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Data Skeptic
The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.
Episodes
Data SkepticGraphs and ML for Robotics
We are joined by Abhishek Paudel, a PhD Student at George Mason University with a research focus on robotics, machine learning, and planning under uncertainty…
Data SkepticGraphs for HPC and LLMs
We are joined by Maciej Besta, a senior researcher of sparse graph computations and large language models at the Scalable Parallel Computing Lab (SPCL). In…
Data SkepticGraph Databases and AI
In this episode, we sit down with Yuanyuan Tian, a principal scientist manager at Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, to discuss the evolving role of graph databases…
Data SkepticNetwork Analysis in Practice
Our new season "Graphs and Networks" begins here! We are joined by new co-host Asaf Shapira, a network analysis consultant and the podcaster of NETfrix – the…
Data SkepticAnimal Intelligence Final Exam
Join us for our capstone episode on the Animal Intelligence season. We recap what we loved, what we learned, and things we wish we had gotten to spend more…
Data SkepticProcess Mining with LLMs
David Obembe, a recent University of Tartu graduate, discussed his Masters thesis on integrating LLMs with process mining tools. He explained how process…
Data SkepticOpen Animal Tracks
Our guest today is Risa Shinoda, a PhD student at Kyoto University Agricultural Systems Engineering Lab, where she applies computer vision techniques. She…
Data SkepticBird Distribution Modeling with Satbird
This episode features an interview with Mélisande Teng, a PhD candidate at Université de Montréal. Her research lies in the intersection of remote sensing and…
Data SkepticAnt Encounters
In this interview with author Deborah Gordon, Kyle asks questions about the mechanisms at work in an ant colony and what ants might teach us about how to build…
Data SkepticComputing Toolbox
This season it's become clear that computing skills are vital for working in the natural sciences. In this episode, we were fortunate to speak with Madlen…
Data SkepticBiodiversity Monitoring
In this episode, we talked shop with Hager Radi about her biodiversity monitoring work. While biodiversity modeling may sound simple, count organisms and mark…
Data SkepticHacking the Colony
Today, Ashay Aswale and Tony Lopez shared their work on swarm robotics and what they have learned from ants. Robotic swarms must solve the same problems that…
Data SkepticPrimate Poses
During this season we have talked with researchers working to utilize machine learning for behavioral observations. In previous episodes, you have heard about…
Data SkepticGenerating 3D Animals with YouDream
Generative AI can struggle to create realistic animals and 2D representations often have mistakes like extra limbs and tails. If 2D wasn't hard enough, there…
Data SkepticWeird Communication
Today, we sat down with Dr. Ignacio Escalante Meza to learn about opiliones and treehoppers. Opiliones, known as "daddy long legs" in the US, are understudied…
Data SkepticReducing the Impact of Ship Noise on Marine Mammals
Human shipping operations have increased significantly in the past few decades. While that means international trade and cheap goods for humans, it also means…
Data SkepticAnalysis of Unstructured Data
Robbie Moon from the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business joins us to discuss the analysis of unstructured data and the application of NLP methodologies…
Data SkepticiNaturalist
Have you ever participated in citizen science? Do you want to? One of the most popular platforms for crowdsourcing biodiversity data is iNaturalist. In…
Data SkepticLearn to Code
Do you code or are you interested in learning to code? Join us today and hear from three individuals that are at very different stages of their coding…
Data SkepticAnimal Computer Interaction
You've heard of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), now get ready for Animal Computer Interaction (ACI). Ilyena has made a career developing computer interfaces…
Data SkepticApe Gestures
Cat observes great apes in the wild and in the lab to crack the code of their gestural communication. We discussed the challenges and benefits of studying apes…
Data SkepticEvaluating AI Abilities
In this episode, Kozzy discusses his endeavors to compare the cognitive abilities of humans, animals, and AI programs. Specifically, we discussed object…
Data SkepticHMMs for Behavior
Théo Michelot has made a career out of tackling tough ecological questions using time-series data. How do scientists turn a series of GPS location observations…
Data SkepticBioinspired Engineering
Brian Taylor shares his research on magnetoreception. Animals like birds and sea turtles use magnetoreception to use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation…
Data SkepticModelling Evolution
Modeling evolutionary processes goes way beyond the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium we all learned in biology class. Natural selection comes from many sources like…
Data SkepticBehavioral Genetics
It's almost impossible to think about animal behavior without thinking of dogs! Our canine friends are a subspecies of wolf that has been co-evolving with us…
Data SkepticSignal in the Noise
In this episode, we are joined by Barbara Webb and Anna Hadjitofi. Barbara runs the Insect Robotics lab at the University of Edinburgh, and Anna is a PhD…
Data SkepticPose Tracking
Many researchers and students have painstakingly labeled precise details about the body positions of the creatures they study. Can AI be used for this…
Data SkepticModeling Group Behavior
Our guest in this episode is Sebastien Motsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, working in the School of Mathematical and Statistical…
Data SkepticAdvances in Data Loggers
Our guest in this episode is Ryan Hanscom. Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in a joint doctoral evolution program at San Diego State University and the University of…
Data SkepticWhat You Know About Intelligence is Wrong (fixed)
We are joined by Hank Schlinger, a professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. His research revolves around theoretical issues in…
Data SkepticAnimal Decision Making
On today's episode, we are joined by Aimee Dunlap. Aimee is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and the interim director at the…
Data SkepticOctopus Cognition
We are joined by Tamar Gutnick, a visiting professor at the University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy. She studies the octopus nervous system and their…
Data SkepticOptimal Foraging
Claire Hemmingway, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, is…
Data SkepticMemory in Chess
On today's show, we are joined by our co-host, Becky Hansis-O'Neil. Becky is a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, St Louis, where she studies…
Data SkepticOpenWorm
On this episode, we are joined by Stephen Larson, the CEO of MetaCell and an affiliate of the OpenWorm foundation. Stephen discussed what the Openworm project…
Data SkepticWhat the Antlion Knows
Our guest is Becky Hansis-O'Neil, a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, St Louis, and our co-host for the new "Animal Intelligence" season. Becky…
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AI Roundtable
Kyle is joined by friends and former guests Pramit Choudhary and Frank Bell to have an open discussion of the impacts LLMs and machine learning have had in the…
Data SkepticUncontrollable AI Risks
We are joined by Darren McKee, a Policy Advisor and the host of Reality Check — a critical thinking podcast. Darren gave a background about himself and how he…
Data SkepticI LLM and You Can Too
It took a massive financial investment for the first large language models (LLMs) to be created. Did their corporate backers lock these tools away for all but…
Data SkepticQ&A with Kyle
We celebrate episode 1000000000 with some Q&A from host Kyle Polich. We boil this episode down to four key questions: 1) How do you find guests 2) What is Data…
Data SkepticLLMs for Data Analysis
In this episode, we are joined by Amir Netz, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the CTO of Microsoft Fabric. He discusses how companies can use Microsoft's…
Data SkepticAI Platforms
Our guest today is Eric Boyd, the Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft. Eric joins us to share how organizations can leverage AI for faster development…
Data SkepticDeploying LLMs
We are excited to be joined by Aaron Reich and Priyanka Shah. Aaron is the CTO at Avanade, while Priyanka leads their AI/IoT offering for the SEA Region…
Data SkepticA Survey Assessing Github Copilot
In this episode, we are joined by Jenny Liang, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studies the usability of code generation tools. She…
Data SkepticProgram Aided Language Models
We are joined by Aman Madaan and Shuyan Zhou. They are both PhD students at the Language Technology Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. They join us to…
Data SkepticWhich Programming Language is ChatGPT Best At
In this episode, we have Alessio Buscemi, a software engineer at Lifeware SA. Alessio was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg. He joins…
Data SkepticGraphText
On the show today, we are joined by Jianan Zhao, a Computer Science student at Mila and the University of Montreal. His research focus is on graph databases…
Data SkepticarXiv Publication Patterns
Today, we are joined by Rajiv Movva, a PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech University. His research interest lies in the intersection of…
Data SkepticDo LLMs Make Ethical Choices
We are excited to be joined by Josh Albrecht, the CTO of Imbue. Imbue is a research company whose mission is to create AI agents that are more robust, safer…
Data SkepticEmergent Deception in LLMs
On today's show, we are joined by Thilo Hagendorff, a Research Group Leader of Ethics of Generative AI at the University of Stuttgart. He joins us to discuss…
Data SkepticAgents with Theory of Mind Play Hanabi
Nieves Montes, a Ph.D. student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, joins us. Her PhD research revolves around value-based…
Data SkepticLLMs for Evil
We are joined by Maximilian Mozes, a PhD student at the University College, London. His PhD research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly…
Data SkepticThe Defeat of the Winograd Schema Challenge
Our guest today is Vid Kocijan, a Machine Learning Engineer at Kumo AI. Vid has a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. His research focused…
Data SkepticLLMs in Social Science
Today, We are joined by Petter Törnberg, an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the…
Data SkepticLLMs in Music Composition
In this episode, we are joined by Carlos Hernández Oliván, a Ph.D. student at the University of Zaragoza. Carlos's interest focuses on building new models for…
Data SkepticCuttlefish Model Tuning
Hongyi Wang, a Senior Researcher at the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us. His research is in the intersection of systems and…
Data SkepticWhich Professions Are Threatened by LLMs
On today's episode, we have Daniel Rock, an Assistant Professor of Operations Information and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of…
Data SkepticWhy Prompting is Hard
We are excited to be joined by J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. He focuses on the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and…
Data SkepticAutomated Peer Review
In this episode, we are joined by Ryan Liu, a Computer Science graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Ryan will begin his Ph.D. program at Princeton…