Christoph Molnar is the author of the Leanpub book Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Christoph about his background, what it takes to work on a Ph.D., his book and interpretability, as well as machine learning generally, some dystopian possibilities for the future, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author, including the systemic use of a free translation tool.

This interview was recorded on January 22, 2019.

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This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.