Endogenous Variables and Measuring Protest Effectiveness
This is a re-release of an episode first released in February 2017. Have you been out protesting lately, or watching the protests, and wondered how much effect they might have on lawmakers? It's a t...
7 Juli 201917min
Deepfakes
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are producing some of the most realistic artificial videos we’ve ever seen. These videos are usually called “deepfakes”. Even to an experienced eye, it can be a ...
1 Juli 201915min
Revisiting Biased Word Embeddings
The topic of bias in word embeddings gets yet another pass this week. It all started a few years ago, when an analogy task performed on Word2Vec embeddings showed some indications of gender bias aroun...
24 Juni 201918min
Attention in Neural Nets
There’s been a lot of interest lately in the attention mechanism in neural nets—it’s got a colloquial name (who’s not familiar with the idea of “attention”?) but it’s more like a technical trick that’...
17 Juni 201926min
Interview with Joel Grus
This week’s episode is a special one, as we’re welcoming a guest: Joel Grus is a data scientist with a strong software engineering streak, and he does an impressive amount of speaking, writing, and po...
10 Juni 201939min
Re - Release: Factorization Machines
What do you get when you cross a support vector machine with matrix factorization? You get a factorization machine, and a darn fine algorithm for recommendation engines.
3 Juni 201920min
Re-release: Auto-generating websites with deep learning
We've already talked about neural nets in some detail (links below), and in particular we've been blown away by the way that image recognition from convolutional neural nets can be fed into recurrent ...
27 Maj 201919min
Advice to those trying to get a first job in data science
We often hear from folks wondering what advice we can give them as they search for their first job in data science. What does a hiring manager look for? Should someone focus on taking classes online, ...
19 Maj 201917min
