Adversarial Learning

Adversarial Learning

By Joel GrusTechnology
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Adversarial Learning episodes

  • Adversarial Distancing, Episode 4: Joel's Fizz Buzz Book
    It turns out Joel wrote another book: Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz (Quarantine does strange things to a person.)
    In this episode Andrew and Joel discuss Fizz Buzz, what makes the book interesting, the value of deconstructing problems in different ways, Joel's side career in acting, why fluffy talks are easier to write than technical talks, the importance of staying fresh, whether "blocklist admin" is the job of the future, Minecraft classes, and how the quarantine is affecting our kids.
    Please listen to it.
    54 min
  • Adversarial Distancing, Episode 3: Two Conversations with Jowanza
    About a month ago we recorded a podcast with Jowanza Joseph about engineering and COVID-19 and other mundane topics.
    While I (Joel) was procrastinating on editing it, a lot happened in the world. And then Jowanza wrote a blog post about his experiences with racism and how they've affected his life.
    Which made it feel really weird to just put out an episode with him that doesn't mention any of these issues. So the three of us went back into the (metaphorical) studio and recorded another episode mostly about his blog post, about racism, and about the state of the world. (As always, we are incapable of staying 100% on-topic, but we did pretty good.)
    These aren't necessarily easy topics to discuss, but I think we did a respectful job of it, and I hope you find it interesting and worthwhile. The original podcast episode follows the new one, so you get two episodes in one.
    Please listen to it.
    1 hr 32 min
  • Adversarial Distancing - Episode 2

    Joel and Andrew break quarantine (metaphorically) to discuss treehouses, remote work, distance schooling, outschool.com, Joel's attempt to teach his daughter Python, old-school text adventures, socially-distanced eating, the Twitter UI, what happens to school in the fall, OKRs, and whether we should keep the economy closed or re-open it and kill people.

    Please listen to it.

    52 min
  • Episode 21: The Cold Start Problem for Becoming a DJ

    Our guest this week is Pardis Noorzad (@djpardis), former data science manager at Twitter and now Head of Data Science at Carbon Health. Our conversation spans a wide range of topics:

    • the Tenderloin
    • Carbon Health
    • what Duran Duran has to do with Black History Month
    • the "cold start problem" for becoming a DJ
    • how long it takes to achieve domain expertise
    • how many people there are in Canada
    • how getting that first data science job is like DJ-ing
    • loyalty
    • the Go programming language
    • the Hopper-Causey effect
    • data science as quality control

    Please listen to it.

    1 hr
  • Episode 20: Churn! Churn! Churn!
    Our guest this episode is Carl Gold (@carl24k),
    Chief Data Scientist at Zuora and author of the forthcoming book
    Fighting Churn with Data.
    Use the discount code podadvl19 to save some unspecified amount on it.
    Topics include
    * churn
    * writing a book
    * churn
    * running a subscription business
    * churn
    * domain expertise
    * p-hacking
    * churn
    * how Joel picks what song to use for the podcast intro
    * churn
    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode 19: Writing the Same Book Twice
    On this episode, Andrew is joined by Joel Grus (@joelgrus), the author of Data Science from Scratch, whose second edition just came out. They discuss spreadsheets, writing a book, Python 3, type annotations, Jupyter notebooks, reproducibility, and what it's like to do standup comedy at a conference that has a code of conduct.
    Please listen to it.
    50 min
  • Episode 18: Never Insult a Pigeon Driving a Bus

    Our guest this episode is data scientist Peadar Coyle.

    Topics include

    • Brexit
    • whether Europe is a Python continent or an R continent
    • GDPR
    • how data science is different in Europe than it is in the USA
    • Joel's stock rant against "domain expertise"
    • PyMC3 and Bayesian Analysis
    • teaching online courses
    • whether "primer" is pronounced "primer" or "primer"
    • what Joel and Andrew are most excited about in data science

    Please listen to it.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 17: Josh Wills
    Adversarial Learning is back from its extended hiatus!
    Our guest is famous data scientist Josh Wills.
    We discuss why Josh is a famous data scientist,
    what it's like working at Slack,
    data science conferences,
    NLP's "imagenet moment",
    whether Joel should remove the MapReduce chapter from the 2nd edition of Data Science from Scratch,
    and which is the best Rush album.
    Please listen to it.
    1 hr 14 min

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