Want to become a data scientist? Jon and Adam discuss the key steps to becoming a data scientist, with a focus on developing portfolio projects. Hear about the 10 project ideas Adam recommends in his book to help you stand out in the data science community.

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Tidyverse, ggplot2, and the secret to a tech company’s longevity: Hadley Wickham talks to Jon Krohn about Posit’s rebrand, Tidyverse and why it needs to be in every data scientist’s toolkit, and why getting your hands dirty with open-source projects can be so lucrative for your career.

This episode is brought to you by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• All about the Tidyverse [04:46]
• Hadley’s favorite R libraries [17:10]
• The goal of Posit [30:29]
• On bringing multiple programming languages together [36:02]
• The principles for a long-lasting tech company [52:10]
• How Hadley developed ggplot2 [55:24]
• How to contribute to the open-source community [1:05:43]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/779

Mixtral 8x22B is the focus on this week's Five-Minute Friday. Jon Krohn examines how this model from French AI startup Mistral leverages its mixture-of-experts architecture to redefine efficiency and specialization in AI-powered tasks. Tune in to learn about its performance benchmarks and the transformative potential of its open-source license.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/778

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Generative AI is reshaping our world, and Bernard Marr, world-renowned futurist and best-selling author, joins Jon Krohn to guide us through this transformation. In this episode, Bernard shares his insights on how AI is transforming industries, revolutionizing daily life, and addressing global challenges. With his extensive experience advising top organizations worldwide, he also examines the ethical considerations of AI deployment.

This episode is brought to you by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• How Generative AI will transform industries [03:55]
• The evolution of Generative AI [10:19]
• How will Generative AI impact daily life [16:52]
• The ethical challenges of AI [18:55]
• How corporations can harness Generative AI for collaboration [24:36]
• Industries that will be impacted by Generative AI [32:20]
• How Sora-like Generative AI systems will create highly immersive entertainment [42:16]
• How Generative AI could unlock 99% of business data [53:34]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/777

What are the risks of AI progressing beyond a point of no return? What do we stand to gain? On this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn talks ‘books’ as he outlines two nonfiction works on AI and futurism by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. Listen to a breakdown of Deep Utopia and Superintelligence in this episode.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/776

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Tech entrepreneurship, artificial superintelligence, and the future of education: Aleksa Gordić speaks to Jon Krohn about his strategies for self-directed learning, the traits that help people succeed in moving from big tech to entrepreneurship, and the social impact of artificial superintelligence.

This episode is brought to you by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• How to motivate yourself to become a tech entrepreneur [17:02]
• Aleksa’s checklist for the perfect CTO [35:00]
• Potential sustainable solutions for LLMs [41:51]
• The next major developments in AI and tech [48:29]
• How hobbies have a knock-on effect for a person’s career [1:01:53]
• How and why formal education needs to change [1:09:24]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/775

Covariant's RFM-1: Jon Krohn explores the future of AI-driven robotics with RFM-1, a groundbreaking robot arm designed by Covariant and discussed by A.I. roboticist Pieter Abbeel. Explore how this innovation aims to merge digital intelligence with the physical world, promising a new era of efficiency and autonomy.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/774

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Dr. Barrett Thomas, an award-winning Research Professor at the University of Iowa, explores the intricacies of Markov decision processes and their connection to Deep Reinforcement Learning. Discover how these concepts are applied in operations research to enhance business efficiency and drive innovations in same-day delivery and autonomous transportation systems.

This episode is brought to you by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Barrett's start in operations logistics [02:27]
• Concorde Solver and the traveling salesperson problem [09:59]
• Cross-function approximation explained [19:13]
• How Markov decision processes relate to deep reinforcement learning [26:08]
• Understanding policy in decision-making contexts [33:40]
• Revolutionizing supply chains and transportation with aerial drones [46:47]
• Barrett’s career evolution: past changes and future prospects [52:19]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/773

Pytorch benefits, how to get funding for your AI startup, and managing scientific silos: In our new series for SuperDataScience, “In Case You Missed It”, host Jon Krohn engages in some “reinforcement learning through human feedback” of his own with need-to-hear sound bites from past SDS episodes!

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/772

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Kirill Eremenko joins Jon Krohn for another exclusive, in-depth teaser for a new course just released on the SuperDataScience platform, “Machine Learning Level 2”. Kirill walks listeners through why decision trees and random forests are fruitful for businesses, and he offers hands-on walkthroughs for the three leading gradient-boosting algorithms today: XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost.

This episode is brought to you by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility, and by Data Universe, the out-of-this-world data conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• All about decision trees [09:17]
• All about ensemble models [21:43]
• All about AdaBoost [36:47]
• All about gradient boosting [45:52]
• Gradient boosting for classification problems [59:54]
• Advantages of XGBoost [1:03:51]
• LightGBM [1:17:06]
• CatBoost [1:32:07]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/771