To cap 2022 off, like I did to cap 2021 off, I’m covering the five big lessons that I learned over the course of the year:
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Filtering by Category: Five-Minute Friday
The Equality Machine
Many recent books and articles spread fear about data collection and A.I. Today's guest, Prof. Orly Lobel, offers the antidote with her book "The Equality Machine" — an optimistic take on the future of data science.
Liquid Neural Networks
Liquid Neural Networks are a new, biology-inspired deep learning approach that could be transformative. I think they're super cool and Adrian Kosowski, PhD introduced them to me for today's Five-Minute Friday episode.
The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
Resilient Machine Learning
Machine learning is often fragile in production. For today's Five-Minute Friday episode, Dr. Dan Shiebler details how we can make ML more resilient.
The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
The Critical Human Element of Successful A.I. Deployments
For today's episode, I sat down with the prolific data-science instructor, author and practitioner Keith McCormick to discuss how critical user considerations are for developing a successful A.I. application.
The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
Subword Tokenization with Byte-Pair Encoding
When working with written natural language data as we do with many natural language processing models, a step we typically carry out while preprocessing the data is tokenization. In a nutshell, tokenization is the conversion of a long string of characters into smaller units that we call tokens.
Read MoreImagen Video: Incredible Text-to-Video Generation
For today’s Five-Minute Friday episode, it’s my pleasure to introduce you to the Imagen Video model published upon just a few weeks ago by researchers from Google.
Read MoreBurnout: Causes and Solutions
What really is Burnout? What causes it? And how can you prevent or treat it? Prof. Christina Maslach — world-leading researcher and author on Burnout — joins me for today's episode to unpack these questions.
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
OpenAI Whisper: General-Purpose Speech Recognition
One of the challenges holding machines back from approaching human-level speech recognition like Whisper has has been acquiring sufficiently large amounts of high-quality, labeled training data. “Labeled” in this case means audio of speech that has a corresponding text associated with it. With enough of these labeled data, a machine learning model can learn to take in speech audio as an input and then output the correct corresponding text.
Read MoreThe Joy of Atelic Activities
You might think to yourself “I could be spending this time productively!” But pushing past these inner calls for productivity and leaning into the initial discomfort of atelic activities is likely to be rewarding. When you’re consumed by telic activities, by always pursuing outcomes, you’re missing out on being, on appreciating being alive for the fleeting moments that you have.
Read MoreMore Guests on Fridays
Going forward, we are still going to have short, five-minute-ish episodes on Friday that feature me solo, but we will increasingly be interspersing in inspiring guests. And I won’t be making an effort to have these Friday guest episodes be anywhere near five minutes long — to start, I’m thinking of having them typically be 20 to 30 minutes long, but we’ll see how it goes with the guests and what the reception is like from you.
Read MoreWho Dares Wins
Even if we don’t achieve what we originally set out to achieve, by having dared to achieve it, by having taken action in the direction of the achievement, we learn from the experience and we gain invaluable information about ourselves and the world. Having dared, we find ourselves at a new, enriched vantage point that we otherwise would never have ventured to. From there, whether we achieved the original goal or not, we can iterate — dare again — perhaps to achieve success at the original objective or perhaps we identify some entirely new objective that would have otherwise been inconceivable without having dared.
Read MoreDaily Habit #11: Assigning Deliverables
To ensure that deliverables are assigned, if you’re running the meeting you can formally set the final meeting agenda item to be something like “assign deliverables”. If you’re not running the meeting, you can suggest having this final agenda item to the meeting organizer at the meeting’s outset or even as the meeting begins to wrap up. By assigning deliverables in this way, we not only make the best use of everyone’s time going forward, but we also maximize the probability that all of the essential action items are actually delivered upon.
Read MoreWe Are Living in Ancient Times
This article was originally adapted from a podcast, which you can check out here.
James Clear recently drew my attention to a quote by the writer Teresa Nielsen Hayden that I find fascinating and mind-boggling… and that I also vehemently agree with:
“My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world. We are hardly more than an eye blink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters. We live in extremely interesting ancient times.”
Read MoreYoga Nidra Practice
Rest and relaxation await as Steve Fazzari joins us this week for a special edition of the podcast! Tune in for a rejuvenating session of Yoga Nidra led beautifully by the expert.
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
Getting Kids Excited about STEM Subjects
For the fourth and final Friday episode featuring the inimitable Ben Taylor, he provides guidance on how to get kids excited about STEM (science, tech, engineering, math) subjects.
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
The A.I. Platforms of the Future
Ben Taylor returns for a third consecutive Five-Minute Friday! This week, he helps us look ahead and dig into what we can expect from the A.I. platforms of the future.
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
Why CEOs Care About A.I. More than Other Technologies
Ben Taylor is back for another Five-Minute Friday this week, this time to fill us in on why CEOs care more about A.I. than any other technology and how to sell them on your machine learning solution.
Special shout-out to my puppy Oboe who features indispensably in the video version of this episode... on Ben's lap! 🐶
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
How to Sell a Multimillion Dollar A.I. Contract
Starting today and running for four consecutive weeks, Five-Minute Friday episodes of SuperDataScience feature Ben Taylor as my guest. Each week, he answers a specific ML commercialization or education question.
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.
Artificial General Intelligence is Not Nigh (Part 2 of 2)
Last week, I argued that "Artificial General Intelligence" — an algorithm with the learning capabilities of a human — will not arrive anytime soon. This week, I bolster my argument by summarizing points from luminary Yann LeCun.
The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.