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July 23, 2020

Getting beneath the usual machine learning metaphors: A new podcast

Google has just launched a new podcast that Yannick Assogba (twitter: @tafsiri) and I put together. Yannick is a software engineer at Google PAIR where I was a writer-in-residence for two years, until mid-June. I am notably not a software engineer. Throughout the course of the nine episodes, Yannick helps me train machine learning models to play Tic Tac Toe and then a much more complex version of it. Then our models fight! (Guess who wins? Never mind.)

This is definitely not a tutorial. We’re focused on getting beneath the metaphors we usually use when talking about machine learning. In so doing, we keep coming back to the many human decisions that have to be made along the way.

So the podcast is for anyone who wants to get a more vivid sense of how ML works and the ways in which human intentions and assumptions shape each and every ML application. The podcast doesn’t require any math or programming skills.

It’s chatty and fun, and full of me getting simple things wrong. And Yannick is a fantastic teacher. I miss seeing him every day :(

All nine episodes are up now. They’re about 25 mins each. You can find them wherever you get your podcasts, so long as it carries ours.

Podcast: https://pair.withgoogle.com/thehardway/

Two-minute teaser:  https://share.transistor.fm/s/6768a641

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Categories: misc Tagged with: ai • everydaychaos • machine learning • podcast Date: July 23rd, 2020 dw

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September 14, 2013

Interview with John Sundman

John Sundman is a heck of an interesting person. He’s been around the technology circuit from the Old Days (we’re peers in the chronological sense) but he also writes damn good fiction, some of which (Cheap Complex Devices [my review][sf site][goodreads]) is pretty sublime.

So how does a talented writer make a living in the Webby world? He and I have a long conversation about that and many other things.

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Categories: culture, podcast Tagged with: fiction • john sundman • podcast • writing Date: September 14th, 2013 dw

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June 21, 2013

[lodlam] Kevin Ford on the state of BIBFRAME

Kevin Ford who is a principle member of the team behind the Library of Congress’ BIBFRAME effort — a modern replacement for the aging MARC standard — gives an update on its status, and addresses a controversy about whether it’s “webby” enough. (I liveblogged a session about this at LODLAM.)

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Categories: interop, libraries, podcast Tagged with: bibframe • libraries • linked data • lodlam • marc • podcast Date: June 21st, 2013 dw

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[lodlam] Kitio Fofack on why Linked Data

Kitio Fofack turned to Linked Data when creating a prototype app that aggregated researcher events. He explains why.

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Categories: interop, libraries, podcast Tagged with: libraries • linked data • lodlam • podcast Date: June 21st, 2013 dw

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Debra Riley-Huff on library data from a Webby point of view

Debra Riley-Huff [twitter: huff] explains what some of the library metadata standards (including BIBFRAME and Schema.org) look like from the point of view of a Web developer.

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Categories: everythingIsMiscellaneous, libraries, podcast Tagged with: everythingIsMiscellaneous • podcast Date: June 21st, 2013 dw

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June 20, 2013

[lodlam] Richard Urban on LOD patterns

At the LODLAM conference, Richard Urban suggests that we build a pattern library so that people can identify common problems and common linked data solutions.

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Categories: libraries, podcast Tagged with: libraries • linked data • lodlam • podcast Date: June 20th, 2013 dw

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June 15, 2012

Interop: The podcast

My Radio Berkman interview of John Palfrey and Urs Gasser about their suprisingly wide-ranging book Interop is now up, as is the video of their Berkman book talk…

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Categories: berkman, podcast Tagged with: berkman • books • interop • interoperability • john palfrey • podcast • urs gasser Date: June 15th, 2012 dw

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March 1, 2012

[2b2k] Moi

Leadereview has posted an interview (mp3) with me from a few nights ago. I thought they asked great questions.

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Categories: too big to know Tagged with: 2b2k • leadership • podcast Date: March 1st, 2012 dw

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February 27, 2012

[2b2k] Moi

EconTalk has posted an hour interview with me by Russ Roberts about some of the topics in Too Big to Know that don’t come up so often.

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Categories: podcast, too big to know Tagged with: 2b2k • facts • podcast Date: February 27th, 2012 dw

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February 22, 2012

[2b2k] The Surprisingly Free interview

Surprisingly Free has posted its podcast interview with me, by Jerry Brito. Unsurprisingly, it’s free!

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Categories: podcast, too big to know Tagged with: 2b2k • podcast Date: February 22nd, 2012 dw

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