Susan Holcomb - Nontechnical career skills for data scientists

Susan Holcomb - Nontechnical career skills for data scientists

It’s easy to think of data science as a technical discipline, but in practice, things don’t really work out that way. If you’re going to be a successful data scientist, people will need to believe that you can add value in order to hire you, people will need to believe in your pet project in order to endorse it within your company, and people will need to make decisions based on the insights you pull out of your data.

Although it’s easy to forget about the human element, managing it is one of the most useful skills you can develop if you want to climb the data science ladder, and land that first job, or that promotion you’re after. And that’s exactly why we sat down with Susan Holcomb, the former Head of Data at Pebble, the world’s first smartwatch company.

When Pebble first hired her, Susan was fresh out of grad school in physics, and had never led a team, or interacted with startup executives. As the company grew, she had to figure out how to get Pebble’s leadership to support her effort to push the company in a more data-driven direction, at the same time as she managed a team of data scientists for the first time.

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130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*

130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*

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129. Amber Teng - Building apps with a new generation of language models

129. Amber Teng - Building apps with a new generation of language models

It’s no secret that a new generation of powerful and highly scaled language models is taking the world by storm. Companies like OpenAI, AI21Labs, and Cohere have built models so versatile that they’re...

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128. David Hirko - AI observability and data as a cybersecurity weakness

128. David Hirko - AI observability and data as a cybersecurity weakness

Imagine you’re a big hedge fund, and you want to go out and buy yourself some data. Data is really valuable for you — it’s literally going to shape your investment decisions and determine your outcome...

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127. Matthew Stewart - The emerging world of ML sensors

127. Matthew Stewart - The emerging world of ML sensors

Today, we live in the era of AI scaling. It seems like everywhere you look people are pushing to make large language models larger, or more multi-modal and leveraging ungodly amounts of processing pow...

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126. JR King - Does the brain run on deep learning?

126. JR King - Does the brain run on deep learning?

Deep learning models — transformers in particular — are defining the cutting edge of AI today. They’re based on an architecture called an artificial neural network, as you probably already know if you...

14 Sep 202255min

125. Ryan Fedasiuk - Can the U.S. and China collaborate on AI safety?

125. Ryan Fedasiuk - Can the U.S. and China collaborate on AI safety?

It’s no secret that the US and China are geopolitical rivals. And it’s also no secret that that rivalry extends into AI — an area both countries consider to be strategically critical. But in a context...

7 Sep 202248min

124. Alex Watson - Synthetic data could change everything

124. Alex Watson - Synthetic data could change everything

There’s a website called thispersondoesnotexist.com. When you visit it, you’re confronted by a high-resolution, photorealistic AI-generated picture of a human face. As the website’s name suggests, the...

18 Mai 202251min

123. Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves - AI on the blockchain (it actually might just make sense)

123. Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves - AI on the blockchain (it actually might just make sense)

Two ML researchers with world-class pedigrees who decided to build a company that puts AI on the blockchain. Now to most people — myself included — “AI on the blockchain” sounds like a winning entry i...

12 Mai 202254min

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