At Glasswing Ventures, Rudina Seseri wants to be able to answer the question: What has Glasswing Ventures done for the company beyond capital investment? She speaks to Jon Krohn about how her company uses data to assess venture capital investments, the secret sauce of successful AI startups, and why she feels generative AI is only the start of a much broader impact that AI will make in communities and businesses.

This episode is brought to you by the DataConnect Conference (https://www.dataconnectconf.com/dccwest/conference), and by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility (https://www.readytensor.ai/). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit https://passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Potential interest areas for Series A AI venture capitalists [12:22]
• How Glasswing’s AI Palette helps AI startups [23:06]
• How data driven the venture capital industry is [27:21]
• Advice for adopting services from AI providers [47:21]
• Model collapse: Causes and concerns [58:44]
• Glasswing’s checklist for AI startups [1:04:59]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/763

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763: The Best A.I. Startup Opportunities, with venture capitalist Rudina Seseri

Explore the origins of NumPy and SciPy with their creator, Dr. Travis Oliphant. Discover the journey from personal need to global impact, the challenges overcome, and the future of these essential Python libraries in scientific computing and data science.

This episode is brought to you by the DataConnect Conference (https://www.dataconnectconf.com/dccwest/conference), by Data Universe, the out-of-this-world data conference (https://datauniverse2024.com), and by CloudWolf (https://www.cloudwolf.com/sds), the Cloud Skills platform. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Travis's journey to creating NumPy and SciPy [08:05]
• How Anaconda got started [42:24]
• How Numba, a high-performance Python compiler, was brought to market [54:48]
• Python's influence on the thought processes of scientists and engineers [1:04:21]
• The commercial projects that support Travis’s vast open-source efforts and communities [1:10:22]
• How to get involved in Travis's commercial projects and communities [1:22:34]
• The future of scientific computing and Python libraries [1:29:50]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/765

765: NumPy, SciPy and the Economics of Open-Source, with Dr. Travis Oliphant

Kurt Vonnegut's "Player Piano" delivers striking parallels between its dystopian vision and today's AI challenges. This week, Jon Krohn explores the novel's depiction of a world where humans are marginalized by machines, reflecting on the impact of automation on society and the ethical considerations it raises. Tune in as we unpack the timeless relevance of Vonnegut's work to the AI era.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/766

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766: Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952): An Eerie Novel on the Current AI Revolution

Claude 3, LLMs and testing ML performance: Jon Krohn tests out Anthropic’s new model family, Claude 3, which includes the Haiku, Sonnet and Opus models (written in order of their performance power, from least to greatest).  Can it stand shoulder to shoulder with other models such as GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra? And how important is it for machine learning practitioners to try out these models with their own benchmarks? Jon walks listeners through a test of his own in this Five-Minute Friday.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/768

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768: Is Claude 3 Better than GPT-4?

Explore the science of confidence with Lucy Antrobus, as she unveils neuroscience-backed strategies to build and boost confidence through practice, positive energy, and the power of laughter. An essential listen for fostering unshakable self-assurance.

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/770

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770: The Neuroscientific Guide to Confidence

Kirill Eremenko joins Jon Krohn for another exclusive, in-depth teaser for a new course just released on the SuperDataScience platform, “Machine Learning Level 2”. Kirill walks listeners through why decision trees and random forests are fruitful for businesses, and he offers hands-on walkthroughs for the three leading gradient-boosting algorithms today: XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost.

This episode is brought to you by Ready Tensor, where innovation meets reproducibility (https://www.readytensor.ai/), and by Data Universe, the out-of-this-world data conference (https://datauniverse2024.com). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• All about decision trees [09:28]
• All about ensemble models [22:03]
• All about AdaBoost [38:46]
• All about gradient boosting [46:51]
• Gradient boosting for classification problems [1:01:26]
• All about XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost [1:04:12]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/771

771: Gradient Boosting: XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost, with Kirill Eremenko

Pytorch benefits, how to get funding for your AI startup, and managing scientific silos: In our new series for SuperDataScience, “In Case You Missed It”, host Jon Krohn engages in some “reinforcement learning through human feedback” of his own with need-to-hear sound bites from past SDS episodes!

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/772

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772: In Case You Missed It in March 2024

Tidyverse, ggplot2, and the secret to a tech company’s longevity: Hadley Wickham talks to Jon Krohn about Posit’s rebrand, Tidyverse and why it needs to be in every data scientist’s toolkit, and why getting your hands dirty with open-source projects can be so lucrative for your career.

This episode is brought to you by Intel and HPE Ezmeral Software (https://bit.ly/hpeintel). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• All about the Tidyverse [04:46]
• Hadley’s favorite R libraries [17:10]
• The goal of Posit [30:29]
• On bringing multiple programming languages together [36:02]
• The principles for a long-lasting tech company [52:10]
• How Hadley developed ggplot2 [55:24]
• How to contribute to the open-source community [1:05:43]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/779

779: The Tidyverse of Essential R Libraries and their Python Analogues, with Dr. Hadley Wickham

Hear Jon Krohn’s favorite five clips from his April interviews. Chief Scientist at Posit PBC Hadley Wickham on the subtle differences between Python and R. Professor of Business Analytics Barrett Thomas walks through the variables that companies should consider when using drones or any other tech to improve their business operations and bottom line. Aleksa Gordić, Founder of Runa AI believes an overhaul of the current educational system is long overdue. Bernard Marr discusses the future of GenAI and its impact on the world of work. And SuperDataScience founder Kirill Eremenko gives a lively workshop on gradient boosting.


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782: In Case You Missed It in April 2024

Recent advances in GenAI, how to tackle the climate crisis with advanced technology, and addressing the knowledge gap in understanding AI: Jon Krohn speaks to Flypower co-founder and CEO Navdeep Martin about the advances made in GenAI, from products to applications, and how we might use AI to tackle climate change.

This episode is brought to you by AWS Inferentia (https://go.aws/3zWS0au) and AWS Trainium (https://go.aws/3ycV6K0). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• How the Washington Post’s recommendation systems work [03:29]
• Why product leaders make great CEOs [10:36]
• How Flypower uses GenAI to tackle climate change [22:13]
• How Flypower identifies its customers’ most pertinent questions [30:03]
• How AI might come to tackle climate change [36:52]
• How to mitigate hallucination in AI models [41:04]

Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/783

783: Generative A.I. for Solar Power Installation, with Navdeep Martin

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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