Adversarial Learning

By Joel Grus

@joelgrus and @akm talk about data, science, data science, Shingy, and whatever else they feel like... more

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The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.

Adversarial Learning episodes:

March 20, 2023 Adversarial Restarting
It's been a couple of years, so Joel and Andrew catch up on what's new in life and in data science.
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58min
August 06, 2020 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.
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54min
June 15, 2020 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.
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1h 32min
May 16, 2020 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.

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52min
March 22, 2020 Adversarial Distancing - Episode 1
in which Joel and Andrew briefly break quarantine to talk about Covid-19, social distancing, and the data science grift
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40min
November 08, 2019Episode 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

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1h
October 30, 2019 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
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1h 10min
May 24, 2019 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.
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50min
March 12, 2019Episode 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

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1h 9min
February 04, 2019 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.
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1h 14min

FAQs about Adversarial Learning:

How many episodes does Adversarial Learning have?

The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.