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Not So Standard Deviations

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Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 15min

179 - AI Grand Strategy

Python in Excel, speed cubing data, AI weapons grand strategy, data availability in sports, cheating in video games, preserving humanity in the age of AI, regulating the supply chain of AI tools, controlling foreign attacks on infrastructure
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Aug 22, 2023 • 1h 6min

178 - Hilary is Cranky About Everything

Hosts discuss concerns about data corruption and bias in machine learning models, regulation of language models and its comparison to cars, racial bias and consequences of facial recognition technology, promoting rules and standards to influence behavior, technology as a weapon and its long-term consequences, safety benefits of self-driving cars for parenting, challenges of parenting and upcoming school year, iterating through multiple steps of analysis and decision-making, and the significance of framed degrees in home offices.
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Aug 12, 2023 • 1h 8min

177 - We’re Back!

Hilary and Roger return to see if anything has changed in the world since they took their break. Topics include the changing world of social media and the “data as oil” metaphor.   Show Notes: Catching up with the weird world of LLMs Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell  
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May 3, 2023 • 1h 3min

176 - Is R the Worst?

Hilary and Roger make a special announcement and discuss large language models, prompt engineering, and the frustration of teaching R these days.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell  
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Apr 17, 2023 • 59min

175 - Apocalypse Later

Hilary and Roger discuss Posit ads and continue the discussion of ChatGPT and AI (including AI movies!)   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell  
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Apr 4, 2023 • 1h 21min

174 - The Future Was Here

Hilary and Roger debate the impacts and time horizon of ChatGPT and its competitors.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell  
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Mar 14, 2023 • 1h 11min

173 - Narrative Diagrams

Hilary and Roger reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, discuss what the goal of data version control is, and critique Roger’s idea for a way to learn from other people’s data analyses.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell
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Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 4min

172 - Efficient Counterfactuals

Hilary and Roger winge about Twitter, correct the record about dbt, and consider more counterfactuals.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell  
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Feb 3, 2023 • 1h 9min

171 - Orchestrating the Reverse ETL

Hilary recovers from COVID while Roger throws various difficult discussion topics at her. They talk about Charlie Javice, Data Day Texas, Posit / Palantir, and classified documents.   Show Notes: JP Morgan Chase lawsuit against Frank Palantir news release Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell
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Jan 13, 2023 • 55min

170 - An Abbreviated Episode

Hilary spills a smoothie and coffee and Roger starts teaching again.   Show Notes: Support us on Patreon Roger on Twitter Hilary on Twitter List of NSSD Fellows Get the Not So Standard Deviations book Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Find past episodes Contact us at nssdeviations @ gmail.com Podcast art by Jessica Crowell

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