Today’s guest is Lisa Palmer, Chief Technology Advisor at Splunk, to talk about the latest trending in technology and AI. Topics include real time decision making, wildfires, manufacturing, augmented intelligence, augmented reality, chatbots, and business to business. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
ANNOUNCING maximum.locals.com , a community for Local Maximum listeners and supporters. They also discuss the decline in quality of the dominant social media platforms, and the idea of internet detoxification. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley joins The Local Maximum to discuss authoring a graduate level book on Topology, the mathematics of language, and the application of quantum probability to machine learning. Don’t miss today’s fascinating discussion! Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Today’s episode features Max’s talk at pymcon 2020 on the interpretation of probability. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Today’s guest is Brian Mac Mahon, CEO of Expert DOJO Startup Accelerator to talk about some of his startups that are succeeding internationally right now and how startup founders handle crisis. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Max and Aaron discuss the 2020 election one last time until election day. They give listeners reasons not to panic. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
This week Max and the Foursquare Labs team launched Marsbot for Airpods, a personal assistant that plays contextual audio through your headphones about the specific spots you pass by as you walk throughout your town or city. Aaron interviews Max about the product, and Maryam Aly rejoins The Local Maximum for a more technical and insider discussion with Max. Then, we talk about a related announcement in the AR space. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe...
Max talks about the recent blackout of a New York Post article on Twitter and Facebook in the larger context of the evolving approach that these companies are taking to controlling your information diet. Also, Max looks at potential sources of error in the presidential polling and where they might come from if they do indeed exist. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe...
Max talks to Alex Andorra of pollsposition.com to discuss why election polling is so difficult, and what could go wrong with the polls in the US presidential election. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Max and Aaron do a tech update about Coinbase's controversial new policy of going apolitical, Facebook's Libra currency behind schedule, and what Deepfakes will mean for social media. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
On this science update on the Local Maximum, we discuss the possibility of life in the atmosphere of Venus, as well as a surprising finding about Viking genetics. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Today’s show features callers and emails from the Local Maximum Audience. One listenered learned about Bayesian inference and published a manuscript on Bayes Rule applied to Covid-19 Testing. Another listener introduced me to a topological approach to representing numbers in computer science. A third listener had some point to make on the Electoral College. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe...
In today’s episode, Max talks about why election predictions that veer too far off from 50% and have high variance over time carry little weight. We learn several arguments why, plus we learn about the idea of a probability martingale. Also, it’s been 25 years since the introduction of Windows 95. Why is that interesting and what does it say about the nature of human computer interaction and tech marketing. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe...
Today’s Local Maximum continues the discussion of the difference statistical models, and the knowledge needed to understand something like language. Also - can AI be used to extend our memory, and discussion of an op-ed that disputes the remote work trend. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Max talks about current tech news, including openAI's GPT-3, and wrapping our heads around natural language understanding. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
What is topology, and could there be an application in AI? Max and Aaron use common language to talk about a field of mathematics known as topology, and an interesting subfield of that known as pointless topology. They end with knot theory and meticulous predictions. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Rob Bernstein (@robbiethefire) - standup comedian and host of the Run Your Mouth podcast - joins the Local Maximum. The conversation with Max covers podcasting, comedy during the pandemic, his ongoing summer porch tour, New York City, and the presidential election. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Today’s guest is Jeff Meyerson, host of the Software Engineering Daily Podcast. Max and Jeff talk about his talk last year “You are not a commodity” to software engineers, the assembly line mentality, remote work, and podcasting in general. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Today's discussion centers around the difficulty in pursuing truth, knowledge, and engineering feats in an age of hyper-politics. Max and Aaron start with Lawrence Krauss's article in the Wall Street Journal on "The Ideological Corruption of Science", then move into whether it's possible to remain apolitical, and considering the ethical implications of research. Finally, they give an update on "Fake Faces" and how they are being used to push slanted news articles. Get full access to The Local Ma...
Max talks to João Graça, CTO of multilingual translation platform Unbabel to talk about the past, present, and future of translation technology and the role of machine learning. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Today's discussion centers on recent speculation about long term population transfers between the city, the suburbs, and the countryside, and the issues facing cities in America right now. We also talk about the rise of Amazon Go stores, and why and how this technology might spread to other types of stores around the world. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe...
Max checks in with Kristen Sosulski, NYU Professor and Author of Data Visualization Made Simple. They discuss some of the basic principles of data visualization, and some common approaches and pitfalls. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
This companion to episode 125 on the Electoral College starts with an interview of Ernie Dronenberg in California who was a member of the Electoral College in 1980! Afterwards, Max talks about different models of voting systems in social choice theory: Rankings, Condorcet Methods, Condorcet Paradoxes, Monotone Boolean Functions, and Shapley values. This ends with a discussion of the ways in which mathematical models of voting do not match the social dynamics of a real election, the positive prop...
Today begins a 2 part series on the Electoral College, and the way in which the President of the United States is elected. Tara Ross is a nationally recognized author and expert on the electoral college, and her recent book, “Why We Need the Electoral College” provides a justification and defense of the electoral college system. Today’s interview covers: - Some of the mechanics of a presidential election - Responses to some common criticisms of the electoral college - Comparisons between the ele...
Today’s discussion centers around the trend of the big social networks (Twitter and Facebook) to fact-check certain accounts. Can fact checking be fair, and is it consistent with open discussion? This episode also covers the activist culture and pressures faces by companies and workplaces today. Also, a new image processing ML algorithm which generates an image from a pixelated version has promise and pitfalls. localmaxradio.com/124 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.c...
Today’s episode features Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of the book Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who we Really Are. Discussion topics include research on NBA demographics, horse racing, Google search data and Coronavirus, and validating Google analytics. localmaxradio.com/123 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe...
This episode focuses on life in 2020 with pandemics, lockdowns, protests, curfews, looting, and more. Max gives an update on New York city. At the end of the show, hospital administrator Ben Geboe calls in with his pandemic experiences. localmaxradio.com/122 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Max and Aaron return for a June news update. In addition to providing a first hand account of the protests and disturbances in Fort Greene, they update us on: - The private space race, SpaceX’s Launch, and Future Moon Landings - The heist of 20 million in Bitcoin by a Westchester teen, and what you can do to protect yourself - The breakdown of social media and the war between Twitter and Donald Trump localmaxradio.com/121 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscrib...
Max makes his case on the ineffectiveness of lockdowns. Concepts of the week include confounders and colliders, which are subjects in causality theory, and Simpon’s Paradox where correlations flip based on how the data is bucketed. localmaxradio.com/120 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe
Today’s guest is Brian Blais, a professor of Science at Bryant University. His approach to teaching statistical inference includes taking the Bayesian approach instead of delegating it to an advanced or elective topic. We talk about the Bayesian vs Frequentist debate, how to navigate the disconnect between them, and the role of imagination when discovering truth. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe...
