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Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

Can someone explain to me why they call out being a "nerd"?

...we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adam (nerd, Harvard computer science professor)...

Seems a bit misplaced.

Also, Yoshua gave a great, albeit slightly controversial for the crowd, talk at AGI 14 in Quebec this summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by dddddddata » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 8:14 PM UTC

If you're into data science podcasts... this one has been going for a couple months and getting some attention. http://www.partiallyderivative.com/

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by bayesregressor » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 9:28 PM UTC

denzil_correa wrote: post #7

I submitted this around 9 hours ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8830057

Sorry I didn't see that one. Thanks for posting!

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by bayesregressor » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 9:31 PM UTC

denzil_correa wrote: post #5

cryo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/ this url works with feedly

Could you see the iTunes podcast link? I couldn't fine one.

The iTunes link is still pending Apple's approval... Hopefully it'll be up soon!

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:08 PM UTC

ginolomelino wrote: post #8

Sounds interesting. Couldn't find an RSS feed on your site. Where can I subscribe?

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Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by 3327 » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 10:17 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #11

Can someone explain to me why they call out being a "nerd"? ...we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adam (nerd, Harvard computer science professor)... Seems a bit misplaced. Also, Yoshua gave a great, albeit slightly controversial for the crowd, talk at AGI 14 in Quebec this summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24

Because non-nerds now call themselves nerds as "nerd" is associated with having domain expertise in a giving subject i.e CS. In their views what we "do" is nerdy so we are by definition nerds too.

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by jeffreyrogers » Sat, Jan 03, 2015, 11:32 PM UTC

azaras wrote: post #3

They recommend the book "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" by Kevin P. Murphy.

I've only read a few chapters from this, but I've heard it recommended highly by others as well.

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by Houshalter » Sun, Jan 04, 2015, 12:50 AM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #11

Can someone explain to me why they call out being a "nerd"? ...we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adam (nerd, Harvard computer science professor)... Seems a bit misplaced. Also, Yoshua gave a great, albeit slightly controversial for the crowd, talk at AGI 14 in Quebec this summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24

Good talk, but how was that controversial?

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Sun, Jan 04, 2015, 3:41 AM UTC

Houshalter wrote: post #18

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #11

Can someone explain to me why they call out being a "nerd"? ...we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adam (nerd, Harvard computer science professor)... Seems a bit misplaced. Also, Yoshua gave a great, albeit slightly controversial for the crowd, talk at AGI 14 in Quebec this summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24

Good talk, but how was that controversial?

Not conventionally so, I think some of the AGI people think his un-supervised/supervised training thoughts do not lend themselves towards AGI/Strong AI.

Re: Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Post by AjithAntony » Sun, Jan 04, 2015, 7:49 AM UTC

azaras wrote: post #6

AjithAntony wrote: post #2

Is there an rss feed to subscribe to or is it only for iTunes?

The rss feed is http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog?format=RSS

Cool. Works perfectly with Pocketcasts. Art and notes too.