Data Science at Home

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August 17, 2021Reinforcement Learning is all you need. Or is it? (Ep. 165)
Is reinforcement learning sufficient to build truly intelligent machines? Listen to this episode to find out.
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References
https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/06/07/deepmind-artificial-intelligence-reward-maximization/
https://pub.towardsai.net/building-reinforcement-learning-agents-that-learn-to-collaborate-and-compete-at-the-same-time-d081fea942d2
https://towardsdatascience.com/intro-to-reinforcement-learning-temporal-difference-learning-sarsa-vs-q-learning-8b4184bb4978
31 min
August 11, 2021What's happening with AI today? (Ep. 164)
In this episode I have a wonderful chat with Ronald Schmelzer and Kathleen Walch, authors of "AI Today" the top podcast for those wanting a no-hype, practical, real-world insight into what enterprises, public sector agencies, thought leaders, leading technology companies, pundits, and experts are doing with AI today.

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Links
AI Today podcast: http://aitoday.live/
CPMAI Methodology: https://www.cognilytica.com/cpmai-methodology/
26 min
August 03, 20212 effective ways to explain your predictions (Ep. 163)
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References
Fisher, Aaron, Cynthia Rudin, and Francesca Dominici. “Model Class Reliance: Variable importance measures for any machine learning model class, from the ‘Rashomon’ perspective.” http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01489 (2018).
Python SHAP
https://github.com/slundberg/shap
25 min
July 22, 2021 The Netflix challenge. Fair or what? (Ep. 162)
Remember the Netflix challenge?
It was a ton of money for the one who would have cracked the problem of recommending the best possible movie.
Was it a fair challenge? Did it work?
Let me tell you what happened...

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22 min
July 15, 2021Artificial Intelligence for Blockchains with Jonathan Ward CTO of Fetch AI (Ep. 161)
In this episode Fetch AI CTO Jonathan Ward speaks about decentralization, AI, blockchain for smart cities and the enterprise.
Below some great links about collective learning, smart contracts in Rust and the Fetch AI ecosystem.
Decentralised collective learning: https://github.com/fetchai/colearn
Smart contracting platform written in Rust https://docs.cosmwasm.com/docs/0.14/
Fetch.ai cosmwasm contracts for collective learning: https://github.com/fetchai/contract-learn
How the Colearn system works: https://vimeo.com/440365943
33 min
July 08, 2021 Apache Arrow, Ballista and Big Data in Rust with Andy Grove RB (Ep. 160)
Do you want to know the latest in big data analytics frameworks? Have you ever heard of Apache Arrow? Rust? Ballista? In this episode I speak with Andy Grove one of the main authors of Apache Arrow and Ballista compute engine.
Andy explains some challenges while he was designing the Arrow and Ballista memory models and he describes some amazing solutions.

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Amethix use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to build data platforms and predictive engines in domain like finance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, logistics, energy. Amethix provide solutions to collect and secure data with higher transparency and disintermediation, and build the statistical models that will support your business.

References

https://arrow.apache.org/

https://ballistacompute.org/

https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista

30 min
July 06, 2021 GitHub Copilot: yay or nay? (Ep. 159)
It made already quite some noise in the news, GitHub copilot promises to be your pair programmer for life.
In this episode I explain how and what GitHub copilot does. Should developers be happy, scared or just keep coding the traditional way?

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33 min
July 01, 2021 Pandas vs Rust [RB] (Ep. 158)
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32 min
June 22, 2021A simple trick for very unbalanced data (Ep. 157)
Data from the real world are never perfectly balanced. In this episode I explain a simple yet effective trick to train models with very unbalanced data. Enjoy the show!

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References
Leo Breiman, Random Forests, 2001
C. Chen, A. Liaw, L. Breiman, Using Random Forest to Learn Imbalanced Data (2004)
23 min
June 15, 2021Time to take your data back with Tapmydata (Ep. 156)
In this episode I am with Gilbert Hill, head of strategy at https://tapmydata.com/
We speak about personal data, blockchain and the ability to control it and monetize with another simple yet effective app in the ecosystem.

References
https://tapmydata.com/
https://medium.com/@tholder/we-dont-want-your-data-pushing-boundaries-in-data-collection-and-end-to-end-encryption-for-apps-ebd1d5f79df5
42 min