Solving Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals
In episode fourteen we talk with Nando de Freitas. He’s a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior staff research scientist Google DeepMind. Right now he’s focusing on so...
2 Juli 201530min
Working With Data and Machine Learning in Advertising
In episode thirteen we talk with Claudia Perlich, Chief Scientist at Dstillery. We talk about her work using machine learning in digital advertising and her approach to data in competitions. We take a...
18 Juni 201539min
The Economic Impact of Machine Learning and Using The Kernel Trick on Big Data
In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem. We also d...
4 Juni 201540min
How We Think About Privacy and Finding Features in Black Boxes
In episode eleven we chat with Neil Lawrence from the University of Sheffield. We talk about the problems of privacy in the age of machine learning, the responsibilities that come with using ML tools ...
21 Maj 201533min
Interdisciplinary Data and Helping Humans Be Creative
In Episode 10 we talk with David Blei of Columbia University. We talk about his work on latent dirichlet allocation, topic models, the PhD program in data that he’s helping to create at Columbia and w...
7 Maj 201534min
Starting Simple and Machine Learning in Meds
In episode nine we talk with George Dahl, of the University of Toronto, about his work on the Merck molecular activity challenge on kaggle and speech recognition. George recently successfully defende...
23 Apr 201538min
Spinning Programming Plates and Creative Algorithms
On episode eight we talk with Charles Sutton, a professor in the School of Informatics University of Edinburgh about computer programming and using machine learning how to better understand how it’s d...
9 Apr 201535min
The Automatic Statistician and Electrified Meat
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic St...
26 Mars 201545min
