Talking Machines

Talking Machines


Latest Episodes

What Does Red Sound Like
August 29, 2019

In episode seventeen of season five we talk about Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell, take a listener question about our Turing brackets (and Invent the Very Good Sort Awards) and listen to a chat with Tewodros Abebe

Not What But Why
August 15, 2019

In this episode of Talking Machines we take a listen to Professor Engelhardt's TedX Boston talk, Not What But Why: Machine Learning for Understanding Genomics

Idea Pandemics and Workshop Walkthrough
August 01, 2019

in episode 15 of season five of Talking Machines we' chat about the recently announced workshops at NeurIPS 2019, find ourselves in the middle of an I Love Lucy Episode about technical term usage and talk with Randy Goebel of the Alberta Machine Intellige

PosterSession.ai and Deep Quaggles
July 18, 2019

In episode 14 of season five we talk about On the marginal likelihood and cross-validation, Katherine is STILL excited about PosterSession.ai, we invent Deep Quaggles and listen to a conversation with professor Elaine Nsoesie of BU

The View from Addis Ababa
July 04, 2019

In episode thirteen of season five we bring you a the rest of our conversation with Michael Melese from Addis Ababa University and Charles Saidu of Baze University Abuja

DSA Addis Ababa and ICML Los Angeles
June 20, 2019

In episode twelve of season five we bring you a rundown of Data Science Africa's latest workshop answer a listener question about what got us excited at ICML and hear the first part of our conversation with Michael Melese from Addis Ababa University and C

Data Trusts and Citation Trends
June 06, 2019

In episode eleven of season five, we dig in to just what a data trust actually is, take a look at citation trends and other places (PMLR) you can dig up data to understand the field and talk with Raia Hadsell of DeepMind.

Reproducibly and Revisiting History
May 23, 2019

In episode ten of season five we talk about reproducibility, take a listener question on re understanding the history of the field given where we are now and how other fields are reviewing their own history and listen to a conversation with Graham Taylor

Insights from AISTATS
May 09, 2019

In episode nine of season five we talk about some interesting work from AISTATS, dive into unbiased implicit variational inference, and chat with Jon McAuliffe CIO of Voleon

The Deep End of Deep Learning
April 25, 2019

In this episode as we prep for ICLR we take a break from our usual format to bring you a talk from Hugo LaRochelle at TedX Boston on Deep Learning.