Dan Burcaw on Entrepreneurship, Using AI to Stop Customer Churn, and Deploying Code onto Nuclear Submarines

In this episode, Frank and Andy speak with Dan Burcaw on Entrepreneurship, Using AI to Stop Customer Churn, and Deploying Code onto Nuclear Submarines.Show Notes

TranscriptThe following transcript is AI generated. 00:00:00 BAILeY Hello and welcome to data driven. 00:00:02 BAILeY The podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. 00:00:09 BAILeY In this episode, Frank and Andy speak with Dan Burke or Dan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded four companies each on the forefront of a major technology wave, open source software, the smartphone. 00:00:23 BAILeY Cloud computing and now machine learning. 00:00:26 BAILeY Currently he leads Nam Eml, a company focused on helping app developers start and grow mobile subscription businesses. 00:00:34 BAILeY If you follow Frank and or Andy on social media, you certainly have heard them bang on about their secret project. 00:00:41 BAILeY I will drop a one word hint here foreshadowing. 00:00:45 BAILeY Now on with the show. 00:00:48 Frank Hello and welcome back to data driven. 00:00:50 Frank The podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science machine learning, an artificial intelligence, and if you like to think of data as the new oil, then you could consider us Car Talk. 00:01:02 Frank Because we focus on where the rubber hits the road. 00:01:05 Frank So with that as my guest on this pandemic road trip, that hasn't happened. 00:01:13 Yeah. 00:01:13 Frank By my copilot here is Andy Leonard. 00:01:16 Frank How you doing Andy? 00:01:17 Andy Hey, I'm doing pretty good Frank how are you? 00:01:20 Frank I'm doing well, I'm doing well. 00:01:21 Frank I had a kind of an architecture session this morning, so that went really well. 00:01:27 Frank It was. 00:01:28 Frank It was an interesting conversation and I love doing those. 00:01:31 Frank Those are always fun. 00:01:32 Frank How about? 00:01:32 Andy Yeah. 00:01:33 Andy Yeah, so I'm proofing the next book. 00:01:36 Andy Proofing is the absolute last chance to remove all of the typos I've left in. 00:01:42 Andy As I've gone through the last three full edit sessions and there's still some there. 00:01:47 Andy Frank, I'm convinced that the next book is going to have, you know, have a fair share of those. 00:01:52 Andy What I'm really concerned about. 00:01:54 Andy Is making sure that the demos work an yeah that's you know it's it's tedious and it's the LastPass so you know it's like is this over yet? Yeah, I'm sick and tired of reading this guy's writing and it's me so. 00:02:10 Andy Yeah no. 00:02:10 Andy But yeah. 00:02:12 Frank That was the hardest part. 00:02:13 Frank People asking. 00:02:14 Frank Like when I wrote a book on Silverlight an aside from it being about Silverlight, the hardest thing wasn't so much writing, it was having to go back and re edit my own stuff and like. 00:02:24 Frank You know, and I would look at it and be like man like I'm a terrible or. 00:02:28 Andy That's I have said over and over again to my computer monitor who wrote this crap. 00:02:33 Andy By a friend if you live. 00:02:33 Andy But Fortunately for this is a second edition, so an it's one of those second editions where I kept the first 10 or 11 chapters. 00:02:43 Andy I I changed from my writing language. 00:02:46 Andy I wrote it like three years ago. 00:02:48 Andy And I really this grew out of a series of blog posts that I wrote back in 2012. It was all in VB back...