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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 3 hours 46 minutes
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Let's Talk About Natural Language Processing
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Data Science Hiring Processes
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Drug Discovery with Machine Learning
In today's episode, Kyle chats with Alexander Zhebrak, CTO of Insilico Medicine, Inc. Insilico self describes as artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker development, and aging research. The conversation in this episode explores the ways...
Sign Language Recognition
At the NeurIPS 2018 conference, premiered a training game which helps players learn . This episode brings the first of many interviews conducted at NeurIPS 2018. In this episode, Kyle interviews Chief Data Scientist about...
Data Ethics
This week, Kyle interviews Scott Nestler on the topic of Data Ethics. Today, no ubiquitous, formal ethical protocol exists for data science, although some have been proposed. One example is the . Guidelines like this are rather informal...
Escaping the Rabbit Hole
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[MINI] Theorem Provers
Fake news attempts to lead readers/listeners/viewers to conclusions that are not descriptions of reality. They do this most often by presenting false premises, but sometimes by presenting flawed logic. An argument is only sound and valid if the...
Automated Fact Checking
Fake news can be responded to with fact-checking. However, it's easier to create fake news than the fact check it. is the UK's independent fact-checking organization. In this episode, Kyle interviews , head of automated fact-checking at...