In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote a fantastic article Why Software Is Eating The World. This motivated our title for this podcast. In this podcast we talk about software bugs that have fatal consequences, major financial, and explore why these bugs happen so frequently. Which software are you worried about in your life? Your car? Your Read More ...

If you’re outside of the EU, you may not know about GDPR. In this episode, we invite our friend Maria to discuss the General Data Protection Regulation. We discuss the What? Who? When? Where? We also talk about the business impact of these rules, what it means to implement them, and what is still to Read More ...

Yes, the title is click bait. Yes, we talk about someone who found a strategy to win at Gambling. Yes, we weren’t those people. In those show we talk about the following: Jordy hits a student loan milestone. April 15th is around the corner and we talk about our tax situation; tax man always gets Read More ...

How do you make a computer program understand a language, a natural language, like English? Can we create a program that can create sentences, paragraphs, articles, or stories? In this episode, we explore the basics of Natural Language Processing from Prem Ganeshkumar who is a Lead Natural Language Processing Research Engineer at Agolo in New Read More ...

At Antonio’s latest visit to the Motor Vehicle Commission, he finds out two things. First, sometimes it’s hard to change data once a mistaken occurs. Second, he will take flight before a fight. We then talk about Amazon and the second headquarter that never was. Apparently, Amazon feels like Antonio – they also took flight. Read More ...

Dr. Noemi Derzsy is currently a Senior Inventive Scientist at AT&T Labs within the Data Science and AI Research organization. In addition to getting to know what her position entailed, we wanted to know how she got there (especially given her Physics background), how she thought about the data science discipline, and where she saw Read More ...

In this episode, we interview Dr. Haftan Eckholdt – Chief Data Officer & Chief Science Officer at Understood.org. Understand’s goal is to help the millions of parents whose children, ages 3–20, are struggling with learning and attention issues. Haftan takes us through his journey from rigging computers for distributed computing to generating models associated to Read More ...

Jim Savage is the Head of Data Science at @lendableinc He joins us on the show to take us to school about statistics, his company, the work he’s been doing, and cheap noodles. Jordy and Antonio have Jim make sense of this blog post for them: https://khakieconomics.github.io/2017/01/01/Building-useful-models-for-industry.html Along the way, we learn how Jim’s life Read More ...

As data science imposters, we get to think about the history of things that came before 5G or whatever new whizzbang technology. In this episode, we talk about the origins of Morse code and related items. Did you know that you could play songs using an old phone? Check out this site for some ideas: Read More ...

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