Data Science at Home Podcast https://datascienceathome.com/ Brewing insights, One episode at a time Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:15:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://datascienceathome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-dsh-cover-2-scaled-1-32x32.jpg Data Science at Home Podcast https://datascienceathome.com/ 32 32 There Is No AI. There’s a Stateless Function on 10,000 GPUs Pretending to Know You (Ep. 299) https://datascienceathome.com/there-is-no-ai-theres-a-stateless-function-on-10000-gpus-pretending-to-know-you-ep-299/ https://datascienceathome.com/there-is-no-ai-theres-a-stateless-function-on-10000-gpus-pretending-to-know-you-ep-299/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:15:16 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=1951 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 […]

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/bias-in-the-machine-edited/feed/ 0 What is wrong with reinforcement learning? (Ep. 82) https://datascienceathome.com/what-is-wrong-with-reinforcement-learning-ep-82/ https://datascienceathome.com/what-is-wrong-with-reinforcement-learning-ep-82/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:27:38 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=522 Join the discussion on our Discord server
 
After reinforcement learning agents doing great at playing Atari video games, Alpha Go, doing financial trading, dealing with language modeling, let me tell you the real story here.In this episode I want to shi...

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/what-is-wrong-with-reinforcement-learning-ep-82/feed/ 0 How to generate very large images with GANs (Ep. 76) https://datascienceathome.com/how-to-generate-very-large-images-with-gans-ep-76/ https://datascienceathome.com/how-to-generate-very-large-images-with-gans-ep-76/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:27:30 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=524 Join the discussion on our Discord server
In this episode I explain how a research group from the University of Lubeck dominated the curse of dimensionality for the generation of large medical images with GANs. The problem is not as trivial as it seems. ...

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/how-to-generate-very-large-images-with-gans-ep-76/feed/ 0 Training neural networks faster without GPU [RB] (Ep. 77) https://datascienceathome.com/training-neural-networks-faster-without-gpu-rb-ep-77/ https://datascienceathome.com/training-neural-networks-faster-without-gpu-rb-ep-77/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:27:17 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=523 Join the discussion on our Discord server
Training neural networks faster usually involves the usage of powerful GPUs. In this episode I explain an interesting method from a group of researchers from Google Brain, who can train neural networks faster...

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/training-neural-networks-faster-without-gpu-rb-ep-77/feed/ 0 More powerful deep learning with transformers (Ep. 84) (Rebroadcast) https://datascienceathome.com/more-powerful-deep-learning-with-transformers-ep-84-rebroadcast/ https://datascienceathome.com/more-powerful-deep-learning-with-transformers-ep-84-rebroadcast/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:27:04 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=492 Some of the most powerful NLP models like BERT and GPT-2 have one thing in common: they all use the transformer architecture. Such architecture is built on top of another important concept already known to the community: self-attention.In this episode I ...

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/more-powerful-deep-learning-with-transformers-ep-84-rebroadcast/feed/ 0 Your Favorite AI Startup is Probably Bullshit (Ep. 298) [RB] https://datascienceathome.com/your-favorite-ai-startup-is-probably-bullshit-ep-298-rb/ https://datascienceathome.com/your-favorite-ai-startup-is-probably-bullshit-ep-298-rb/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:26:31 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=1942 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 […]

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/your-favorite-ai-startup-is-probably-bullshit-ep-298-rb/feed/ 0 Why AI Researchers Are Suddenly Obsessed With Whirlpools (Ep. 297) [RB] https://datascienceathome.com/why-ai-researchers-are-suddenly-obsessed-with-whirlpools-ep-297-rb/ https://datascienceathome.com/why-ai-researchers-are-suddenly-obsessed-with-whirlpools-ep-297-rb/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:26:23 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=1941 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 […]

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/why-ai-researchers-are-suddenly-obsessed-with-whirlpools-ep-297-rb/feed/ 0 AGI: The Dream We Should Never Reach (Ep. 296) https://datascienceathome.com/agi-the-dream-we-should-never-reach-ep-296/ https://datascienceathome.com/agi-the-dream-we-should-never-reach-ep-296/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:26:14 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=1940 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 […]

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]]> https://datascienceathome.com/agi-the-dream-we-should-never-reach-ep-296/feed/ 0 When Data Stops Being Code and Starts Being Conversation (Ep. 297) https://datascienceathome.com/when-data-stops-being-code-and-starts-being-conversation-ep-297/ https://datascienceathome.com/when-data-stops-being-code-and-starts-being-conversation-ep-297/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:59:20 +0000 https://datascienceathome.com/?p=1938 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 […]

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