

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
Jon Krohn
The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast. As the quantity of data on our planet doubles every couple of years and with this trend set to continue for decades to come, there's an unprecedented opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in your lifetime. In conversation with the biggest names in the data science industry, Jon cuts through hype to fuel that professional impact.Whether you're curious about getting started in a data career or you're a deep technical expert, whether you'd like to understand what A.I. is or you'd like to integrate more data-driven processes into your business, we have inspiring guests and lighthearted conversation for you to enjoy.We cover tools, techniques, and implementation tricks across data collection, databases, analytics, predictive modeling, visualization, software engineering, real-world applications, commercialization, and entrepreneurship − everything you need to crush it with data science.
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Apr 1, 2025 • 1h 10min
875: How Semiconductors Are Made (And Fuel the AI Boom), with Kai Beckmann
Why are semiconductors so essential in this digital age, and how are they made? Jon Krohn speaks to electronics CEO Kai Beckmann about Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s intricate manufacturing process, how we can use AI to develop materials that power next-gen AI technologies, and how a chip with the processing power of the human brain might one day be able to run on the power of a low-watt light bulb.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/875This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:
(06:26) How Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany supports groundbreaking developments in AI
(13:42) Material science’s biggest challenges for AI
(29:55) What heterogeneous integration is
(34:37) How optical tech influences the electronics industry
(49:04) Navigating upturns and downturns in the semiconductor industry
(53:08) How AI regulations benefit humanity

Mar 28, 2025 • 14min
874: How AI is Transforming Baseball (with Lessons For All of Us)
In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn talks baseball. For decades, coaches have relied on player performance stats to make in-game decisions and refine their season strategies. Now, AI led by Statcast is taking baseball strategy even further, massively broadening analytics data to include pitch, swing and catch trajectories, spin rates, biomechanical information, player matchups, and how to enhance player performances. Listen to the episode to find out what other industries can learn from the “data-friendly” sport of baseball.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/874Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Mar 25, 2025 • 1h 13min
873: Become Your Best Self Through AI Augmentation — feat. Natalie Monbiot
Natalie Monbiot is an independent advisor and collaborator for projects that concern the “virtual human”, and she is “going all in on the virtual human economy”. Jon Krohn speaks to Natalie about these new ventures, how to mitigate the divide between AI users and nonusers, and how anyone can collaborate with AI without compromising their own creativity.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/873This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:
(07:21) Natalie’s influences for her work
(18:30) Will machines surpass human intelligence?
(29:08) Using LLMs as collaborators and partners
(40:15) How platforms demand user engagement and time
(56:54) Natalie Monbiot at Wizly

Mar 21, 2025 • 12min
872: Microsoft’s “Majorana 1” Chip Brings Quantum ML Closer
In this five-minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into Microsoft’s recent release of Majorana 1, a new quantum processing unit that uses topological qubits, a step away from the fragile qubits currently in use. Get Jon’s thoughts about this “transistor for the quantum age”, potential applications for quantum computing, and why this marks an exciting future for data science and machine learning practitioners.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/872Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Mar 18, 2025 • 1h 13min
871: NoSQL Is Ideal for AI Applications, with MongoDB’s Richmond Alake
Agentic AI, AI success strategies, and why flexibility will be so important to keep up with the AI market: Jon Krohn talks to Richmond Alake about the NoSQL database MongoDB, including why it’s a great addition to your toolkit for developing (agentic) AI applications, with a look under the hood at its native vector database. Richmond also talks about why he expects multi-agent AI architectures to go mainstream in 2025. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/871This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:
(04:10) How Richmond became a Staff Developer Advocate
(07:40) How NoSQL database differs from a relational database
(16:50) The advantages of working with the cloud-based MongoDB Atlas
(32:26) Richmond’s predictions for agentic AI
(40:38) How to create an effective AI strategy

Mar 14, 2025 • 17min
870: OpenAI’s “Deep Research”: Get Days of Human Work Done in Minutes
In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into what he considers the world’s most powerful research tool to date, OpenAI’s Deep Research. Find out how OpenAI trained Deep Research to compile literature reviews of limitless topics, what similar tools are on the market, and where Jon sees the tool as having real-world value including how he uses it daily.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/870Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Mar 11, 2025 • 1h 20min
869: AI Should Make Humans Wiser (But It Isn’t), with Varun Godbole
Jon Krohn talks to Varun Godbole about AI prompt engineering, generative wisdom, and AI generalists in this episode all about the interrelationships between humans and AI.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/869This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference.Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:
(10:44) Using deep learning to predict breast cancer
(15:55) All about Varun’s Tuning Playbook
(29:56) On the explosion of interest and news about AI and data science
(46:35) About Varun’s Wise AI

Mar 7, 2025 • 27min
868: In Case You Missed It in February 2025
How to start a successful tech company, and how you can get started with DBT, TabPFN and BAML: Jon Krohn rounds up his favorite moments from February in this episode of “In Case You Missed It”.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/868Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Mar 4, 2025 • 1h 33min
867: LLMs and Agents Are Overhyped, with Dr. Andriy Burkov
The realities of Agentic AI, AGI, and chatbots that don’t hallucinate: Andriy Burkov talks to Jon Krohn about AI in 2025. Best known for his concise machine learning modelling books, author and AI influencer Andriy Burkov also talks about his latest publication in the series, The Hundred-Page Language Learning Models Book. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/867This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:
(07:38) Andriy’s “triology” of books on machine learning
(29:32) On the limitations of AI agents
(41:12) On the prospect of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
(54:24) On developing a chatbot that doesn’t hallucinate
(01:10:07) On open-weight and open-source LLMs

Feb 28, 2025 • 8min
866: Bringing Back Extinct Animals like the Woolly Mammoth and Dodo Bird
Jon Krohn addresses a question for the ages: How close are we, really, to Jurassic Park? Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences is developing technology that aims to return previously extinct animals like the dodo and woolly mammoth to earth and, crucially, pull many others like the white rhino back from the brink of extinction. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/866Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.