Congress Bots and DeepDrumpf
Hey, sick of the election yet? Fear not, there are algorithms that can automagically generate political-ish speech so that we never need to be without an endless supply of Congressional speeches and ...
11 Maalis 201620min
Multi - Armed Bandits
Multi-armed bandits: how to take your randomized experiment and make it harder better faster stronger. Basically, a multi-armed bandit experiment allows you to optimize for both learning and making u...
7 Maalis 201611min
Experiments and Messy, Tricky Causality
"People with a family history of heart disease are more likely to eat healthy foods, and have a high incidence of heart attacks." Did the healthy food cause the heart attacks? Probably not. But est...
4 Maalis 201616min
Backpropagation
The reason that neural nets are taking over the world right now is because they can be efficiently trained with the backpropagation algorithm. In short, backprop allows you to adjust the weights of t...
29 Helmi 201612min
Text Analysis on the State Of The Union
First up in this episode: a crash course in natural language processing, and important steps if you want to use machine learning techniques on text data. Then we'll take that NLP know-how and talk ab...
26 Helmi 201622min
Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence includes a number of different strategies for how to make machines more intelligent, and often more human-like, in their ability to learn and solve problems. An ambitious grou...
22 Helmi 201617min
Survival Analysis
Survival analysis is all about studying how long until an event occurs--it's used in marketing to study how long a customer stays with a service, in epidemiology to estimate the duration of survival o...
19 Helmi 201615min
Gravitational Waves
All aboard the gravitational waves bandwagon--with the first direct observation of gravitational waves announced this week, Katie's dusting off her physics PhD for a very special gravity-related episo...
15 Helmi 201620min
