Bonus: Season 1 Recap

Angelo begins this episode with reflections on history and what brought us to the AI Winter.  Why do we need a balance between research and practice?  You don’t want to rediscover what has already been discovered or settle for something that could be better if you took the time to research a bit more.  

In episode 4 we meet Angelo’s friend Andy Lee who talks about computer science predicting our biological age.  Andy actually met Greg Fahy who talked about longevity.  The study focused on injecting the thymus gland with a growth hormone that produced regeneration effects.  The effects were measured through the epigenetic clock known as DNA methylation.

In Episode 6, Jim Shalaby talks with Angelo about how COVID-19 changed healthcare forever.  Patients don’t have to wait in waiting rooms, they don’t have to find transportation to get there, and the patient has access to the clinicians.  

The hard problems associated with explainability in artificial neural networks, we talked about in Episode 8.  Angelo’s friend Nikos explained to us about five classic problems, one of which includes data privacy.  Another big issue is developing a machine learning system to create adversarial attacks on the existing system.

In episode 7, Angelo’s friend Manos shared how complicated it is for people to invoke their right to have their data removed from a system.  Typically those systems have to schedule deletions to remove the data through tombstones and a process called compacting.

What is on the horizon and what should we be paying attention to?  We are going to run against barriers of technology. For instance, Moore's law is coming to an end. What do we do about that?  What is happening in the short-term and how do we get past this barrier to the next?  And then how do we blow away all those barriers with moonshots like quantum computing?

Finally, wrapping up our first season, Angelo wants to reflect on gratitude.  Gratitude for you our listeners.  Thank you so much for joining us on this journey. We really want to hear about your thoughts. The show is evolving just as the world is and we want to make sure that we're covering topics that you're interested in.

We would love for you to follow, rate, and review the show on your favorite podcast platform so that others can find us too. Thank you so much for listening.

Our Guests - Thank you!:

Nikos Myrtakis on  LinkedIn

Manos Athanassoulis on LinkedIn and Boston University
Jim Shalaby on Twitter and LinkedIn

Andy Lee on Twitter and LinkedIn

About the Host

Angelo Kastroulis is an award-winning technologist, inventor, entrepreneur, speaker, data scientist, and author best known for his high-performance computing and Health IT experience. He is the principal consultant, lead architect, and owner of Carrera Group, a consulting firm specializing in software modernization, event streaming (Kafka), big data, analytics (Spark, elastic Search, and Graph), and high-performance software development on many technical stacks (Java, .net, Scala, C++, and Rust). A Data Scientist at heart, trained at the Harvard Data Systems Lab, Angelo enjoys a research-driven approach to creating powerful, massively scalable applications and innovating new methods for superior performance. He loves to educate, discover, then see the knowledge through to practical implementation.

Host: Angelo Kastroulis

Executive Producer: Kerri Patterson; 

Producer: Albert Perrotta;

Communications Strategist: Albert Perrotta;

Audio Engineer: Ryan Thompson

Music: All Things Grow by Oliver Worth

Host: Angelo Kastroulis

Executive Producer: Náture Kastroulis

Producer: Albert Perrotta

Communications Strategist: Albert Perrotta

Video/Audio Engineer: Ryan Thompson

Music: All Things Grow by Oliver Worth