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Data Skeptic

The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying ... Read more

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[MINI] Markov Chain Monte Carlo

[MINI] Markov Chain Monte Carlo

This episode explores how going wine testing could teach us about using markov chain monte carlo (mcmc).

3 Apr 2015

15mins

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Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing

In this week's episode, Scott Aaronson, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, explains what a quantum comput... Read more

1 Dec 2017

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Kyle interviews Prasanth Pulavarthi about the Onnx format for deep neural networks.

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Game Theory

Game Theory

Thanks to our sponsor The Great Courses. This week's episode is a short primer on game theory. For tickets to the free D... Read more

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[MINI] Confidence Intervals

[MINI] Confidence Intervals

Commute times and BBQ invites help frame a discussion about the statistical concept of confidence intervals.

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[MINI] The Chi-Squared Test

[MINI] The Chi-Squared Test

The Chi-Squared test is a methodology for hypothesis testing. When one has categorical data, in the form of frequency co... Read more

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Being Bayesian

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This episode explores the root concept of what it is to be Bayesian: describing knowledge of a system probabilistically,... Read more

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[MINI] Natural Language Processing

[MINI] Natural Language Processing

This episode overviews some of the fundamental concepts of natural language processing including stemming, n-grams, par... Read more

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Algorithmic Fairness

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This episode includes an interview with Aaron Roth author of The Ethical Algorithm.

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[MINI] k-means clustering

[MINI] k-means clustering

The k-means clustering algorithm is an algorithm that computes a deterministic label for a given "k" number of clusters ... Read more

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The Complexity of Learning Neural Networks

The Complexity of Learning Neural Networks

Over the past several years, we have seen many success stories in machine learning brought about by deep learning techni... Read more

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[MINI] Bias Variance Tradeoff

[MINI] Bias Variance Tradeoff

A discussion of the expected number of cars at a stoplight frames today's discussion of the bias variance tradeoff. The ... Read more

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[MINI] Primer on Deep Learning

[MINI] Primer on Deep Learning

In this episode, we talk about a high-level description of deep learning.  Kyle presents a simple game (pictured below),... Read more

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BERT is Magic

BERT is Magic

Kyle pontificates on how impressed he is with BERT.

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Practicing and Communicating Data Science with Jeff Stanton

Practicing and Communicating Data Science with Jeff Stanton

Jeff Stanton joins me in this episode to discuss his book An Introduction to Data Science, and some of the unique challe... Read more

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Serverless NLP Model Training

Serverless NLP Model Training

Alex Reeves joins us to discuss some of the challenges around building a serverless, scalable, generic machine learning ... Read more

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Data Science Hiring Processes

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Kyle shares a few thoughts on mistakes observed by job applicants and also shares a few procedural insights listeners at... Read more

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The Right (big data) Tool for the Job with Jay Shankar

In this week's episode, we discuss applied solutions to big data problem with big data engineer Jay Shankar.  The episod... Read more

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[MINI] Bayesian Updating

[MINI] Bayesian Updating

In this minisode, we discuss Bayesian Updating - the process by which one can calculate the most likely hypothesis might... Read more

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Advertising Attribution with Nathan Janos

Advertising Attribution with Nathan Janos

A conversation with Convertro's Nathan Janos about methodologies used to help advertisers understand the affect each of ... Read more

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