Francesco Gadaleta
Data Science at Home
Cutting through AI bullsh*t
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Francesco Gadaleta
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Jun 23, 2026
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Episodes
AI is the Concorde of our time (Ep. 309) 23.06.2026 18:10
AI is technically extraordinary and economically precarious. OpenAI spent $1.35 for every dollar it earned in 2025. Global data center investment now surpasses global oil supply spending. We have built something genuinely remarkable and we do not yet know if it can sustain its own weight. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect wit...
The propaganda algorithm (Ep. 308) 30.05.2026 15:30
Modern propaganda isn’t random noise. It’s a repeatable, engineered algorithm that starts with ideology, weaponizes identity, and manufactures conflict. Once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee it. What happens with AI? Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsle...
AI tips & tricks (Ep. 307) 19.05.2026 54:46
Some of the most asked questions on the channel. Here answered. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.l...
AI and videogames: Conversational NPCs (Ep. 306) 07.05.2026 52:15
Can NPCs in videogames leverage new LLM-based tech? What are the benefits? What are the costs? Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceA...
AI and videogames (Ep. 305) 05.05.2026 49:35
What is the state of AI and videogames? Who is considering it? What are the big fails so far? This and much more is covered in this 1st episode of AI and videogames. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Av...
Europe, wake up! You Can't Be a Superpower on Someone Else's Servers (Ep. 304) 21.04.2026 28:11
Rebuilding a defense industrial base takes 20 years and costs trillions. Tech sovereignty takes 3 years and political will. Europe is doing the hard thing and refusing the easy one. Here's why — and who's profiting from that refusal. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com...
Social media is an ant mill (Internet is a disaster) (Ep. 303) 07.04.2026 35:01
Internet followed nature. Until it didn't. And became the disaster we know. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Inst...
About Apple's Privacy (Ep. 302) 02.04.2026 45:40
Paragon's spyware hacked fully updated iPhones without a single click. Apple just spent $2B on tech that reads your silent speech. And your iCloud? Governments can request it with paperwork. This is what the privacy brand actually buys you. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceat...
Productivity is the new data breach (Ep. 301) 31.03.2026 32:46
Your employees aren't being hacked. They're doing it themselves, one ChatGPT prompt at a time. What is it? And how to fix the biggest corporate espionage of all times. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and mo...
Programmable Money: The Cage They'll Call Convenience (Ep. 300) 06.03.2026 24:37
Money has always been yours to spend freely. That's about to change. This episode breaks down programmable money, the technology that turns your wallet into a permission system. ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘...
There Is No AI. There's a Stateless Function on 10,000 GPUs Pretending to Know You (Ep. 299) 03.03.2026 39:29
Right now, millions of people are simultaneously chatting with a system that remembers nothing, knows nothing, and resets after every message. The engineering keeping that illusion alive is actually the impressive part. ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, an...
Your Favorite AI Startup is Probably Bullshit (Ep. 298) [RB] 30.01.2026 12:20
The brutal truth about why Silicon Valley is blowing billions on glorified autocomplete while pretending it's the next iPhone. We're diving deep into the AI investment circus where VCs who can't code are funding companies that barely understand their own technology. From blockchain déjà vu to the "ChatGPT wrapper" economy—this episode will make you question every AI valuation you've ever seen. Fai...
Why AI Researchers Are Suddenly Obsessed With Whirlpools (Ep. 297) [RB] 28.01.2026 33:15
VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously. By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture might solve deep learning's toughest problems—from vanishing gradients to long-range dependencies. Today we explain how vortex shedding, the Strouhal number, and turbulent flows might change everything in AI. Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Statistica...
AGI: The Dream We Should Never Reach (Ep. 296) 10.01.2026 45:41
Also on YouTube Two AI experts who actually love the technology explain why chasing AGI might be the worst thing for AI's future—and why the current hype cycle could kill the field we're trying to save. Want to dive deeper? Head to datascienceathome.com for detailed show notes, code examples, and exclusive deep-dives into the papers we discuss. Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly breakdowns...
When Data Stops Being Code and Starts Being Conversation (Ep. 297) 22.12.2025 33:37
Mark Brocato built Mockaroo—the tool that taught millions of developers how to fake data. Now, as Head of Engineering at Tonic.ai, he's building the AI agent that's making his own creation obsolete. In this episode, we explore why static test data can't survive the AI era, what it means to "negotiate" datasets with an agent instead of scripting them, and whether we're heading toward a future where...
Your AI Strategy is Burning Money: Here's How to Fix It (Ep.295) 25.11.2025 31:58
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a decision-making problem. Matt Lea, founder of Schematical and CloudWarGames, has spent nearly 20 years helping tech leaders ship smarter. In this conversation, he breaks down when AI actually makes sense, where AWS costs spiral out of control, and why your "cool demo" keeps dying before launch. If you're tired of AI hype and ready for straight a...
From Tokens to Vectors: The Efficiency Hack That Could Save AI (Ep. 294) 11.11.2025 46:54
LLMs generate text painfully slow, one low-info token at a time. Researchers just figured out how to compress 4 tokens into smart vectors & cut costs by 44%—with full code & proofs! Meanwhile OpenAI drops product ads, not papers. We explore CALM & why open science matters. 🔥📊 Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Statistical Horizons At Statistical Horizons, you can stay ah...
Why AI Researchers Are Suddenly Obsessed With Whirlpools (Ep. 293) 30.10.2025 33:15
VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously. By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture might solve deep learning's toughest problems—from vanishing gradients to long-range dependencies. Today we explain how vortex shedding, the Strouhal number, and turbulent flows might change everything in AI. Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Statistica...
The Scientists Growing Living Computers in Swiss Labs (Ep. 292) 16.10.2025 37:45
Fred Jordan, Co-CEO of FinalSpark, takes us inside the radical world of biological computing, where real neurons extracted from human tissue are being trained to solve problems that would require 10 megawatts in silicon. We explore the life support systems keeping these "wetware" processors alive, the ethical quandaries of computation performed by living cells, and why the messiness of biology mig...
When AI Hears Thunder But Misses the Fear (Ep. 291) 08.10.2025 46:37
Sanjoy Chowdhury reveals AI's hidden weakness: while systems can see objects and hear sounds perfectly, they can't reason across senses like humans do. His research at University of Maryland College Park, including the Meerkat model and AVTrustBench, exposes why AI recognizes worried faces and thunder separately but fails to connect them—and what this means for self-driving cars and medical AI. ...
Why VCs Are Funding $100M Remote Control Toys (Ep. 290) 16.09.2025 39:56
This episode exposes the uncomfortable truth: most defense tech startups are just software engineers cosplaying as military innovators, creating fragmented solutions that Pentagon doesn't need. Not now, at least. References War On The Rocks: https://warontherocks.com/2025/08/ukraine-isnt-the-model-for-winning-the-innovation-war/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasrsinger/ Spotify: https:...
How Hacker Culture Died (Ep. 289) 29.08.2025 44:57
A nostalgic dive into the rise and fall of true hacker culture - from MIT's curious tinkerers to today's hustle-obsessed "founders." Plus, why IRC was peak internet and what we lost when convenience killed community. For anyone who misses when coding was about elegance, not exits. RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses. Interesting link https://www.twitch.tv/tsoding/about Spo...
Robots Suck (But It’s Not Their Fault) (Ep. 288) 05.08.2025 16:16
We were promised robot butlers and got Roombas that cry under the couch. In this brutally honest (and slightly hilarious) episode, Francesco dives into why the robot revolution fizzled, why your dishwasher still needs you, and how robotics became more YouTube circus than household helper. Spoiler: It's not the tech – it's us. Sponsors DSH is proudly sponsored by Amethix Technologies. At the inte...
Your Favorite AI Startup is Probably Bullshit (Ep. 287) 26.07.2025 12:20
The brutal truth about why Silicon Valley is blowing billions on glorified autocomplete while pretending it's the next iPhone. We're diving deep into the AI investment circus where VCs who can't code are funding companies that barely understand their own technology. From blockchain déjà vu to the "ChatGPT wrapper" economy—this episode will make you question every AI valuation you've ever seen. Fai...
Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything (Ep. 286) [RB] 07.07.2025 18:44
From the viral article "Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything" on my newsletter at https://defragzone.substack.com/p/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing here are my thoughts about AI replacing programmers... 🎙️ Sponsors AGNTCY — The open source collective building the Internet of Agents 🌐 https://www.agntcy.org ✨ Connect with us! 📩 Newsletter: h...
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