into AskTanmay, AskTanmay now thinks about what it's actually looking at, using Watson as well, it's really interesting. And of course, new projects that I'm working on, including DeepSPADE, which actually, basically helps online communities, to detect, and of course report and flag spam, from different websites. For example, Stack Overflow, which I'm working on right now. >> So you're doing some deep learning stuff >> Tanmay: Yes >> with IBM Watson, the team, everything else. >> Tanmay: Exactly, yes. >> What's the coolest thing you've worked on, since we last talked? (laughing) >> Well it would have to be a tie between AskTanmay, DeepSPADE, and advancement to the Cognitive Story. As you know, from last time, I've been working on lots of interesting projects, like with AskTanmay, some great new updates that you'll hear about today. DeepSPADE itself though, I'd like to get a little bit more into that. There's actually, I mean of course, everyone listening right now has used Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange at one point in their lives. And so, they've probably noticed that, a little bit, here and there, you'd see a spam message on Stack Overflow, on a comment or post. And of course there are methods to try and prevent spam on Stack Overflow, but they aren't very effective. And that's why a group of programmers, known as Charcoal SE, actually went ahead and started creating, basically this sweep to try and prevent spam on Stack Exchange. And they call it, SmokeDetector. And it helps them to find and remove spam on Stack Exchange. >> This is so good until it goes out, and the battery needs to be replaced, and you got to get on a chair. But this whole SmokeDetector, this is a real way they help create a good, healthy community. >> Yes, exactly. So, they try and basically find spam, report to moderators, and if enough alarms are set off, they try and report it, or flag it automatically, via other people's accounts. And so basically, what I'm trying to do is, I mean, a few weeks ago, when I found out about what they're doing, I found out that they use regular expressions to try and find spam. And so they have, you know, years of people gathering experience, they're experts in this field. And they keep, you know, adding more regular expressions to try and find spam. And since I, you know, am really really passionate about deep learning, I thought why not try and help them out, trying to augment this sort of SmokeDetector, with deep learning. And so, they graciously donated their data set to me, which has a good amount of training, training rows for me to actually train a deep learning system to classify a post between spam or non-spam. And you'll be hearing a lot more about the model architecture, the CNN plus GRU model, that I've got running in Keras, tonight during my BoF. >> Now, machine learning, could be a real benefit to spam detection, cause the patterns. >> Tanmay: Exactly. >> Spammers tend to have their own patterns, >> Tanmay: Exactly. >> as do bots. >> Tanmay: Yes, exactly, exactly. And eventually, you realize that hey, maybe we're not using the same words in every post, but there's a specific pattern of words, or specific type of word, that always appears in a spam message. And machine learning would help us combat against that. And of course, in this case, maybe we don't actually have a word, or a specific website, or a specific phone number, that would trigger a regular expression alarm. But in the context that this website appears, machine learning can tell us that, "hey, yeah, this is probably a spam post." There are lots of really interesting places where machine learning can tie in with this, and help out with the accuracy. In fact, I've been able to reach around 98% accuracy, and around 15 thousand testing rows. So, I'm very glad with the results so far, and of course, I'm continuing to do all this brand retuning and everything... >> Alright, so how old are you this year? I can't keep the numbers straight. Are you 13, 14? >> Well originally, Interconnect 2016, I was 12, but now I'm 13 years old, and I'm going to be 14 in October, October 16th. >> Okay, so you're knocking on 14? >> Tanmay: Uh, not just yet there, I'll be 14... >> So, Tanmay, you're 14, you're time's done, at this point. But, one of your missions, to be serious, is helping to inspire the next generation. Especially here, at the Open Source Summit, give us a preview of what we're going to see in your keynote. >> Sure, definitely. And now, as you mentioned, in fact, I actually have a goal. Which is really to reach out to and help 100 thousand aspiring coders along their journey, of learning to code, and of course then applying that code in lots of different fields. In fact I'm actually, already around 4,500 people there. Which, I'm very very excited about. But today, during my BoF, as I mentioned, I'm going to be talking a lot about the in-depth of the DeepSpade and AskTanmay projects I've been working on. But tomorrow, during my keynote, you'll be hearing a lot about generally all the projects that I've been working on, and how they're impacting lots of different fields. Like, healthcare, utility, security via artificial intelligence and machine learning. >> So, when you first talked to us about AskTanmay, it's been what almost 18 months, I think there. What's changed, what's accelerating? I hear you throw out things like Tensorflow, not something we were talking about two years ago. >> Tanmay: Yeah. >> What have been some of the key learnings you've had, as you've really dug into this? >> Sure, in fact, this actually something that I'm going to be covering tonight. And that is, that AskTanmay, you could say, that it's DNA, well, from AskMSR, that was made in 2002. And I took that, revived it, and basically made it into AskTanmay. In its DNA, there were specific elements, like for example, it really relies on data redundancy. If there's no data redundancy, then AskTanmay doesn't do well. If you were to ask it where it was, where's the Open Source Summit North America going to be held, it wouldn't answer correctly, because it's not redundant enough on the internet. It's mentioned once or twice, but not more than that. And so, I learned that it's currently very, I guess you could say naive how it actually understands the data that it's collecting. However, over the past, I'd say around six or seven months, I've been able to implement a BiDAF or Bi-Directional Attention Flow, that was created by Allen AI. It's completely open-source, and it uses something that's called a SQuAD data set, or Stanford Question and Answer Data Set. In order to actually take paragraphs and questions, and try to return answers as snippets from the paragraphs. And so again, integrating AskTanmay, this allows me to really reduce the data redundancy requirement, able to merge very similar answers to have, you know better answers on the top of the list, and of course I'm able to have it more smart, it's not as naive. It actually understands the content that it's gathering from search engines. For example, Google and Bing, which I've also added search support for. So again, a lot has changed, using deep learning but still, sort of the key-points of AskTanmay requires very little computational power, very very cross-platform, runs on any operating system, including iOS, Android, etc. And of course, from there, open-source completely. >> So how has your life changed, since all the, you've been really in the spotlight, and well-deserved I think. It's been great to have you On theCUBE multiple times, thanks for coming on. >> Thank you No, definitely of course. >> Dave Vallante was just calling. He wants to ask you a few questions himself. Dave, if you're watching, we'll get you on, just call right now. What's going on, what are you going to do when... Are you like happy right now? Are you cool with everything? Or is there a point where you say, "Hey I want to play a little bit with different tools", you want more freedom? What's going on? >> Well, you see, right now I'm very very excited, I'm very happy with what I'm doing. Because of course I mean, my life generally has changed quite a bit since last Interconnect, you could say. From Interconnect 2016 to 17, to now. Of course, since then, I've been able to go into lots of different fields. Not only am I working with general deep learning at IBM Watson, now I'm working with lots of different tools. And I'm working especially, in terms of like, for example Linux. What I've been doing with open-source and everything. I've been able to create, for example, AskTanmay now integrated Keras and tensorflow. DeepSpade is actually built entirely off of tensorflow and Keras. And now I've also been able to venture into lots of different APIs as well. Not just with IBM Watson. Also things like, we've got the Dandelion API. Which AskTanmay also relies off of Dandelion, providing text similarity services for semantic and syntactic text similarity. Which, again, we'll be talking about tonight as well. So, yeah, lot's has changed, and of course, with all this sort of, new stuff that I'm able to show, or new media for which I'm able to share my knowledge, for example, all these, you know CUBE, interviews I've been doing, and of course all these keynotes, I'm able to really spread my message about AI, why I believe it's not only our future, but also our present. Like, for example, I also mentioned this last time. If you were to just open up your phone right now, you already see that you're, half of your phone is powered by AI. It's detecting that hey you're at your home right now, you just drove back from work, and it's this time on this day, so you probably want to open up this application. It predicts that, and provides you with that. Apart from that, things like Siri, Google Now, these are all powered by AI, they're already an integral part of our lives. And of course, what they're going to be doing in our lives to come is just absolutely great. With like, healthcare, providing artificial communication ability for people who can't communicate naturally. I think it's going to be really really interesting. >> Tanmay, it's always great have you on theCUBE. Congratulations. >> Tanmay: Thank you very much. >> AskTanmay, good projects. Let's stay in touch, as we start to produce more collaboration, we'd love to keep promoting your work. Great job. And you're an inspiration to many. >> Tanmay: Thank you very much, glad to be here. >> Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Live coverage from the Open Source Summit's theCUBE, in Los Angeles. I'm John Furrer, Stu Miniman. We'll be back with more live coverage after short this break. (upbeat music)

(upbeat music) >> Narrator: Live from Las Vegas, it's theCube covering InterConnect 2017. Brought to you by IBM. >> Okay welcome back everyone. We're here live in Las Vegas the Mandalay Bay for IBM InterConnect 2017. This is the Cube coverage I'm John Furrier my cohost Dave Vellante, our next guest is our famous Cube alumni, Tanmay Bakshi welcome back to the Cube. Now you're a cognitive developer and your new business card as part of the Darwin Ecosystem says Algorithmist. >> Dave: Algorithmist. >> Algorithmist, yes. >> John: Welcome back. >> Thank you, I'm very glad to be back on theCube. And yes, of course, as I said, I'm working on many new projects with artificial intelligence, and, of course, IBM Watson. Including ones that are provided by Darwin Ecosystem. And of course, we're working on this really interesting project called A Cognitive Story, which you will be seeing more about on my talks on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Cognitive Story is basically this collaboration between IBM, Darwin Ecosystem, Not Rocket Science, and me. Basically we're working towards really using the power of cognitive in order to change people's lives in a positive way. That's what I'm doing at the Darwin Ecosystem, generally, with IBM Watson and AI. >> Last year, we had a great chat. I remember talking about algorithms, the software, super fun. What's changed in the past year? Give us the update on you. And, two, what's changed in the code? >> Definitely. >> What are some of the things you're working on? >> Yeah, sure. So, since last year, first of all, a lot has changed. A lot of new trends have emerged in the general topic of technology, like Cybersecurity, something that people are starting to take a lot more seriously now. With things like AI and IBM Watson starting to be incorporated in with that. And, of course, though, really from my side, what I've mainly been doing is not, I've actually started to work not only with IBM Watson's cognitive capabilities, and not only the cognitive capabilities provided by these services, but also my own custom services. Crowd by neural networks, and other machine learning algorithms. Like, just for example, A Cognitive Story is powered by my own custom coded neural networks. And that's why, of course, I've been given the designation of Algorithmist. Because I love to work with algorithms, fine tune them, and, of course, design them. So that's actually what's been going on for the past year. But mainly, I guess you could say now my real focus is on how we can use artificial intelligence and cognitive computing in order to first of all, amplify and really augment human capability, and, of course, how we can use it to change people's lives in a positive way. Especially in fields like health care, where we can save people's lives with this technology, where we can make people's lives easier with this technology. Like, just for example, what IBM Watson is doing, for people with Autism, and how it's helping them with the applications that it provides. What IBM Watson's doing for the elderly in India, with the new Gentoo Robot that IBM Watson is creating, and so much that Watson is doing with healthcare. That's really what I'm focused in, with cognitive computing in general. >> What are some of the algorithms that you've been working on? What's the intent? >> Sure, well, I've actually been working on a lot of different algorithms. Mainly in the AI space, and, of course, how we can create neural networks to understand brainwave patterns. And you'll be seeing more of that on Tuesday and Wednesday, with The Cognitive Story. But, I've also been working, of course, on algorithms that I've already created, as I said, AskTanmay, you probably remember that from last year, the NLQA system. I've been working more on AskTanmay, and, in fact, in June, in Developer Connective last year, I actually open-sourced AskTanmay. So, of course, I've been working on that, improving it. I'm about to release Version 3, which is really fun. And, of course, since it's open source, I love to share my knowledge with this code so that other people can learn from it and learn how to use this type of AI technology in their own applications, as well. >> As a young, next generation, mogul, software mogul that you'll soon be, you're already one now, but you're still young, you've got a lot more ways to go, but you're living in a great time because, I wish I could be your age right now, because machine learning is really hot right now. And it's growing because of the cloud. The cloud gives you scale and compute power, and there's also a cultural vibe going on around social good. So, talk about machine learning, what you're excited about there, specifically, and some of the things that you see, from your generation of developers around this desire to provide social good. >> Yeah, definitely. Well, I guess we should start off with, really, my main focus of interest, in fact, as you said, are really cloud computing, cognitive computing, and IOT. Because in their respective fields, they are the next level of computing. And, in fact, we're already starting to adopt them. Cloud computing's already been adopted on a huge scale. Cognitive computing, we're getting there. And IOT's, again, starting to be accepted by a lot of different people. >> And you might not even get a driver's license because by the time you get your driver's license there's going to be autonomous vehicles. >> Exactly, and so, of course, IOT's being used everywhere, and so is cloud computing and cognitive. So, really, what I've been focused on in the past year is, first of all, trying to get developers really interested in cognitive. But as you said, developers are really interested in doing social good with these technologies, and, just imagine this, what we're doing with The Cognitive Story right now is, we're basically, for example, I can't, of course, go into too much detail about this right now, yet, but we are basically taking this cognitive services and we're allowing people who don't have the natural ability to be able to express themselves, or communicate, or move in any way, really, to be able to express themselves, and communicate their decisions, and communicate their emotion, or whether or not they're comfortable, and more, through this cognitive system. And, of course, that's why it's so interesting, because imagine if you can't talk, and imagine if you know that, OK, I want to do this, but you're unable to express that, you're unable to communicate that to the people around you, that means that you're quite literally trapped in your own body. And having cognitive computing able to come in and allow you to communicate, and create your own, I guess you could say, unique language using these brainwave patterns. That's something that I absolutely believe is, I guess you could say, the greatest gift, ever. To be able to give you the ability to communicate through artificial intelligence. That's really why I love working the healthcare field. >> Now, am I right, you've written a book? >> Yes, actually, and it actually started from last InterConnect. Last Interconnect, I started, and now I'm actually done writing my book, called, "Hello Swift!: IOS App Programming "for Kids and Other Beginners" and it's actually currently available for pre-order on the publisher's website, as well as lots of other book stores online. Of course, the final hard copy will be released soon. But basically, this book is really targeted towards getting the youth, and, really, kids, interested in programming, and specifically, IOS programming through Swift. And, of course, as you know, Swift is open-sourced, and I really support open source software. >> What are some of the cool things young kids want in software these days? Because, like I said, there is a tool chest of great stuff coming on, like composable software, Lego blocks, which people called like Lego blocks. What are some of the cool things that kids want these days? >> Well, there are a lot of things. But I'd actually like to highlight the main way that I like to get the youth interested in coding. And it's by showing them something that they find really interesting. For example, something that they see in movies a lot. Like, for example, artificial intelligence is the absolute perfect example of how you can have something, like artificial intelligence, that can get kids interested, and the youth interested, in these technologies like programming, in order to start to get them programming. Because of course, we need them to be prepared for their future. >> Gaming and AI are two, like, Sci-Fy is AI, kind of a cool, futuristic. And then gaming, also, is very interactive, immersion-based. >> Exactly, and, in fact, that's why a lot of companies are starting to merge AI and games. And, of course, virtual reality. Virtual reality is something else that, you know, kids, and really everybody, is really interested in nowadays. If we can, and in fact, we are, taking these AI technologies and incorporating them with these other technologies, like gaming, with the virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and we're trying to create this really interesting mix, especially for kids. And also, one more thing, here, is that not only are we doing this, AI is so diverse, it's all around us. It's on your phone, it's on your smart TV, it's in your car, and that's really why we should be showing the youth that this is all around us. We need to start adopting these technologies. >> Last year, I asked you the question, take us through a day in the life of Tanmay where you had a discovery. So let's play that back this year. Give us the time this year where you had a discovery. It could be super cool, or maybe just a breakthrough in some small way that was a notable that you'd like to share. >> Yes, and that actually happened recently. And again, I'm going to take this back to just a few weeks ago, actually. When I started working with, I mean, I had actually been working with my own custom machine learning algorithms for quite some time, since just after last InterConnect, actually, I started working with my own custom algorithms for machine learning. But a few weeks ago, I actually started working with those custom algorithms in the healthcare space. And one application that I've created that I find, actually, quite interesting because of the capability it has to help doctors, and I'll tell you this in a moment, is that it's an application that can take 69 attributes about any patient, OK, and it can actually tell you if they have a hearing disorder. And if so, what's their hearing disorder. The reason this is so great is because this can be a great help to audiologists, for example. And, in fact, I am actually in communication with an audiologist from the UK, and we're collaborating with him to try and see what this could hold in store for the future of audiology, and the future of healthcare, in general, with artificial intelligence. Apart from that, though, The Cognitive Story is another great project, where, of course, I'm trying to combine machine learning with these extremely powerful capabilities that Watson provides in order to create a great mix. In order to help people express themselves even though they don't have the natural ability to do so. >> So, Tanmay, obviously you are a big supporter of open source. You said earlier you open-sourced some of your algorithms, AskTanmay. What's been the response? Have you had contributors? >> Yes, actually, and that's the greatest part about open source, because, now, the thing is, let's just say there's some issues with AskTanmay, there's some, as you know, this is general open source stuff. But now, Ask Tanmay is really, I guess you could say, evolving much faster than I could ever have programmed it because there are many people coming to me, collaborating with me, helping out, submitting issues, pull requests, and more. And with AskTanmay, especially, now I'm about to release Version 3.0, as well, because I was able to get that help from the community. And, of course, because of that, not only does the community help me, but I am able to help the community by sharing my source code so they can learn from that and build their own QA systems on top of it. >> Awesome, so give us the report card on Bluemix and Watson. And be fair, now, I know you're IBM Champion. >> Yes, now, IBM Bluemix and Watson, I can tell, especially Watson, it has evolved a lot since last InterConnect. Of course, the new services that they're providing, like the Natural Language Understanding service, and more. And really, what I believe, is that not only are they providing these new services, but they're also improving their existing services. Like the Visual Recognition Service, how they're doing the image similarity, how they're improving their default classifier, how they are merging it with the Alchemy Vision services in order to make it even more powerful. And of course, the new, live training features that they're incorporating into visual recognition. How they're improving speech-to-text, and they're generally taking all of these Watson services that already exist and making them even more powerful so developers can really leverage them in their applications. Apart from that, though, IBM Bluemix has been going great, as well, with the new services it provides, especially from SoftLayer. Of course, Bluemix is going great, Watson has been rapidly evolving, as well. >> I notice you've got your IOT Watch on, the Apple iWatch. I bet you've been doing some stuff with IOT. What are some of the wearables you think that are needed right now? Because we had the founder of IndieGoGo on and we know the success of the crowdsourcing is there's a lot of tinkers and inventors out there who now can be up and running, so we're expecting to have a big maker culture growing exponentially around new stuff. So, what do you see that's needed from your generation? Chip implant in the brain? What's going on? >> Well, of course- >> What would you want? >> Well, in terms of, I guess you could say, wearables, there are a lot of different things that people are doing with wearables, including virtual realities. One of the main things that I believe is, I guess you could say, the most trending topic, in terms of wearables, of course watches, we've got glasses now that they're creating, like the Microsoft Hololens. And all of these different products that are focused around basically being able to, I guess you could say, run have these technologies available on your body. On yourself, quite literally. And to make it so easy to use. And really, what I believe is that one of the main things that's really going to power these wearables is AI, artificial intelligence. For example, even the Apple Watch has AI features in it. I mean, all virtual reality is powered by artificial intelligence, as well. And without that, it becomes extremely hard if not impossible for people to code in things like virtual reality. So what I believe is that we need, I guess you could say more adoption to these cognitive technologies. And we need people to adapt to it in their everyday environment, and really accept that it's all around them. And that's it's going to be extremely hard to live without it. Of course, we need to start getting the youth involved in these technologies, for them to be prepared for that future in which cognitive computing is everything, and, in fact, cognitive computing isn't just the future. It's the present, as well. That's why we need to start getting prepared for it. And that's why it's all around us. >> John was joking earlier about you getting your license. You're 14, now, is that right? >> 13, actually, about to be 14 in October. >> OK, right, so soon to be 14. So you'll probably get your license and still be able to drive. In two years we're not going to have totally autonomous vehicles, but- >> John: Maybe 25 years. >> What are your thoughts on that, though? What's the driving age in Canada, 16? >> Yes, I believe 16. >> Yeah, OK, so, you know, 16 years old, it's a symbol of freedom, you know, you get autonomy, and, you know. What's your feeling about maybe the next generation and them inheriting autonomous vehicles and not having, you know, the stick shift to drive, like when we were kids, and we all learned on the stick shift. What do you sense that? What do your colleagues and your other friends say about that? >> Sure, so, now, self-driving cars is something that is already being worked on, heavily, actually. It's a big research topic. Tesla, huge company that's really working towards self-driving cars, autonomous cars. They've already got, like, half of that done. They just have to work on the last half. Of course we've also got Google working on their self-driving cars, and so many other companies who at least aren't creating self-driving cars right now, or most are, actually, starting to work toward self-driving cars, including Uber. In fact, Uber is creating their own self-driving taxis that can take you around the city without you actually having to have a driver. But the thing is, what I believe, is that this AI technology is powerful enough to be able to work with these autonomous vehicles and more. It's just that there are a few, I guess you could say, rough edges that need to be worked out with these technologies, which I believe can be done. It's just a matter of time before we are able to get completely autonomous cars on the road. It's just that there might be a few issues with the ethics of self-driving cars, and that's an entire topic on its own. That would require an entirely separate interview. But, generally, I think autonomous cars, that's a great, great place to go with artificial intelligence, because that could completely eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, the amount of, for example, human error there is in driving. And, of course, get you around traffic faster. And, generally, maybe not even have traffic jams. There's just so many advantages to having autonomous cars. And, of course, that's why cognitive computing is all around us. >> So, AI is hot, IOT is hot. You're hot, you've got a great fan base. We know that from last year. The reaction from our audience was spectacular. >> Tanmay: Thank you. >> You almost won our Cube Madness competition because you retweeted all your followers, or all your YouTube followers. >> Tanmay: Thank you. >> Congratulations, great to see you. Come back on the Cube. >> Thank you, it's great to be on theCube. >> OK, we'll be back with more from theCube Live here in Las Vegas where IBM InterConnect, AI, cognitive computing, collective intelligence, all the data, here on theCube. We'll be right back with more after this short break. Stay with us.

from Las Vegas accepting the signal from the noise it's the queue coverage interconnect 2016 brought to you by IBM now your home John Murray had named a lot day ok welcome back everyone we are here live in Las Vegas for exclusive coverage of IBM interconnect 2016 this is the cube Silicon angles flagship program where we go out to the events and extract the signal annoys I'm John for rhythmic O's Dave a lot a and we're excited to have our youngest guest we've ever had on the Cuban our six-year seventh year doing it 10 Maybach che who's the star of the show coding since age 5 welcome to the cube hello ok so how was the first time you wrote code well actually I was 5 and I started with FoxPro programming on a really old computer forgot who manufactured it in general with my dad's help alright so how do you feel with all these old people around you like us learning back in the old days you're the next generation so how do you feel about all this these sub celebrity status you're famous on YouTube a lot of people love your videos you've been great teacher yeah I love to help people so it feels great yeah was that what was the how many videos have you posted now I have around 80 videos 88 yes all sort of sort of self-help yeah programming here's how to yes sure and and your community is growing I presume yeah is your dad a programmer uh he he does work as a programmer yet uh-huh so is that how you first yes my first got into programming but now sometimes that you can teach my dad programmers do for iOS teaching the teachers ok so when did you surpass your dad in the in the programming really all when the Iowa my first iOS app t-tables which helps you learn multiplication tables was accepted into the iOS App Store and so right after that I started using the Internet as a tool to basically learn programming and at that point I just started learning more and more yeah and you like teaching people too so not only do you develop you also are teaching folks and you like that yes yes all right so when was the last time you push code this morning today kind of clock morning yeah oxi agile a little update for us Tim it allows you to ask another question from the result page I said what's cool about the the current stuff you're seeing here are you playing with Watson at all's Watson integrate actually I use Watson in the latest app that I've developed which I was actually presenting yesterday at the cloud Expo it's called a stem ray and so basically it you can ask it person or organization questions like who is the CEO of IBM and it should be able to answer them and so it does use IBM Watson's api's in this case relationship abstraction and natural language classifier are you using bluemix at all yes absolutely I love what makes it's really easy to use the Watson api's containers and stuff yeah I like it was a developer you feel like the services the richness of the services in bluemix so to satisfy your your general needs and yes what what more would you like to see out of bluemix well mainly out of bluemix nothing that i can think off the top of my head but for watson i really want more sort of api's don't have anything in general in specific that i can think of but more IBM watson api's would be great so you've also done some development for wearables right Apple watch is that right or yes I have developed apps that are actually I have a TGS app it's a number guessing game app for the Apple watch and iPhone on the App Store I also have developed for Mac OS X but I don't have any apps on the App Store for that yet what are you what do you think about the wearables thing is remember when Google glass came out John actually went and got with the first Google glass of your son Alec was wearing it as graduation and but they were sort of you know kind of not they were sort of awkward you know it didn't and people said I don't know you have an apple developer Kate was pretty weak at the time it wasn't coming I thought was a great first version and I love it it's it's sandbox stuff but so what do you what do you think about you know wearables the development environment yeah you encouraged about the future of them do they have a long way to go give us your thoughts on that Tanmay well to begin first of all on the Apple watch I love pretty much the portability of these sorts of devices and there's one more thing but I want sort of like the Apple watch and the Google glass it would be best if there were independent devices instead of connected to your phones they could be sort of like a Mac and an iPhone they can share data with each other but they shouldn't have to depend on each other that's one thing that I'm not too much of a fan of about them so I mean if my inference is that's a form factor related you know you can only do so much on the problem on a watch but do you I mean I know there's a lot going on in Silicon Valley with the future of the way in which we you know communicate I just wonder as a young person right you you've always been had a device like this right you're your disposal but it seems to me that using our thumbs to communicate to these devices is doesn't seem to be the right way asking the AI question yeah so exactly is is the future you know artificial intelligence what do you envision as a as a developer how are we going to communicate with these devices in the future well first of all let me just tell you our computers sort of power is not with natural language it's with math because of our human is better at sort of talking to people like we are right now not at sort of mass or live it would be harder for a human to do math but a computer can do math easier natural language you can't do whatsoever and so first of all in order to program in even asked anime it would take a lot of code and so what I can really think is we the next I don't know how many years it's going to take a long time to get to the sort of really powerful questions answering systems that can answer with a hundred percent accuracy not even hey we could do that so Tama you've been using the internet for outreach and in building a community to teach people than great the next step is you can't be everywhere so you use the internet but what about virtual reality oculus rift have you played with any of this stuff not yet but I plan on soon yes you you enticed by that yes I'm specifically excited about microsoft hololens the virtual Tanmay on the whiteboard you could be everywhere that way all right so what's the coolest language right now for you I mean I see your we heard Swift on stage you did the iOS app water what are some of the cool things well first of all I've developed as Ted may in Python and Java for the backend and HTML for the interface and PHP for the interface and back-end bridge but the most interesting language that I've ever used really is Swift huh first of all second I'd say as a close second is Java because it's portability you create something on Linux and it would almost easily work on Windows and Mac as well Chavez Chavez a good language is good for heavy lifting things yeah how about visualization are you thinking anything about rich media at all and visualization uh I'm I'll get the data you have the Swift absolute the mobile yes visualizing other media techniques with the T with math and with your truth your developer is what are you using for visualization graphics o for graphics well I'm not actually a graphic designer I'm trying to focus all more on the programming side of things but I do develop the user interface for example I actually had another app except to the a few days ago a goal setting app for which I had the same user interface then sort of graphics themselves I don't see usually hardcore fans but use you know the libraries yes 10 May you mentioned the Swift was your favorite language what's so alluring about it from a developer's perspective the syntax is great and it's really powerful which is what I love about Swift so it's easy and and powerful yes exactly so um you from Toronto right um sorry Toronto yeah how we say it right so is there a big developer community there I know there is a growing one but sorry uh well I have I don't really meet with people in person and develop together I'm more of an independent developer right now but I do definitely help people want to one on my youtube channel with really any questions or problems they have if you'd like to see my YouTube channel of course it's called Tim live action I get to answer yes when it's called Tim me back she which is my name yes okay can google it up and you'll find it I teach stuff like computing programming algorithms Watson math and science and so yeah so actually if you like an example a few days ago actually another app called speak for handicap was accepted into the iOS App Store and I developed that with von Clement which is one who is one of my subscribers and so yeah it took us a few months of hard work and we were able to even epic n' speak for handicaps it allows them to essentially speak i'm going to ask you the question so a lot of moment I have four kids to her about your age they are naturally attracted to programming it's fun it's like sports you know it's really fun for them and so that but a lot of them don't know how to way to start you had you were lucky you fell right into it five well you get that a lot of us knows you get a lot of questions on your on your YouTube channel around that you people excited for your next video but for the folks that are now seeing you and want to get in it might be a little scared can you share what you've learned and what advice would you give folks what I recommend is start out slow start doing some stuff in programming don't immediately get into the harder sort of thing start with really simple applications and don't develop when you need to develop you want to essentially programming things randomly for example I learned Swift like pretty much entirely due to the fact that first of all I'm writing a book on it it's for iOS app developers for beginners and also because I would just programming stuff randomly I didn't wait for me to need to programming something or for if I wanted to make an iOS app an order program in something for one day trader prime number checker the mastery number generator stuff like that and so just randomly anything I times it'll create a YouTube video on it to help people you could also use again a YouTube channel as sort of a place to learn programming and so use the internet as resource every developer has to pull those late nights and sometimes you pups to pull an all-nighter have you pulled an all-nighter coding that's not happy about that trouble without stuck he was doing it into the covers but also developers also struggle sometimes on the really hard problem and then the satisfaction of cracking the code or breaking through can you give us an example where you were pulling your hair out you were really focused on the problem you were kind of thrashing through it and you made it through yes actually any I could give you but the one that I remember most is during a Stanley's development at first I was using the multi processing library in Python in order to send multiple queries to relationship extraction at once but then what happened I don't know whether it was a memory management issue or something but after let's say five queries the sixth one will be painfully slow then I tried out the threading library why not and so next after around 10 queries the eleventh one will be painfully slow again I have no idea why then now this was in Python and so what I decided to do was maybe reprogram it for threading in Java and then have Python communicate with Java and so what I did is I learned job I the day because I hadn't ever touched that before because again once you went in programming basics it's really easy to move to another language and slipped in python there actually slipped in general is quite similar to Java except java's a little bit simpler and so yeah I learned drama today the next day I programmed in a simple relationship extraction threading module made a jar out of it and let Python communicate with the jar and so after that the glitch was mostly fixed it was just Python not threading properly or you could never got to the problem I was not able to find out what the problem was but I mean yeah so what kind of machine do you run he's like you driver the car multi-threading you got a lot of processors how many cores what kind of machine do you have on the attack what's your local host mic 27-inch 5k Retina iMac with 64 gigs of RAM and four cores I mean acre yeah four cores than hyper-threaded eight cores until I seven and that's good for you right now yeah you're happy with it yeah how about any external in the cloud any obviously SSD uh I don't actually I do have a wood set of course but then I don't really host anything online yet because I don't have a need for it yet but then what I'm going to make a send me public of course that I'm going to need a quite a powerful server get her to what so the industry needs your help have you thought about rewriting the Linux kernel actually I a few years ago I was I didn't really have anything to do so that's why I started YouTube but before that I actually I was really interested in operating systems i coded my little own with a hello world operating system assembly which could run on I forgot the architecture it runs on but it was quite interesting then again after that my youtube I started to take that more seriously and I didn't really have enough time to do that any projects you're working on now that excite you that you can share with us may be solving the speed of light problem actually mainly right now I've been working on as Tammy but I do have many other applications that I'm working on in an app that could help University students and developers with essentially it's an algorithm lookup if you'd like an algorithm that can help you do path finding for example you just put in path finding as a tag and some other things and then it'll give you a star dice other sort of algorithms and it uses the concept insights service and walks and I've also made a tweak classifier where you can say like let's say there's a hashtag on Twitter where there are two separate sort of things that you could talk about for example to hashtag Swift lang on Twitter at one Swift was open sourced it was there are two different types of people just talk about something general like nothing ever happened or they're talking about open sourcing let's say you wanted to see only news about Swift being open source well then you give Watson some examples of tweets that you like and sweets that you don't like and then eventually it would be able to tell you or give you tweets that you only you like it's a very hydration engine on context yes exactly an easy natural language classifier service so talk about social media I mean here at your age and what you've been through and what you know technically you have a good visit understanding of operating systems coding and all the principles of computer science but as it gets more complicated with social media people are all connected what's your view of the future going to be mean is it if Algrim is gonna solve the problem what do you think about the future how do you think about it 10 years out well first of all the world needs more programmers and I think more sort of algorithms and naturalizers processing are the means were the topics that we're going to focus on later have you ever been a Silicon Valley yes but it's so not not in a developer capacity in sort of visiting it would you like to sort of visit there yeah what does spend time with some of your your colleagues in the heart of development land John's out there your idols Steve Jobs Tim coke Bill Gates how about like I'm a software developer perspective any cult following people you love like some of the early guys coders any names that did pop to mind uh not the optimal might immediate jobs mo are you supposed in the orchestra are you running the orchestra he was a good product guy so if you can invent the product right now on the queue but would it be it would be mostly iron wrong sort of a QA system with almost a hundred percent accuracy that would be best in I state we have a hologram right here we have guests interface with us that would be cool how about that huh you are would you like to come to work for us and develop that we'd love to have you I like congratulate you on being the youngest ever cube alum we have this little community of cube you know alumni and you are the youngest ever so congratulations really fantastic a very impressive you know young man and really very separate you to all and congratulations thank thank you come on the Q things with spending the time this is the cube bringing you all the action here handmade doing some great stuff he's very young very fluent understands thread and understands coding and this is the future in a born in born in code that's that that's the future developers and we hope to see more great software developers come on the market the day to the analytics of course Watson's right there with you along the way things we come on the cube appreciate we right back with more cube coverage here exclusive coverage at IBM interconnect 2016 I'm John for what David love they be right back

Las Vegas expensing the signal from the noise it's the cue interconnect 2016 brought to you by IBM we are here live in Las Vegas for exclusive coverage of IBM interconnect 2016 this is the cube Silicon angles flagship program where we go out to the events and extract the signal annoys I'm John four is my close Dave a lot a and we're excited to have our youngest guest we've ever had on the Cuban our six-year seventh year doing it ten Maybach che who's the star of the show coding since age five welcome to the cube well actually I was five and I started with Foxborough programming a really old computer forgot who manufactured it in general with my dad's help alright so how do you feel with all these old people around you like us you're the next generation so how do you feel about all this these sub celebrity status you're famous on YouTube a lot of people love your videos you've been great teacher yeah I love to help people so it feels great yeah was that what was the how many videos have you posted now I have around 80 videos 88 it's all sort of sort of self-help programming here's how to and and your community is growing I presume is your dad a programmer he does work as a programmer yes uh-huh so is that how you first first got into programming but now sometimes that you can teach my dad for teaching the teachers okay when did you surpass your dad in in the programming really when Iowa my first iOS app t-tables which helps you learn multiplication tables I was accepted into the iOS App Store and so right after that I started using the Internet as a tool to basically learn programming and at that point I just started learning more and more yeah and you like teaching people too so not only do you develop you also teaching folks and you'd like that yes yes all right so when was the last time you push code this morning today a little update for us to admit allows you to ask another question from the result page what's cool about the the current stuff you're seeing here are you playing with Watson at all Watson integrate actually I use Watson in the latest app that I've developed which I was actually presenting yesterday at the cloud Expo it's called a stamina and so basically it you can ask it person or organization questions like who is the CEO of IBM and it should be able to answer them and so it does use IBM Watson's api's in this case relationship extraction and natural language classifier are you using bluemix at all yes I love what makes it's really easy to use the Watson api's containers and so I like it was a developer you feel like the services the richness of the services in bluemix so to satisfy your your general needs and yes what what more would you like to see out of bluemix well mainly out of bluemix nothing that I can think off the top of my head but for Watson I really want more sort of api's don't have anything in general in specific that I can think of more IBM Watson api's would be great so you've also done some development for wearables right Apple watch is that right yes I have developed apps that are actually I have a to guess up it's a number guessing game app for the Apple watch and iPhone on the App Store I also have developed for Mac OS X but I don't have any apps on the App Store for that yet what are you what do you think about the wearables thing is remember when Google glass came out John actually went and got one of the first Google glass your son Alec was wearing at his graduation and but they were sort of you know kind of not they were sort of awkward you know didn't and people said have an Apple Developer Kit was pretty weak at the time there was something coming I thought was a great first version and I loved it it's it's sandbox stuff but so what do you what do you think about you know wearables the development environment yeah you encouraged about the future of them do they have a long way to go give us your thoughts on that Tanmay well we getting first of all on the Apple watch I love pretty much the portability of these sorts of devices and there's one more one thing that I sort of like the Apple watch and the Google glass it would be best if there were independent devices instead of connected to air phones they could be sort of like a Mac and an iPhone they can share data with each other but they shouldn't have to depend on each other that's one thing that I'm not too much of a fan of about them so I mean if my inference is that's a form factor related you know you can only do so much on this but do you I mean I know there's a lot going on in Silicon Valley with the future of the way in which we you know communicate I just wonder as a young person right you you've always been had a device like this right you're your disposal but it seems to me that using our thumbs to communicate to these devices is doesn't seem to be the right way it's asking the AI question yeah so exactly is is the future you know artificial intelligence what do you envision as a as a developer how are we going to communicate with these devices in the future first of all let me just tell you our computers sort of power is not with natural language it's with math because of human is better at sort of talking to people like we're right now not at sort of mass or it would be harder for a human to do math but a computer can do math easier natural language you can't do whatsoever and so first of all in order to program in even a Stanley it would take a lot of code and so what I can really think of is we for the next I don't know how many years it's going to take a long time to get through the sort of really powerful question of answering systems that can answer with a hundred percent accuracy not even here we could do that so Timmy you've been using the internet for outreach and in building a community to teach people then great the next step is you can't be everywhere so you use the internet but what about virtual reality oculus rift have you played with any of this stuff no yet but I plan on soon yes you enticed by that yes specifically excited about microsoft hololens virtual Tanmay you could be everywhere that way all right so what's the coolest language right now for you I mean I see your we heard Swift on stage you did the iOS app order what are some of the cool things as Ted made in Python and Java for the backend and HTML for the interface and PHP for the interface and back-end bridge but the most interesting language that I've ever used really is Swift first of all second I'd say as a close second is Java because it's portability you create something on Linux and it would almost easily work on the Windows and Mac as well this job is a good language for heavy lifting things how about a visualization are you thinking anything about rich media at all and visualization you have the swift absolute the mobile yes visualizing other media techniques with the T with math and with your truth your developers what are you using for visualization graphics for graphics I'm not actually a graphic designer I'm trying to focus more on the programming side of things but I do develop the user interface for example I actually had another app except of the a few days ago a goal setting app for which I had to write inside the user interface the sort of graphics themselves I don't but you know the libraries it's 10 May you mentioned the Swift is your favorite language what's so alluring about it from a developer's perspective this syntax is great and it's really powerful which is what I love about Swift so it's easy and and powerful yes exactly so you from Toronto right I'm sorry Toronto yes we say it right so is there a big developer community there I know there was a growing one but I don't really meet with people in person and develop together I'm more of an independent developer right now but I do definitely help people want to want on my youtube channel with really any questions or problems they have and if you'd like to see my youtube channel of course it's called team live actually get to it sir yes mine it's called Timmy Bakshi which is my name yes okay can google it up and you'll find it I teach stuff like computing programming algorithms Watson math and science and so yeah so actually if you like an example a few days ago actually another app called speak for handicap is accepted into the iOS App Store and I developed that with Vaughn Clement which is one who is one of my subscribers and so yeah it took us a few months of hard work and we were even that up again speak for handicaps it allows them to actually speak I'm gonna ask you the question so a lot of moma I have four kids - or about your age they are naturally attracted to programming it's fun it's like sports you know it's really fun for them and so that but a lot of them don't know how to wait a start you had you were lucky you fell right into it five what you get that a lot of ice knows you get a lot of questions on your on your YouTube channel around that you people excited for your next video but for the folks that are now seeing you and want to get in it might be a little scared can you share what you've learned and what advice would you give what I recommend is start out slow start doing some stuff in programming don't immediately get into the harder sort of thing start with really simple applications and don't develop when you need to develop you want to essentially programming things randomly for example I learned Swift like pretty much entirely due to the fact that first of all I'm writing a book on it it's for iOS app developers for beginners and also because I would just program in stuff randomly I didn't wait for me to need to programming something or for if I wanted to make an iOS app in order program and something it's one thing I trained a prime number checker the mastery number generator stuff like that and so just randomly anything I sometimes you look really YouTube video on it to help people you could also use again any YouTube channel as sort of a place to learn programming and so use resource every developer has to pull those late nights and sometimes you to pup to pull an all-nighter have you pulled an all-nighter code he was doing it into the covers but also developers also struggle sometimes on a really hard problem and then the satisfaction of cracking the code or breaking through can you give us an example where you were pulling your hair out you were really focused on the problem you were kind of thrashing through it and you made it through this actually many I could give you but the one that I remember most is during a Stanley's development at first I was using the multi processing library in Python in order to send multiple queries to relationship extraction at once but then what happened I don't know whether it was a memory management issue or something but after let's say five queries the sixth one would be painfully slow then I tried out the threading library why not and so next after around 10 queries the 11th one will be painfully slow again I have no idea why then now this was a Python and so what I decided to do was maybe reprogram it for threading in Java and then have Python communicate with Java and so what I did is I learned job I the day because I hadn't ever touched that before because again once you wanted programming basics it's really easy to move to another language and flipped and python there actually slipped in general is quite similar to Java except Java a little bit simpler and so yeah I learned drama a day the next day I programmed in a simple release abstraction threading module made a jar out of it and let Python communicate with the jar and so after that the glitch was mostly fixed it was just Python not threading properly or you could never got through the problem I was not able to find out what the problem was but I mean yeah so what kind of machine do you run it's like driving this car multi-threading you got a lot of processes how many cores what kind of machine you have on the advance your local host 27-inch 5k Retina iMac with 64 gigs of ram and 4 cores I mean 8 yeah 4 cores than hyper-threaded 8 cores until I seven and that's good for you right now yeah you're happy with it how about any external in the cloud any obviously SSD I don't actually I do have a wood set of course but then I don't really host anything online yet because I don't have a need for it yet but then what I'm going to make a semi-public of course I'm going to need a quite a powerful server you know her too so the industry needs your help have you thought about rewriting the Linux kernel years ago I was I didn't really have anything to do so that's why I started YouTube but before that I actually I was really interested in the operating systems I coated my little own with a hello world operating system assembly which could run on I forgot the architecture it runs on but it was quite interesting for them again after that my youtube I started to take that more seriously and I didn't really have enough time to do that any projects you're working on now that excite you that you can share with us maybe solving the speed of light problem or actually mainly right now I've been working on a STEMI but I do have many other applications that I'm working on including an app that could help University students and developers with essentially it's an algorithm lookup if you'd like an algorithm that can help you do path finding for example you just put in a path finding as a tag and some other things and then it'll give you a charred I sort of algorithms and it uses the concept insights service and walks and I've also made a tweet classifier where you can say like let's say there's a hashtag on Twitter where there are two separate sort of things that you could talk about for example the hashtag Swift laying on Twitter at one Swift was open sourced it was there are two different types of people just talk about soup in general like nothing ever happened or they're talking about open sourcing let's say you wanted to see only news about Swift being open source well then you give Watson some examples of tweets that you like and sweets that you don't like and then eventually it would be able to tell you or give you tweets that the only way you like variation in Jinan yes exactly and it uses the natural language classifier service so talk about social media I mean here at your age and what you've been through and what you know technically you have a good visit understanding of operating systems coding and all the principles of computer science but as it gets more complicated with social media people are all connected what's your view of the future going to be I mean is it if algorithm's gonna solve the problem what do you think about the future how do you think about it ten years out well first of all the world needs more programmers and I think more sort of algorithms and natural language processing are the means were the topics that we're going to focus on later have you ever been a Silicon Valley not not in a developer capacity just sort of visiting it would you like to sort of visit there spend time with some of your your colleagues in the heart of development John's out there your idols Steve Jobs Tim Cook Bill Gates how about like from a software developer perspective any cult following people you love like the early guys coders any names that did pop to mind jobs he was a good product guy so if you can invent the product right now on the cube what would it be it would be mostly iron wrong sort of a QA system with almost a hundred percent accuracy that would be best in 98 we have a hologram right here we have guests interface with us that would be cool would you like to come to work for us and develop that we'd love to have you I like congratulate you on being the youngest ever cube alum we have this community of cube you know alumni and you are the youngest ever so congratulations fantastic a very impressive you know young man and really very summery quadrants break you to all and congratulations thank thanks come on the cute things are spending the time this is the cute bringing you all the action here ten may doing some great stuff he's very young very fluent understands thread and understands coding and this is the future you know born in born in code that's that that's the future developers and we hope to see more great software developers come on the market the day to the analytics of course Watson is right there with you along the way thanks for coming on the queue preciate we right back with more cube coverage here exclusive coverage at IBM interconnect 2016 I'm John for what Dave a lot they'd be right back