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Modelling Evolution

Data Skeptic - May 09, 2024 02:06 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
Modeling evolutionary processes goes way beyond the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium we all learned in biology class. Natural selection comes from many sources like resources availability, mate preferences, competition. Modeling entire populations of organisms of different species is the holy grail of...

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Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas | Season 5 Episode 6

Casual Inference - May 01, 2024 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratings
Aaditya Ramdas is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning. His research interests include game-theoretic statistics and sequential anytime-valid inference, multiple testing and post-selection inference, and uncertainty quantific...

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Behavioral Genetics

Data Skeptic - April 30, 2024 13:57 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
It’s almost impossible to think about animal behavior without thinking of dogs! Our canine friends are a subspecies of wolf that has been co-evolving with us for tens of thousands of years. The transition from wolf to pet has required intense natural and artificial selection for behaviors that a...

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Controlling Fusion Reactor Instability with Deep Reinforcement Learning with Aza Jalalvand - #682

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - April 29, 2024 20:22 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratings
Today we're joined by Azarakhsh (Aza) Jalalvand, a research scholar at Princeton University, to discuss his work using deep reinforcement learning to control plasma instabilities in nuclear fusion reactors. Aza explains his team developed a model to detect and avoid a fatal plasma instability cal...

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Tim Kühn | Unlocking Data Integration at Lightspeed with Keboola

Data & Impact - a Passion2Knowledge Experience - April 26, 2024 11:23 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
On episode 17 of Data & Impact, we dive into data integration automation with Tim Kühn, Solutions Architect at Keboola.  Learn how Keboola tackles the challenges of managing complex data pipelines from various sources. Discover how Keboola's low-code/no-code approach, pre-built connectors, and...

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Signal in the Noise

Data Skeptic - April 25, 2024 00:03 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
In this episode, we are joined by Barbara Webb and Anna Hadjitofi. Barbara runs the Insect Robotics lab at the University of Edinburgh, and Anna is a PhD student at the School of Informatics at the university. She is interested in studying and understanding the neural mechanism of the honeybee w...

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GraphRAG: Knowledge Graphs for AI Applications with Kirk Marple - #681

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - April 22, 2024 18:58 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratings
Today we're joined by Kirk Marple, CEO and founder of Graphlit, to explore the emerging paradigm of "GraphRAG," or Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation. In our conversation, Kirk digs into the GraphRAG architecture and how Graphlit uses it to offer a multi-stage workflow for ingesting, processing...

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Finding Peace Amidst Chaos | Dr. Davron James | 564

Leveraging Thought Leadership - April 21, 2024 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Join us for a riveting episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership  as host Bill Sherman welcomes Dr. Davron James, a renowned public speaker, life coach, and the host of the weekly live radio program, "Everyday Peace" on the Unity Online Radio Network. In this enlightening conversation, Dr. J...

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A Matter of Semantics: Summit Preview

DM Radio - April 18, 2024 23:36 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
DM Radio is the world's longest-running show about data! Since 2008, we've interviewed the industry's brightest minds about AI, analytics, big data, cloud, data warehousing, digital transformation, Internet of Things (IoT), streaming and many other topics. Now broadcasting coast-to-coast, we're a...

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Pioneering Preventive Medicine | Dr. Helen Messier | 563

Leveraging Thought Leadership - April 18, 2024 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Join us for an enlightening conversation on the latest episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership with esteemed guest Dr. Helen Mesier, a trailblazer in the field of translational medicine. Dr. Mesier shares her remarkable journey from a childhood dream of becoming a family doctor to her current r...

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Cookies, Causal Inference, and Careers with Ingrid Giesinger #Epicookiechallenge | Season 5 Episode 5

Casual Inference - April 17, 2024 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratings
Ingrid is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.  Winning cookie recipe Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucyStats 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph...

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Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning with Alex Havrilla - #680

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - April 16, 2024 22:58 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratings
Today we're joined by Alex Havrilla, a PhD student at Georgia Tech, to discuss "Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning." Alex discusses the role of creativity and exploration in problem solving and explores the opportunities presented by applying reinforcement learni...

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Pose Tracking

Data Skeptic - April 16, 2024 06:59 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
Many researchers and students have painstakingly labeled precise details about the body positions of the creatures they study. Can AI be used for this labeling? Of course it can! Today's episode discusses Social LEAP Estimates Animal Poses (SLEAP), a software solution to train AI to perform this...

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From Refugee to PhD | Dr. Pradeepkumar Sacitharan | 562

Leveraging Thought Leadership - April 11, 2024 03:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Welcome to another insightful episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership with your host, Peter Winick. Today, we are honored to have Dr. Pradeepkumar Sacitharan, the CEO of Donsfield, a distinguished global business and trade development firm dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations t...

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Localizing and Editing Knowledge in LLMs with Peter Hase - #679

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - April 08, 2024 21:03 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratings
Today we're joined by Peter Hase, a fifth-year PhD student at the University of North Carolina NLP lab. We discuss "scalable oversight", and the importance of developing a deeper understanding of how large neural networks make decisions. We learn how matrices are probed by interpretability resear...

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Modeling Group Behavior

Data Skeptic - April 08, 2024 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
Our guest in this episode is Sebastien Motsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, working in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Science. He works on modeling self-organized biological systems to understand how complex patterns emerge.

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Transforming Complex Concepts into Accessible Strategies | Anton Skornyakov| 561

Leveraging Thought Leadership - April 07, 2024 03:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Step into the world of thought leadership with host Bill Sherman on the latest episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership. Joining him is Anton Skornyakov, the Managing Director and co-founder of Agile.Coach, who brings a wealth of knowledge from his diverse background in mathematics, physics, and...

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Black Boxes and Broken Rules: the Future of Data?

DM Radio - April 04, 2024 21:59 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Policies were made to be broken. Users don't like to read instructions. And ChatGPT is a giant black box. What's the worst that could happen? Find out on this episode of DM Radio, as Host @eric_kavanagh interviews three DataVengers who will speak at the Data Universe Conference in New York nex...

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Taking Thought Leadership from Page to Practice | Liz Wiseman | 560

Leveraging Thought Leadership - April 04, 2024 03:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Welcome to the latest episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership featuring our special guest, Liz Wiseman, CEO of the Wiseman Group and renowned author of bestsellers like "Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter" and "Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Wo...

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What is behind the Klamath dam removals? S14E1

Engineering Out Loud - April 03, 2024 19:04 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
This is a historic year on the Klamath River, where the biggest dam removal in the U.S. is underway. The hope for the monumental engineering project is that it will restore some balance to a damaged ecological system. We hear from Mark Bransom, who is overseeing the demolition and restoration, a...

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Analyzing the Analysts: Reproducibility with Nick Huntington-Klein | Season 5 Episode 4

Casual Inference - April 03, 2024 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratings
Nick Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University. His research focus is econometrics, causal inference, and higher education policy. He’s also the author of an introductory causal inference textbook called The E...

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Analyzing the analysts: reproducibility with Nick Huntington-Klein | Season 5 Episode 4

Casual Inference - April 03, 2024 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratings
Nick Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University. His research focus is econometrics, causal inference, and higher education policy. He’s also the author of an introductory causal inference textbook called The E...

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Coercing LLMs to Do and Reveal (Almost) Anything with Jonas Geiping - #678

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - April 01, 2024 19:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratings
Today we're joined by Jonas Geiping, a research group leader at the ELLIS Institute, to explore his paper: "Coercing LLMs to Do and Reveal (Almost) Anything". Jonas explains how neural networks can be exploited, highlighting the risk of deploying LLM agents that interact with the real world. We d...

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Understanding the Universe of Data

DM Radio - March 28, 2024 22:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Can you speak data? If so, you are data literate! It's an incredibly valuable skill in the modern world, and it involves much more than knowing the difference between rows and columns. Data literacy means having the ability to understand, work with, analyze, and communicate with data. This inclu...

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Andi Hila | AI Revolutionizing Healthcare

Data & Impact - a Passion2Knowledge Experience - March 27, 2024 11:43 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In episode 16, we dive into the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. We welcome back Columbus's own Andi Hila, VP of Product at Genome Medical, to discuss the current state of AI adoption, its impact on diagnostics, drug discovery, and patient care. We explore the ...

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V-JEPA, AI Reasoning from a Non-Generative Architecture with Mido Assran - #677

The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) - March 25, 2024 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 323 ratings
Today we’re joined by Mido Assran, a research scientist at Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR). In this conversation, we discuss V-JEPA, a new model being billed as “the next step in Yann LeCun's vision” for true artificial reasoning. V-JEPA, the video version of Meta’s Joint Embedding Predicti...

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Advances in Data Loggers

Data Skeptic - March 25, 2024 13:04 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
Our guest in this episode is Ryan Hanscom. Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in a joint doctoral evolution program at San Diego State University and the University of California, Riverside. He is a terrestrial ecologist with a focus on herpetology and mammalogy.  Ryan discussed how the behavior of rattl...

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Resilience Redefined | Marie-Hélène Pelletier | 559

Leveraging Thought Leadership - March 24, 2024 03:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
In this podcast episode, Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier, author of "The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health," shares insights into resilience and its profound impact on work performance and mental well-being. Dr. Pelletier discusses how he...

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From RAG to Riches: GenAI Workshop Preview

DM Radio - March 21, 2024 23:24 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
As the biggest technology shift since the Internet, GenAI continues to shatter traditional mindsets about how work should be done. Engines like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude can not only generate compelling text and imagery, they can perform complex tasks like ETL, the bread-and-butter of data tran...

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How to 'Edge' Out the Competition With Data

DM Radio - March 21, 2024 23:12 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Where is the edge, exactly? And what value can it bring to your business? Simply put, the 'edge' is just about anywhere that you can install a sensor of some kind. Cell phones, oil rigs, cars, toys -- any object with a sensor can live on the edge, as Aerosmith might muse. Learn all about this f...