Some of the most asked questions on the channel. Here answered. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://ww...
May 19, 2026•55 min•Ep. 310
Can NPCs in videogames leverage new LLM-based tech? What are the benefits? What are the costs? Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascie...
May 07, 2026•52 min•Ep. 309
What is the state of AI and videogames? Who is considering it? What are the big fails so far? This and much more is covered in this 1st episode of AI and videogames. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.lin...
May 05, 2026•50 min•Ep. 308
Rebuilding a defense industrial base takes 20 years and costs trillions. Tech sovereignty takes 3 years and political will. Europe is doing the hard thing and refusing the easy one. Here's why — and who's profiting from that refusal. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, ...
Apr 21, 2026•28 min•Ep. 307
Internet followed nature. Until it didn't. And became the disaster we know. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH Lin...
Apr 07, 2026•34 min•Ep. 306
Paragon's spyware hacked fully updated iPhones without a single click. Apple just spent $2B on tech that reads your silent speech. And your iCloud? Governments can request it with paperwork. This is what the privacy brand actually buys you. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtH...
Apr 02, 2026•46 min•Ep. 305
Your employees aren't being hacked. They're doing it themselves, one ChatGPT prompt at a time. What is it? And how to fix the biggest corporate espionage of all times. Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https...
Mar 31, 2026•33 min•Ep. 304
Money has always been yours to spend freely. That's about to change. This episode breaks down programmable money, the technology that turns your wallet into a permission system. ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceatho...
Mar 06, 2026•25 min•Ep. 303
Right now, millions of people are simultaneously chatting with a system that remembers nothing, knows nothing, and resets after every message. The engineering keeping that illusion alive is actually the impressive part. ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram...
Mar 03, 2026•39 min•Ep. 302
The brutal truth about why Silicon Valley is blowing billions on glorified autocomplete while pretending it's the next iPhone. We're diving deep into the AI investment circus where VCs who can't code are funding companies that barely understand their own technology. From blockchain déjà vu to the "ChatGPT wrapper" economy—this episode will make you question every AI valuation you've ever seen. Fair warning: We're naming names and calling out the hype. Don't listen if you work at a "revolutionary...
Jan 30, 2026•12 min•Ep. 301
VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously. By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture might solve deep learning's toughest problems—from vanishing gradients to long-range dependencies. Today we explain how vortex shedding, the Strouhal number, and turbulent flows might change everything in AI. Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Statistical Horizons At Statistical Horizons, you can stay ahead with expert-led livestream seminars that make d...
Jan 28, 2026•33 min•Ep. 300
Also on YouTube Two AI experts who actually love the technology explain why chasing AGI might be the worst thing for AI's future—and why the current hype cycle could kill the field we're trying to save. Want to dive deeper? Head to datascienceathome.com for detailed show notes, code examples, and exclusive deep-dives into the papers we discuss. Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly breakdowns of cutting-edge research delivered straight to your inbox—no fluff, just science! 📧 Join the conversat...
Jan 10, 2026•46 min•Ep. 298
Mark Brocato built Mockaroo—the tool that taught millions of developers how to fake data. Now, as Head of Engineering at Tonic.ai, he's building the AI agent that's making his own creation obsolete. In this episode, we explore why static test data can't survive the AI era, what it means to "negotiate" datasets with an agent instead of scripting them, and whether we're heading toward a future where sandbox environments vanish entirely. From the hidden failures of legacy mocks to the security impl...
Dec 22, 2025•34 min•Ep. 299
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a decision-making problem. Matt Lea, founder of Schematical and CloudWarGames, has spent nearly 20 years helping tech leaders ship smarter. In this conversation, he breaks down when AI actually makes sense, where AWS costs spiral out of control, and why your "cool demo" keeps dying before launch. If you're tired of AI hype and ready for straight answers, hit play. Join the conversation! Our Discord community is full of ML engineers, researchers,...
Nov 25, 2025•32 min•Ep. 297
LLMs generate text painfully slow, one low-info token at a time. Researchers just figured out how to compress 4 tokens into smart vectors & cut costs by 44%—with full code & proofs! Meanwhile OpenAI drops product ads, not papers. We explore CALM & why open science matters. 🔥📊 Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Statistical Horizons At Statistical Horizons, you can stay ahead with expert-led livestream seminars that make data analytics and AI methods practical and accessible....
Nov 11, 2025•47 min•Ep. 296
VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously. By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture might solve deep learning's toughest problems—from vanishing gradients to long-range dependencies. Today we explain how vortex shedding, the Strouhal number, and turbulent flows might change everything in AI. Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Statistical Horizons At Statistical Horizons, you can stay ahead with expert-led livestream seminars that make d...
Oct 30, 2025•33 min•Ep. 295
Fred Jordan, Co-CEO of FinalSpark, takes us inside the radical world of biological computing, where real neurons extracted from human tissue are being trained to solve problems that would require 10 megawatts in silicon. We explore the life support systems keeping these "wetware" processors alive, the ethical quandaries of computation performed by living cells, and why the messiness of biology might be exactly what AI needs next. From training cycles and reproducibility challenges to the surpris...
Oct 16, 2025•38 min•Ep. 294
Sanjoy Chowdhury reveals AI's hidden weakness: while systems can see objects and hear sounds perfectly, they can't reason across senses like humans do. His research at University of Maryland College Park, including the Meerkat model and AVTrustBench, exposes why AI recognizes worried faces and thunder separately but fails to connect them—and what this means for self-driving cars and medical AI. Sponsors This episode is proudly sponsored by Amethix Technologies. At the intersection of ethics and ...
Oct 08, 2025•47 min•Ep. 293
This episode exposes the uncomfortable truth: most defense tech startups are just software engineers cosplaying as military innovators, creating fragmented solutions that Pentagon doesn't need. Not now, at least. References War On The Rocks: https://warontherocks.com/2025/08/ukraine-isnt-the-model-for-winning-the-innovation-war/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasrsinger/ Spotify: https://tr.ee/Omy_1X8k1U Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defence-innovation-podcast/id1...
Sep 16, 2025•40 min•Ep. 292
A nostalgic dive into the rise and fall of true hacker culture - from MIT's curious tinkerers to today's hustle-obsessed "founders." Plus, why IRC was peak internet and what we lost when convenience killed community. For anyone who misses when coding was about elegance, not exits.RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses. Interesting link https://www.twitch.tv/tsoding/about Sponsors DSH is proudly sponsored by Amethix Technologies. At the intersection of ethics and engineering...
Aug 29, 2025•45 min•Ep. 291
We were promised robot butlers and got Roombas that cry under the couch. In this brutally honest (and slightly hilarious) episode, Francesco dives into why the robot revolution fizzled, why your dishwasher still needs you, and how robotics became more YouTube circus than household helper. Spoiler: It's not the tech – it's us. Sponsors DSH is proudly sponsored by Amethix Technologies. At the intersection of ethics and engineering, Amethix creates AI systems that don’t just function—they adapt, le...
Aug 05, 2025•16 min•Ep. 290
The brutal truth about why Silicon Valley is blowing billions on glorified autocomplete while pretending it's the next iPhone. We're diving deep into the AI investment circus where VCs who can't code are funding companies that barely understand their own technology. From blockchain déjà vu to the "ChatGPT wrapper" economy—this episode will make you question every AI valuation you've ever seen. Fair warning: We're naming names and calling out the hype. Don't listen if you work at a "revolutionary...
Jul 26, 2025•12 min•Ep. 289
From the viral article "Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything" on my newsletter at https://defragzone.substack.com/p/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing here are my thoughts about AI replacing programmers... 🎙️ Sponsors AGNTCY — The open source collective building the Internet of Agents 🌐 https://www.agntcy.org ✨ Connect with us! 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @Da...
Jul 07, 2025•19 min•Ep. 288
In this episode of Data Science at Home , we explore the fascinating world of neuromorphic computing — a brain-inspired approach to computation that could reshape the future of AI and robotics. The episode breaks down how neuromorphic systems differ from conventional AI architectures like transformers and LLMs, diving into spiking neural networks (SNNs), their benefits in energy efficiency and real-time processing, and their limitations in training and scalability. Real-world applications are hi...
Jun 18, 2025•24 min•Ep. 287
This episode explores the invisible battlespace of cyber and electronic warfare, where AI takes center stage. From autonomous hacking bots to smart jamming and adversarial attacks on machine learning models, we uncover how modern conflicts are increasingly fought with code, not bullets — and why the future of warfare may be decided by algorithms. Sponsors Building multi-agent software is hard — agent-to-agent and agent-to-tool communication is still the wild west. That’s where the AGNTCY, comes ...
Jun 03, 2025•21 min•Ep. 286
Swarming the Battlefield explores how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing combat through coordinated drone swarms. We dive into the algorithms that enable autonomous collaboration, from decentralized decision-making to real-time target allocation, and examine real-world implementations shaping modern battle strategies. This episode uncovers how these intelligent agents turn the chaos of the battlefield into a synchronized dance of machine warfare. Sponsors Warcoded is proudly sponsored by...
May 27, 2025•26 min•Ep. 285
In this gripping follow-up, we dive into how AI is transforming kinetic operations—from identifying a threat to executing a strike. 🔍 Highlights from this episode: How AI compresses the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) The spectrum of autonomy: human-on-the-loop vs. human-out-of-the-loop Real-world systems like loitering munitions (Switchblade, Harpy) and Selective Ground Response AI (SGR-AI) The ethical and legal dimensions of delegating lethal decisions to machines As the lines blur b...
May 14, 2025•26 min•Ep. 284
Welcome to DSH/Warcoded We explore how AI is transforming ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance)—from satellite imagery to drone feeds. In this episode: 🔍 Computer vision for target ID 📡 Predictive surveillance & pattern-of-life modeling 🧠 LLMs for SIGINT & OSINT intelligence briefings 🌍 Real-world examples: Ukraine, Gaza & more Listen now and see how machines are learning to see, predict, and inform at the edge of modern conflict. Sponsors Warcoded is proudly sponsored...
May 07, 2025•19 min•Ep. 283
🎙️ In this episode of Data Science at Home, we sit down with Kenny Vaneetvelde, the mastermind behind Atomic Agents, a groundbreaking framework redefining AI development. 🔍 Discover how atomicity simplifies complex AI systems, why modularity matters more than ever, and how Atomic Agents is eliminating hidden assumptions and redundant complexity in AI workflows. 💡 From real-world applications to the tech stack behind the framework, Kenny takes us on a deep dive into this lightweight, powerful ...
Apr 11, 2025•56 min•Ep. 282
AI shouldn’t be limited to those with access to expensive hardware. This episode explores how to break down barriers by running massive AI models on "crappy machines"—affordable, low-spec devices. Clever techniques like quantization, pruning, model distillation might not be enough. With edge offloading, we can make state-of-the-art AI accessible to hobbyists, researchers, and innovators everywhere. By democratizing AI, we can empower individuals and small teams to experiment, create, and solve p...
Apr 04, 2025•47 min•Ep. 281
