Iain Harlow's guest appearances

Iain Harlow

Towards Data Science

Sarah Williams

Ben Goertzel

Jeremy Howard

Roland Memisevic

Max Welling

Ayanna Howard

Mike Tung

Margaret Mitchell

Melanie Mitchell

Gillian Hadfield

Anders Sandberg

Brian Christian

Joel Grus

Jeffrey Ding

Ben Lorica

OwlTail

I can’t remember how many times I’ve forgotten something important. I’m sure it’s a regular occurrence though: I constantly forget valuable life lessons, technical concepts and useful bits of statistical theory. What’s worse, I often forget these things after working bloody hard to learn them, so my forgetfulness is just a giant waste of time and energy. That’s why I jumped at the chance to chat with Iain Harlow, VP of Science at Cerego — a company that helps businesses build training courses for their employees by optimizing the way information is served to maximize retention and learning outcomes. Iain knows a lot about learning and has some great insights to share about how you can optimize your own learning, but he’s also got a lot of expertise solving data science problems and hiring data scientists — two things that he focuses on in his work at Cerego. He’s also a veteran of the academic world, and has some interesting observations to share about the difference between research in academia and research in industry.

I can’t remember how many times I’ve forgotten something important. I’m sure it’s a regular occurrence though: I constantly forget valuable life lessons, technical concepts and useful bits of statistical theory. What’s worse, I often forget these things after working bloody hard to learn them, so my forgetfulness is just a giant waste of time and energy. That’s why I jumped at the chance to chat with Iain Harlow, VP of Science at <a href="http://cerego.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Cerego </a>— a company that helps businesses build training courses for their employees by optimizing the way information is served to maximize retention and learning outcomes. Iain knows a lot about learning and has some great insights to share about how you can optimize your own learning, but he’s also got a lot of expertise solving data science problems and hiring data scientists — two things that he focuses on in his work at Cerego. He’s also a veteran of the academic world, and has some interesting observations to share about the difference between research in academia and research in industry.

23. Iain Harlow - Leaving academia for industry and optimizing how you learn