Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

In this episode, Jon shares where you can find his extensive deep learning video content and courses. Tune in to learn more about his deep learning curriculum and where you can learn for free.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/554

In this episode, Dr. Josh Starmer, the creative, musical genius behind the wildly popular YouTube channel StatQuest joins the podcast to discuss statistics, learning and communication secrets, and how he grew his YouTube channel to over 650,000 subscribers.In this episode you will learn: The inspiration behind Josh’s YouTube channel [18:39] Josh's simple approach to learning something new [34:25] Josh's secret tool for creating YouTube videos with over a million views [51:01] The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning [53:34] How and when Josh uses R vs. Python [1:07:53] How to cluster any types of data using the R randomForest package [1:11:24] Why Josh left his academic career [1:14:24] The two stats concepts Josh thinks everyone should know [1:38:50] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/553

In this episode of Five-Minute Friday, Jon recaps the most popular SuperDataScience podcast episodes from 2021. See what you might have missed and catch up today!Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/552

In this episode, gifted author and software engineer Wah Loon Keng joins the podcast to dive deep into reinforcement learning. From its history to limitations, modern industrial applications, and future developments– there's no better expert to learn from if you want to know more about this complex topic.In this episode you will learn: What is reinforcement learning? [4:50] Deep reinforcement learning vs reinforcement learning [13:17] A timeline of reinforcement learning breakthroughs [16:17] The limitations of deep RL today [39:53] Deep RL applications [53:10] Keng's open-source SLM-Lab framework [57:51] Keng’s responsibilities as an AI engineer [1:02:17] What is the future of RL? [1:08:05] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/551

Jon is back with another Five-Minute Friday habit-tracking episode! Listen in as he explains how writing morning pages has helped his data science work flourish with creativity. Inspired by Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, he details his morning pages routine and how it kickstarted a new chapter in his career.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/550

In this episode, Glean software engineer and Stanford graduate Lauren Zhu joins us to discuss her role at a fast-growing startup, working on natural language processing projects, and how she remains inspired by pursuing her side passions.In this episode you will learn: Lauren's experience as a course assistant [5:53] Stanford's Hacking the Coronavirus Course [11:53] How do you empower minority groups in AI [19:45] Lauren on zero-shot multilingual neural machine translation [23:25] Lauren's work at Glean [27:58] The Contrary Talent Network [34:30] The tools Lauren uses at Glean [43:39] The most important skills to possess as a data scientist [47:29] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/549

Our Five-Minute Friday series on habit tracking returns with a look at one of Jon's daily mindfulness habits–meditation. Learn how to keep this habit going for the long run and discover which tools help Jon stay on track.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/548

In this episode, Dr. Jonathan Flint, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles, joins us to discuss how he uses data science and machine learning to explore the link between genetics and depression.In this episode you will learn: Johnathan's background [2:53] How we know that genetics plays a role in complex human behaviors including psychiatric disorders like anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia [8:00] The role that data science and ML play in modern genetics research [15:08] About Jonathan book "How Genes Influence Behavior" [19:45] The day-to-day life of a world-class medical sciences researcher [32:24] The open-source software libraries that Jonathan uses for data modeling [40:33] A single question you can ask to prevent a severely depressed person from committing suicide [52:00] LinkedIn Q&A [54:41] The future of psychiatric treatments [1:05:35] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/547

Our Five-Minute Friday habit-tracking series continues! Learn more about alternate-nostril breathing–the mindfulness technique that is scientifically proven to lower blood pressure and regulate the stress response.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/546

Data scientist and entrepreneur Matthew Russell joins Jon Krohn to discuss the intersection of machine learning and fitness and dive deep into the strategies he and his team at Strongest AI use to scale data-intensive real-time applications.In this episode you will learn: About Strongest's event platform and iOS app [6:06] How Strongest scaled to serve million [8:14] Strongest's unique approach to building a fitness app [17:50] How to rapidly test ML models for deployment [29:01] The three critical traits Matthew looks for in anyone he hires [33:11] Mining the Social Web [41:14] The values instilled in Matthew by pursuing a military education [53:30] The key skills Matthew wishes he’d learned earlier in his career [1:03:51] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/545