What BERT is Not

Yudi Pawitan joins us to discuss his paper Defending the P-value.

12 Okt 202030min

Ivan Oransky joins us to discuss his work documenting the scientific peer-review process at retractionwatch.com.

5 Okt 202032min

Derek Lim joins us to discuss the paper Expertise and Dynamics within Crowdsourced Musical Knowledge Curation: A Case Study of the Genius Platform.

21 Sep 202027min

Neil Johnson joins us to discuss the paper The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views.

14 Sep 202035min

Mashbat Suzuki joins us to discuss the paper How Many Freemasons Are There? The Consensus Voting Mechanism in Metric Spaces. Check out Mashbat's and many other great talks at the 13th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2020)

7 Sep 202022min

Steven Heilman joins us to discuss his paper Designing Stable Elections. For a general interest article, see: https://theconversation.com/the-electoral-college-is-surprisingly-vulnerable-to-popular-vote-changes-141104 Steven Heilman receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

31 Aug 202027min

Sami Yousif joins us to discuss the paper The Illusion of Consensus: A Failure to Distinguish Between True and False Consensus. This work empirically explores how individuals evaluate consensus under different experimental conditions reviewing online news articles. More from Sami at samiyousif.org Link to survey mentioned by Daniel Kerrigan: https://forms.gle/TCdGem3WTUYEP31B8

24 Aug 202033min

In this solo episode, Kyle overviews the field of fraud detection with eCommerce as a use case.  He discusses some of the techniques and system architectures used by companies to fight fraud with a focus on why these things need to be approached from a real-time perspective.

18 Aug 202038min