A true classic topic in ML: Facial recognition is very high-dimensional, meaning that each picture can have millions of pixels, each of which can be a single feature. It's computationally expensive to deal with all these features, and invites overfitting problems. PCA (principal components analysis) is a classic dimensionality reduction tool that compresses ... Show More
Jul 2020
So long, and thanks for all the fish
All good things must come to an end, including this podcast. This is the last episode we plan to release, and it doesn’t cover data science—it’s mostly reminiscing, thanking our wonderful audience (that’s you!), and marveling at how this thing that started out as a side project g ... Show More
35m 44s
Jul 2020
A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data
A few weeks ago, we put out a call for data scientists interested in issues of race and racism, or people studying how those topics can be studied with data science methods, should get in touch to come talk to our audience about their work. This week we’re excited to bring on Tod ... Show More
23m 44s
May 2024
2882: From Chess Grandmaster to ML Innovator: Tal Shaked's Journey
<p>Are machines really capable of thinking like humans, or are we merely programming them to mimic our own patterns? Today on Tech Talks Daily, we delve into this intriguing question with Tal Shaked, an American chess grandmaster and Chief Machine Learning Officer at Moloco, a le ... Show More
29m 26s
Dec 2023
SE Radio 594: Sean Moriarity on Deep Learning with Elixir and Axon
<p><strong>Sean Moriarity</strong>, creator of the Axon deep learning framework, co-creator of the Nx library, and author of <em>Machine Learning in Elixir</em> and <em>Genetic Algorithms in Elixir,</em> published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf, speaks with SE Radio host <a href= "ht ... Show More
57m 43s
Feb 2023
Strachey lecture - Symmetry and Similarity
An introduction to algorithmic aspects of symmetry and similarity, ranging from the fundamental complexity theoretic "Graph Isomorphism Problem" to applications in optimisation and machine learning Symmetry is a fundamental concept in mathematics, science and engineering, and bey ... Show More
1 h
Jun 2022
Using AI to Supercharge Data-Driven Applications with Zilliz
Theo is in the interviewer’s chair for this episode as Frank Liu from Zilliz joins the show to talk about how AI and machine learning are making it possible for developers to understand and extract more value from unstructured data such as text, audio, images, video, and more. Tr ... Show More
20 m
Oct 2022
How Do You Recognize a Face?
Imagine not being able to recognize the people you see every single day; your coworkers, your friends, your loved ones. “Prosopagnosia,” or “face blindness,” as it’s commonly known, is a disorder that impacts about 1 in 50 people, and some may not even know about it. They may go ... Show More
24m 21s
<p><span style= "color: #224422; font-family: 'Lucida Bright', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> My guest this week is Anh Nguyen, a PhD student at the University of Wyoming working in the </span><a style= "font-family: 'Lucida Bright', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;" href ... Show More
