Linear Digressions

Hot enough for you? Climate models suggest that it's only going to get warmer in the coming years. This episode unpacks those models, so you understand how they work. A lot of the episodes we do ...

18 Jul 201619min

Last week’s episode on artificial intelligence gets a huge payoff this week—we’ll explore a wonderful couple of papers about all the ways that artificial intelligence can go wrong. Malevolent actors?...

11 Jul 201628min

There’s a ton of excitement about reinforcement learning, a form of semi-supervised machine learning that underpins a lot of today’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms. Here’s a crash co...

3 Jul 201618min

Apple wants to study iPhone users' activities and use it to improve performance. Google collects data on what people are doing online to try to improve their Chrome browser. Do you like the idea of ...

27 Jun 201618min

Something a little different in this episode--we'll be talking about the technical plumbing that gets our podcast from our brains to your ears. As it turns out, it's a multi-step bucket brigade proce...

20 Jun 201629min

Machine learning on imbalanced classes: surprisingly tricky. Many (most?) algorithms tend to just assign the majority class label to all the data and call it a day. SMOTE is an algorithm for manufac...

13 Jun 201614min

Conjoint analysis is like AB tester, but more bigger more better: instead of testing one or two things, you can test potentially dozens of options. Where might you use something like this? Well, if ...

6 Jun 201618min

This episode is for all you (us) traffic nerds--we're talking about the hidden structure underlying traffic on-ramp metering systems. These systems slow down the flow of traffic onto highways so that...

30 Mai 201617min