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Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning Podcast

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Can someone explain to me why they call out being a "nerd"?

...we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adam (nerd, Harvard computer science professor)...

Seems a bit misplaced.

Also, Yoshua gave a great, albeit slightly controversial for the crowd, talk at AGI 14 in Quebec this summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24

Because non-nerds now call themselves nerds as "nerd" is associated with having domain expertise in a giving subject i.e CS. In their views what we "do" is nerdy so we are by definition nerds too.

Good talk, but how was that controversial?

Not conventionally so, I think some of the AGI people think his un-supervised/supervised training thoughts do not lend themselves towards AGI/Strong AI.

Sounds interesting. Couldn't find an RSS feed on your site. Where can I subscribe?

If you're into data science podcasts... this one has been going for a couple months and getting some attention. http://www.partiallyderivative.com/

Is there an rss feed to subscribe to or is it only for iTunes?

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/

this url works with feedly

Could you see the iTunes podcast link? I couldn't fine one.

The iTunes link is still pending Apple's approval... Hopefully it'll be up soon!

The rss feed is http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog?format=RSS

Cool. Works perfectly with Pocketcasts. Art and notes too.

They recommend the book "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" by Kevin P. Murphy.

I've only read a few chapters from this, but I've heard it recommended highly by others as well.

Really great idea - I'll definitely be listening.

I submitted this around 9 hours ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8830057

In that case the post did get some attention, but not enough to count the repost as a dupe, so we've moved the comments over from the previous thread.

Sorry I didn't see that one. Thanks for posting!

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