Data Skeptic

By Kyle Polich

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The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.

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05.30.2020

Daniel Kang joins us to discuss the paper Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries.

Data Skeptic episodes:

05.30.2020 Robustness to Unforeseen Adversarial Attacks Daniel Kang joins us to discuss the paper Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries.
05.22.2020 Estimating the Size of Language Acquisition Frank Mollica joins us to discuss the paper Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition
05.15.2020 Interpretable AI in Healthcare Jayaraman Thiagarajan joins us to discuss the recent paper Calibrating Healthcare AI: Towards Reliable and Interpretable Deep Predictive Models.
05.08.2020 Understanding Neural Networks What does it mean to understand a neural network? That’s the question posted on this arXiv paper. Kyle speaks with Tim Lillicrap about this and several other big questions.
05.02.2020 Self-Explaining AI Dan Elton joins us to discuss self-explaining AI. What could be better than an interpretable model? How about a model wich explains itself in a conversational way, engaging in a back and forth with the user. We discuss the paper ...
04.24.2020 Plastic Bag Bans Becca Taylor joins us to discuss her work studying the impact of plastic bag bans as published in Bag Leakage: The Effect of Disposable Carryout Bag Regulations on Unregulated Bags from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. How does ...
04.18.2020 Self Driving Cars and Pedestrians We are joined by Arash Kalatian to discuss Decoding pedestrian and automated vehicle interactions using immersive virtual reality and interpretable deep learning.
04.10.2020 Computer Vision is Not Perfect Computer Vision is not Perfect Julia Evans joins us help answer the question why do neural networks think a panda is a vulture. Kyle talks to Julia about her hands-on work fooling neural networks. Julia runs Wizard Zines which publishes ...
04.04.2020 Uncertainty Representations Jessica Hullman joins us to share her expertise on data visualization and communication of data in the media. We discuss Jessica’s work on visualizing uncertainty, interviewing visualization designers on why they don't visualize uncertainty, and modeling interactions with visualizations as ...
03.28.2020 AlphaGo, COVID-19 Contact Tracing and New Data Set Announcing Journal Club I am pleased to announce Data Skeptic is launching a new spin-off show called "Journal Club" with similar themes but a very different format to the Data Skeptic everyone is used to. In Journal Club, we will ...
03.20.2020 Visualizing Uncertainty
03.13.2020 Interpretability Tooling Pramit Choudhary joins us to talk about the methodologies and tools used to assist with model interpretability.
03.06.2020 Shapley Values Kyle and Linhda discuss how Shapley Values might be a good tool for determining what makes the cut for a home renovation.
02.28.2020 Anchors as Explanations We welcome back Marco Tulio Ribeiro to discuss research he has done since our original discussion on LIME. In particular, we ask the question Are Red Roses Red? and discuss how Anchors provide high precision model-agnostic explanations. Please take our ...
02.22.2020 Mathematical Models of Ecological Systems
02.14.2020 Adversarial Explanations Walt Woods joins us to discuss his paper Adversarial Explanations for Understanding Image Classification Decisions and Improved Neural Network Robustness with co-authors Jack Chen and Christof Teuscher.
02.07.2020 ObjectNet Andrei Barbu joins us to discuss ObjectNet - a new kind of vision dataset. In contrast to ImageNet, ObjectNet seeks to provide images that are more representative of the types of images an autonomous machine is likely to encounter in ...
01.31.2020 Visualization and Interpretability Enrico Bertini joins us to discuss how data visualization can be used to help make machine learning more interpretable and explainable. Find out more about Enrico at http://enrico.bertini.io/. More from Enrico with co-host Moritz Stefaner on the Data Stories podcast!
01.26.2020 Interpretable One Shot Learning We welcome Su Wang back to Data Skeptic to discuss the paper Distributional modeling on a diet: One-shot word learning from text only.
01.22.2020 Fooling Computer Vision Wiebe van Ranst joins us to talk about a project in which specially designed printed images can fool a computer vision system, preventing it from identifying a person. Their attack targets the popular YOLO2 pre-trained image recognition model, and thus, ...
01.14.2020 Algorithmic Fairness This episode includes an interview with Aaron Roth author of The Ethical Algorithm.
01.07.2020 Interpretability Interpretability Machine learning has shown a rapid expansion into every sector and industry. With increasing reliance on models and increasing stakes for the decisions of models, questions of how models actually work are becoming increasingly important to ask. Welcome to ...
12.31.2019 NLP in 2019 A year in recap.
12.24.2019 The Limits of NLP We are joined by Colin Raffel to discuss the paper "Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer".
12.15.2019 Jumpstart Your ML Project Seth Juarez joins us to discuss the toolbox of options available to a data scientist to jumpstart or extend their machine learning efforts.
12.10.2019 Serverless NLP Model Training Alex Reeves joins us to discuss some of the challenges around building a serverless, scalable, generic machine learning pipeline. The is a technical deep dive on architecting solutions and a discussion of some of the design choices made.
12.03.2019 Team Data Science Process Buck Woody joins Kyle to share experiences from the field and the application of the Team Data Science Process - a popular six-phase workflow for doing data science.
12.01.2019 Ancient Text Restoration Thea Sommerschield joins us this week to discuss the development of Pythia - a machine learning model trained to assist in the reconstruction of ancient language text.
11.27.2019 ML Ops Kyle met up with Damian Brady at MS Ignite 2019 to discuss machine learning operations.
11.23.2019 Annotator Bias The modern deep learning approaches to natural language processing are voracious in their demands for large corpora to train on. Folk wisdom estimates used to be around 100k documents were required for effective training. The availability of broadly trained, general-purpose ...
11.20.2019 NLP for Developers While at MS Build 2019, Kyle sat down with Lance Olson from the Applied AI team about how tools like cognitive services and cognitive search enable non-data scientists to access relatively advanced NLP tools out of box, and how more ...
11.13.2019 Indigenous American Language Research Manuel Mager joins us to discuss natural language processing for low and under-resourced languages. We discuss current work in this area and the Naki Project which aggregates research on NLP for native and indigenous languages of the American continent.
10.31.2019 Talking to GPT-2 GPT-2 is yet another in a succession of models like ELMo and BERT which adopt a similar deep learning architecture and train an unsupervised model on a massive text corpus. As we have been covering recently, these approaches are showing ...
10.23.2019 Reproducing Deep Learning Models Rajiv Shah attempted to reproduce an earthquake-predicting deep learning model. His results exposed some issues with the model. Kyle and Rajiv discuss the original paper and Rajiv's analysis.
10.14.2019 What BERT is Not Allyson Ettinger joins us to discuss her work in computational linguistics, specifically in exploring some of the ways in which the popular natural language processing approach BERT has limitations.
10.08.2019 SpanBERT Omer Levy joins us to discuss "SpanBERT: Improving Pre-training by Representing and Predicting Spans". https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10529
09.23.2019 BERT is Shallow Tim Niven joins us this week to discuss his work exploring the limits of what BERT can do on certain natural language tasks such as adversarial attacks, compositional learning, and systematic learning.
09.16.2019 BERT is Magic Kyle pontificates on how impressed he is with BERT.
09.06.2019 Applied Data Science in Industry Kyle sits down with Jen Stirrup to inquire about her experiences helping companies deploy data science solutions in a variety of different settings.
08.19.2019 Building the howto100m Video Corpus Video annotation is an expensive and time-consuming process. As a consequence, the available video datasets are useful but small. The availability of machine transcribed explainer videos offers a unique opportunity to rapidly develop a useful, if dirty, corpus of videos ...
07.29.2019 BERT Kyle provides a non-technical overview of why Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is a powerful tool for natural language processing projects.
07.22.2019 Onnx Kyle interviews Prasanth Pulavarthi about the Onnx format for deep neural networks.
07.15.2019 Catastrophic Forgetting Kyle and Linhda discuss some high level theory of mind and overview the concept machine learning concept of catastrophic forgetting.
07.08.2019 Transfer Learning Sebastian Ruder is a research scientist at DeepMind. In this episode, he joins us to discuss the state of the art in transfer learning and his contributions to it.
06.21.2019 Facebook Bargaining Bots Invented a Language In 2017, Facebook published a paper called Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues. In this research, the reinforcement learning agents developed a mechanism of communication (which could be called a language) that made them able to optimize ...
06.15.2019 Under Resourced Languages Priyanka Biswas joins us in this episode to discuss natural language processing for languages that do not have as many resources as those that are more commonly studied such as English. Successful NLP projects benefit from the availability of like ...
06.08.2019 Named Entity Recognition Kyle and Linh Da discuss the class of approaches called "Named Entity Recognition" or NER. NER algorithms take any string as input and return a list of "entities" - specific facts and agents in the text along with a classification ...
06.01.2019 The Death of a Language USC students from the CAIS++ student organization have created a variety of novel projects under the mission statement of "artificial intelligence for social good". In this episode, Kyle interviews Zane and Leena about the Endangered Languages Project.
05.25.2019 Neural Turing Machines Kyle and Linh Da discuss the concepts behind the neural Turing machine.
05.18.2019 Data Infrastructure in the Cloud Kyle chats with Rohan Kumar about hyperscale, data at the edge, and a variety of other trends in data engineering in the cloud.

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What's Data Skeptic about?

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Data Skeptic episodes:

Robustness to Unforeseen Adversarial Attacks

Estimating the Size of Language Acquisition

Interpretable AI in Healthcare

Understanding Neural Networks

Self-Explaining AI

Plastic Bag Bans

Self Driving Cars and Pedestrians

Computer Vision is Not Perfect

Uncertainty Representations

AlphaGo, COVID-19 Contact Tracing and New Data Set

Visualizing Uncertainty

Interpretability Tooling

Shapley Values

Anchors as Explanations

Mathematical Models of Ecological Systems

Adversarial Explanations

ObjectNet

Visualization and Interpretability

Interpretable One Shot Learning

Fooling Computer Vision

Algorithmic Fairness

Interpretability

NLP in 2019

The Limits of NLP

Jumpstart Your ML Project

Serverless NLP Model Training

Team Data Science Process

Ancient Text Restoration

ML Ops

Annotator Bias

NLP for Developers

Indigenous American Language Research

Talking to GPT-2

Reproducing Deep Learning Models

What BERT is Not

SpanBERT

BERT is Shallow

BERT is Magic

Applied Data Science in Industry

Building the howto100m Video Corpus

BERT

Onnx

Catastrophic Forgetting

Transfer Learning

Facebook Bargaining Bots Invented a Language

Under Resourced Languages

Named Entity Recognition

The Death of a Language

Neural Turing Machines

Data Infrastructure in the Cloud

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