Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

Monitoring malicious, user-generated content; contextual AI; adapting to novel evasion attempts: Matar Haller speaks to Jon Krohn about the challenges of identifying, analyzing and flagging malicious information online. In this episode, Matar explains how contextual AI and a “database of evil” can help resolve the multiple challenges of blocking dangerous content across a range of media, even thos...

In this week's episode, Mico Yuk, host of 'Analytics on Fire', joins Jon Krohn to share her effective business intelligence and analytics framework, BIDS, for persuading key decision makers. She crowns one "power" tool as the analytics king and discusses emerging tools that could challenge its dominance. Tune in for unapologetic insights on future and current BI trends and happenings from the worl...

Unlock the power of XGBoost by learning how to fine-tune its hyperparameters and discover its optimal modeling situations. This and more, when best-selling author and leading Python consultant Matt Harrison teams up with Jon Krohn for yet another jam-packed technical episode! Are you ready to upgrade your data science toolkit in just one hour? Tune-in now! This episode is brought to you by Pathway...

Industrial machinery’s dependence on data science, tech stacks to build IoT platforms, and transitioning from data science to product: This week’s Friday episode with Allegra Alessi explores the minutiae of product ownership for the Internet of Things at packaging company Bobst. Join host Jon Krohn and his guest as they unpack how the IoT is leading factory production. Additional materials: www.su...

Generative AI, MLOps, and making smart investments in AI: This week’s episode is critical listening for AI investors and generative AI creators. AI investor George Mathew talks with host Jon Krohn about the emerging generative AI stack, the critical elements of MLOps to ensure a scalable model, and the tools developers can use for a saleable product. This episode is brought to you by Posit, the op...

StableLM, the new family of open-source language models from the brilliant minds behind Stable Diffusion is out! Small, but mighty, these models have been trained on an unprecedented amount of data for single GPU LLMs. This week, Jon breaks down the mechanics of this model–see you there! Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/678 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode?...

How does one use marketing analytics to drive business success? Avinash Kaushik, Chief Strategy Officer at Croud and former Sr. Director of Global Strategic Analytics at Google joins Jon Krohn live for an exciting episode that covers the transformative power of AI, his 'four clusters of intent' framework and the value of hands-on data tools. This episode is brought to you by Pathway, the reactive...

Chinchilla AI, and fine-tuning proprietary tasks with large language models: On this week’s Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn outlines the principles of the Chinchilla Scaling Laws, the incredible power of models such as Cerebras-GPT based on these laws, and the impact of scaling on the number of viable applications and commercial use cases. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/676Inter...

Wrangling data in Pandas, when to use Pandas, Matplotlib or Seaborn, and why you should learn to create Python packages: Jon Krohn speaks with guest Stefanie Molin, author of Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas. This episode is brought to you by Posit, the open-source data science company, and by AWS Inferentia. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast...

Models like Alpaca, Vicuña, GPT4All-J and Dolly 2.0 have relatively small model architectures, but they're prohibitively expensive to train even on a small amount of your own data. The standard model-training protocol can also lead to catastrophic forgetting. In this week's episode, Jon explores a solution to these problems, introducing listeners to Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and the l...

Vincent Gosselin, CEO and co-founder of Taipy, an open-source Python library, joins Jon Krohn to discuss how to accelerate productivity in Python and build scalable, reusable, and maintainable data pipelines. Gosselin shares his breadth of wisdom honed over his decades-long AI career. This episode is brought to you by Pathway, the reactive data processing framework, and by Posit, the open-source d...

Get started with language models: Learn about the commercial-use options available for your business in this week’s Five-Minute Friday, where host Jon Krohn discusses four models that have many of the capabilities of ChatGPT and can run at a fraction of the cost. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/672Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcas...

Get to grips with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform on this week’s episode. Host Jon Krohn speaks with Kirill Eremenko and Hadelin de Ponteves about CloudWolf, a cloud computing educational platform that prepares students for certification in AWS (Amazon Web Services). Find out why an accreditation in cloud computing could be the safest investment for your data science career. This episode is brou...

How does Meta AI's natural language model, LLaMa compare to the rest? Based on the Chinchilla scaling laws, LLaMa is designed to be smaller but more performant. But how exactly does it achieve this feat? It's all done by training a small model for a longer period of time. Discover how LLaMa compares to its competition, including GPT-3, in this week's episode. Additional materials: www.superdatasci...

In this episode, Jon Krohn welcomes Adrian Kosowski, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Pathway, who shares insights on streaming data processing and reactive data processing, and how they're shaping the future of machine learning. Tune in now for an unforgettable episode. This episode is brought to you by Posit, the open-source data science company, and by AWS Inferentia. Interested in spons...

AI risks, RLHF, and inner alignment: GPT stands to give the business world a major boost. But with everyone racing either to develop products that incorporate GPT or use it to carry out critical tasks, what dangers could lie ahead in working with a tool that applies essentially unknowable means (inner alignments) to reach its goals? This week’s guest Jérémie Harris speaks with Jon Krohn about the...

GPT-4, augmenting human tasks with AI, and using GPT-4 commercially: Vin Vashishta speaks to host Jon Krohn about how to leverage GPT-4 and outperform your competitors in both speed and value. Learn how GPT-4 has outmatched its predecessors – and many skilled workers – in this latest iteration of large language models. This episode is brought to you by Pathway, the reactive data processing framewo...

GPT-4 has landed! But how well does it compare to GPT-3.5? Tune in to hear Jon stack its performance against its predecessor–the results might just blow your mind. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/666Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Angel investor and data science consultant Josh Wills sits down with Jon Krohn to discuss his former roles (Google, Slack, and Cloudera) and the essential skills for engineering scalable machine learning projects. This episode is brought to you by Pathway, the reactive data processing framework, and by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience P...

Can ChatGPT make us better and faster in our work, and is it the future or just another fad? In this episode, Jon Krohn delves into a new study from MIT about the tool’s potential productivity for white-collar tasks. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/664Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

NLP, transformer architectures, and machines beating humans at their own game: Jon Krohn talks to Alexander H. Miller about his work in building a machine that can outsmart humans in the game of Diplomacy by engineering powers of persuasion and collusion to its own advantage. This episode is brought to you by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick (linkedin.com/learning/instructors/keit...

Our list of the top 10 SuperDataScience podcast episodes for 2022 is here. From Pandas to causality, AI breakthroughs and data storytelling, these were your most popular episodes of the year gone by. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/662 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Chip Huyen, co-founder of Claypot AI and author of O'Reilly's best-selling "Designing Machine Learning Systems" is here to share her expertise on designing production-ready machine learning applications, the importance of iteration in real-world deployment, and the critical role of real-time machine learning in various applications. Technical listeners like data scientists and machine learning eng...

ChatGPT is well-known for its potential to disrupt the writing industry, but in what other, perhaps less explored, ways can we use the tool? In this episode, Jon Krohn outlines five critical ways that ChatGPT can augment a data scientist’s work. From generating code to acting as a translation tool for programming languages, listen in to hear why ChatGPT could become a vital part of every data scie...

NLP practitioners: this episode is for you. From the awareness of linguistic elements and annotation to getting the necessary people in the room, Vincent Warmerdam presents to Jon Krohn a recipe for a successful project and the open-source NLP tools to get there. This episode is brought to you by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick (linkedin.com/learning/instructors/keith-mccormick)....