Software and Statistics for Machine Learning
In episode six of season two, we talk about how to build software for machine learning (and what the roadblocks are), we take a listener question about how to start exploring a new dataset, plus, we t...
24 Mars 201639min
Machine Learning in Healthcare and The AlphaGo Matches
In episode five of Season two Ryan walks us through variational inference, we put some listener questions about Go and how to play it to Andy Okun, president of the American Go Association (who is in ...
10 Mars 201648min
AI Safety and The Legacy of Bletchley Park
In episode four of season two, we talk about some of the major issues in AI safety, (and how they’re not really that different from the questions we ask whenever we create a new tool.) One place you c...
25 Feb 201648min
Robotics and Machine Learning Music Videos
In episode three of season two Ryan walks us through the Alpha Go results and takes a lister question about using Gaussian processes for classifications. Plus we talk with Michael Littman of Brown Uni...
11 Feb 201640min
OpenAI and Gaussian Processes
In episode two of season two Ryan introduces us to Gaussian processes, we take a listener question on K-means. Plus, we talk with Ilya Sutskever the director of research for OpenAI. (For more from Ily...
28 Jan 201635min
Real Human Actions and Women in Machine Learning
In episode one of season two, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Women in Machine Learning (WiML) with its co-founder (and our guest host for this episode) Hanna Wallach of Microsoft Research. Hanna...
14 Jan 201659min
Open Source Releases and The End of Season One
In episode twenty four we talk with Ben Vigoda about his work in probabilistic programming (everything from his thesis, to his new company) Ryan talks about Tensor Flow and Autograd for Torch, some op...
22 Nov 201540min
Probabilistic Programming and Digital Humanities
In episode 23 we talk with David Mimno of Cornell University about his work in the digital humanities (and explore what machine learning can tell us about lady zombie ghosts and huge bodies of literat...
5 Nov 201548min
