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Adversarial Learning

Joel Grus

@akm and @joelgrus talk about data, science, data science, Dave Shing, and whatever else we feel like

Episodes

20 of 25 episodes

Adversarial Restarting

It's been a couple of years, so Joel and Andrew catch up on what's new in life and in data science.

00:57:17Mar 20, 2023

Adversarial Distancing, Episode 4: Joel's Fizz Buzz Book

It turns out Joel wrote another book: Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz (Quarantine does strange things to a person.) In this episode Andrew and Joel...

00:53:41Aug 6, 2020

Adversarial Distancing, Episode 3: Two Conversations with Jowanza

About a month ago we recorded a podcast with Jowanza Joseph about engineering and COVID-19 and other mundane topics. While I (Joel) was proc...

01:31:45Jun 15, 2020

Adversarial Distancing - Episode 2

Joel and Andrew break quarantine (metaphorically) to discuss treehouses, remote work, distance schooling, outschool.com, Joel's attempt to t...

00:51:53May 16, 2020

Adversarial Distancing - Episode 1

in which Joel and Andrew briefly break quarantine to talk about Covid-19, social distancing, and the data science grift

00:40:00Mar 22, 2020

Episode 21: The Cold Start Problem for Becoming a DJ

Our guest this week is Pardis Noorzad ( @djpardis ), former data science manager at Twitter and now Head of Data Science at Carbon Health ....

00:59:13Nov 8, 2019

Episode 20: Churn! Churn! Churn!

Our guest this episode is Carl Gold (@carl24k), Chief Data Scientist at Zuora and author of the forthcoming book Fighting Churn with Data. U...

01:09:51Oct 30, 2019

Episode 19: Writing the Same Book Twice

On this episode, Andrew is joined by Joel Grus (@joelgrus), the author of Data Science from Scratch, whose second edition just came out. The...

00:49:33May 24, 2019

Episode 18: Never Insult a Pigeon Driving a Bus

Our guest this episode is data scientist Peadar Coyle . Topics include Brexit whether Europe is a Python continent or an R continent GDPR ho...

01:08:28Mar 12, 2019

Episode 17: Josh Wills

Adversarial Learning is back from its extended hiatus! Our guest is famous data scientist Josh Wills. We discuss why Josh is a famous data s...

01:13:08Feb 4, 2019

Episode 16: My Code of Ethics Will Forbid YAML

Adversarial Learning is back! In this long-delayed episode (thanks, technical difficulties) we are joined by data scientist Schaun Wheeler t...

00:49:17May 25, 2018

Episode 15: Could You Rephrase That As An Ethical Question?

Our guest this week is data scientist for good Lisa Green . Topics of discussion include What is ethics Joel's previous life as a financial...

01:04:11Oct 12, 2017

Episode 14: Totally Derivative

Our guest this week is flashcard kingpin and former Partially Derivative co-host Chris Albon. Topics of discussion include how good it feels...

01:07:10Sep 25, 2017

Episode 12: Data Science Myths

Data scientist Vicki Boykis joins Joel and Andrew to variously debunk and rebunk common Data Science Myths. Is data the new oil? Do data sci...

00:54:16Aug 7, 2017

Episode 11: Data Conferences

Andrew and Joel come out of hiatus to discuss data conferences: when to attend them, how to get your talk accepted, how to network, optimal...

00:52:46Jul 26, 2017

Episode 10: Stories of Degradation and Humiliation

Friend of the podcast Tim Hopper joins us as we share stories of Very Bad Interviews we've been on. (As you probably expect, Joel has the mo...

00:59:35May 22, 2017

Episode 9: Owning a Planet

Our guests this week are Curtis Yarvin and Galen Wolfe-Pauly, which means that our topic is Urbit ("a virtual city of general-purpose person...

01:06:01Mar 20, 2017

Episode 8: On Flink

Our guest this week is Trevor Grant ( @rawkintrevo ), an Open Source Technology Developer Evangelist (or similar) at IBM. We discuss how to...

00:59:50Mar 3, 2017

Episode 7: Telling a Bot to Go Shove It

Our guest this week is Juliet Hougland ( @j_houg ), data scientist and engineer at Cloudera. We discuss that bad Wired article about physics...

01:12:22Feb 24, 2017

Episode 6: Good Data Science Is Always Political

Is good data science always political? Our regularly scheduled guest had to cancel at the last minute, so Joel and Andrew decided to talk ab...

00:51:37Feb 10, 2017