Special Crossover Episode: Partially Derivative interview with White House Data Scientist DJ Patil
We have the pleasure of bringing you a very special crossover episode this week: our friends at Partially Derivative (another great podcast about data science, you should check it out) recently interv...
18 Joulu 201646min
How to Lose at Kaggle
Competing in a machine learning competition on Kaggle is a kind of rite of passage for data scientists. Losing unexpectedly at the very end of the contest is also something that a lot of us have expe...
12 Joulu 201617min
Attacking Discrimination in Machine Learning
Imagine there's an important decision to be made about someone, like a bank deciding whether to extend a loan, or a school deciding to admit a student--unfortunately, we're all too aware that discrimi...
5 Joulu 201623min
Recurrent Neural Nets
This week, we're doing a crash course in recurrent neural networks--what the structural pieces are that make a neural net recurrent, how that structure helps RNNs solve certain time series problems, a...
28 Marras 201612min
Stealing a PIN with signal processing and machine learning
Want another reason to be paranoid when using the free coffee shop wifi? Allow us to introduce WindTalker, a system that cleverly combines a dose of signal processing with a dash of machine learning ...
21 Marras 201616min
Neural Net Cryptography
Cryptography used to be the domain of information theorists and spies. There's a new player now: neural networks. Given the task of communicating securely, neural networks are inventing new encrypti...
14 Marras 201616min
Deep Blue
In 1997, Deep Blue was the IBM algorithm/computer that did what no one, at the time, though possible: it beat the world's best chess player. It turns out, though, that one of the most important moves...
7 Marras 201620min
Organizing Google's Datasets
If you're a data scientist, there's a good chance you're used to working with a lot of data. But there's a lot of data, and then there's Google-scale amounts of data. Keeping all that data organized...
31 Loka 201615min
