"If you follow your passion and marry it with Data Science, it can really take you to great places," says Jason Moss. In 2013, Jason launched Metis a data science bootcamp (now a part of Kaplan). Starting in Boston as Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, Metis pivoted quickly into a Data Science Bootcamp six months later. Jason offers his opinions on the quickly changing job market tagged broadly as "Data Science." He speaks about the personal journeys of his motivated students who wish to take it to the nex...
Feb 04, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 2
This episode introduces our audience to perhaps one of the rarest AI practitioners, an AI serial entrepreneur. Alex Poon with his first AI startup x.ai, helped users recapture lost time spent scheduling meetings. X.ai also rehabilitated the term AI after a long winter for the discipline. Today’s visit with Alex, we revisit early days when he built x.ai and had to custom craft many tools available as readily accessible open source projects today. Our guest provides a comparison on building an AI ...
Jan 22, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Second part of our 2 part series with Anaconda founder and CEO, Peter Wang, we get to the core reason why this podcast exists. We want everybody more literate about the tech wave that promises to fundamentally change how we live. In this session, Peter reminds us how in the atomic age, people wanted nuclear underwear. With nuclear power, though, the possible devastation is palpable for a casual observer. Do average users of AI understand that irresponsibly deployed AI can harm people, societies,...
Dec 31, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In the Python world and in the scientific Python world especially, Peter needs no introduction. Anaconda's CEO shared with us, "Anaconda has more users than World of Warcraft, Matlab, SAS, Tableau, and Dropbox Combined." We had so much fun, our conversation ran long, long enough for 26.1 AI Podcast's first serial two part interview with a guest. During our conversation, Peter gets philosophical. As a technologist and a practitioner he discusses the hype v. reality. Our guest posits there is an, ...
Dec 10, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 15
For those listening and seeking information about how to launch a career in data and AI, we go deeper than any prior episode into an investigation of how folks become professionals in the space. We interview in this episode Jennifer Shin, an AI practitioner fluent in business. We touch on what launched Jennifer on her path to data and evidence. A search for answers added skills and experience in coding and analytics in our guest's toolbox. in addition to practicing AI, she's forging future leade...
Dec 03, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Kripa Rajshekhar joins us this week with a discussion on human centric AI. Kripa is committed to updating his knowledge on the latest in AI. He is the founder of Metonymize, a team committed to Third Wave Artificial Intelligence. They have a big win applying this AI to law. In the Summer of 2017, a Metonymize algorithm passed a "Turing Test" equivalent for patent law. The Metonymize team has a combined 100+ years of experience on the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence. They build solutions ...
Nov 19, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 13
We welcome Michael Agustin for this week’s episode. He previously founded Game Salad, a startup that allowed anyone to develop video games using a visual programming interface. For Game Salad, Michael raised $25m in capital, and investors included impressive organizations like Disney. Currently, Michael is advancing optical AI, with current startup Curie. Recently he finished with the latest batch of 500 Startups, Curie offers retailers, mobile users’ cameras as a new channel. Might sound strang...
Nov 12, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 12
This week we host Jim Ni for a discussion that business leaders will love. A goal for Brian and Don is to reach non-practitioners and help them drive forward AI adoption in their orgs. Thanks to Jim's concise explanation of what he's discovering with financial services firms needs, our business audience will get a lot of out of our latest episode.
Nov 05, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Don and Brian do a quick 26.1 recap of the previous 9 episodes and discuss some trends they are seeing driving this popular podcast. Good episode to start with if you haven't listened yet. Use this recap as an index to find episodes you want to listen to first.
Oct 29, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 10
For episode 9 of 26.1 AI Podcast, our guest Andrea Brice takes us back to early days of mobile telcom. She hacked together data science and algorithms reviewed by the C-suite at McCaw Cellular that became Cingular then AT&T Wireless. Making it all work on top of Oracle relational databases, Andrea shares how excited she was to find open source tools when she left telcom. Also our guest reminds of the engineering rigor present in telcom teams that we sorely need as AI and data science mature ...
Oct 22, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Our guest this week, Dr. Rajiv Shah, recently generated a lively discussion on Reddit. Subject of the debate was reproducibility of an article published in the notable science journal Nature. In this case unlike episode 7 of 26.1, where Dr. Rachael Tatman touched on her efforts to get industry AI folks to follow academia’s standards for reproducibility, Dr. Shah shared how using the same dataset as the article authors, he was unable to reproduce the results. In this case the aim of the paper's a...
Oct 15, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This week’s episode may be our most cerebral to date, probably thanks to hosting our first University of Washington Husky, Ph.D. graduate. Dr. Rachael Tatman shares snippets of her experience at Kaggle, stochastic approaches to ML models, errors in ML models, understanding prediction, and importance of reproducibility. A big takeaway references Dr. Tatman’s PyCon talk, “Put down the deep learning: When not to use neural networks and what to do instead.” We explore how many businesses benefit fro...
Oct 08, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week we have Algorithmia founder and CTO Kenny Daniel. Algorithmia has grown tenfold over the past six years, and the startup just completed a $25m Series B raise in May. Perhaps our densest episode to date, we manage to pack a lot into a nearly perfect 26.1 minutes. We cover in this episode -- Algorithmia’s founding story with Kenny’s fellow founder Diego Oppenheimer, challenges bridging the culture between traditional software professionals and the current practices of AI professionals, n...
Oct 01, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This week’s guest Mark Hoffman shares how exposure to data analysis in a nuclear physics lab led to him joining years later NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a data scientist. At NASA, he’s repurposed ML work he delivered on fraud detection for one of the country’s largest healthcare orgs for NASA’s projects where spacecraft sensors deliver many false alarms. Included in this episode is Mark’s experience launching a successful startup applying ML for black car services. This startup was successf...
Sep 24, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this interview we speak with Venice, CA based tech insider Everett Carney on broad range of tech topics including blockchain, GANs for players to generate custom goods within games, and compliance around AI. Along with some future thinking and optimism about AI/Blockchain, out guest sprinkled in some precautions as well.
Sep 17, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Meet Ramkumar Hariharan head of applied AI at macro-eyes. A startup, macro-eyes has won two Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations awards. Learn how appearing on Indian television and radio contributed importantly to Ram’s journey becoming an AI practitioner and educator. Also how Ram and team deploys AI in India, Africa, and Seattle to improve medical outcomes for access to care and effective vaccination programs. Once again, learn about AI in an easily digested 26.1 mi...
Sep 10, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Avilay is one of the 60 original creators of Microsoft Windows Azure platform, has done machine learning on circuit printed socks for an IoT startup, was an engineer at Amazon, and now is launching the ability to create 3D simulations of real life cities and places on the Unity platform for training AI models dependent on visual data.
Sep 03, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Terrazas is the AI LA President @aila_community and Founder @grassy_vibe. Don and Brian ask Todd about his progression toward becoming a story teller in the AI Space, current involvement, travels, the LA AI Tech scene, and future events.
Aug 28, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 1
