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Adversarial Learning

@joelgrus and @akm talk about data, science, data science, Shingy, and whatever else they feel like

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Adversarial Restarting from 2023-03-20T17:44:36

It's been a couple of years, so Joel and Andrew catch up on what's new in life and in data science.

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Adversarial Distancing, Episode 4: Joel's Fizz Buzz Book from 2020-08-06T13:50:13

It turns out Joel wrote another book: Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz (Quarantine does strange things to a person.)

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Adversarial Distancing, Episode 3: Two Conversations with Jowanza from 2020-06-15T18:19:50

About a month ago we recorded a podcast with Jowanza Joseph about engineering and COVID-19 and other mundane topics.

While I (Jo...

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Adversarial Distancing - Episode 2 from 2020-05-16T16:31:21

Joel and Andrew break quarantine (metaphorically) to discuss treehouses, remote work, distance schooling, outschool.com, Joel's attempt to teach his daughter Python, old-school text adventures, ...

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Adversarial Distancing - Episode 1 from 2020-03-22T00:37:44

in which Joel and Andrew briefly break quarantine to talk about Covid-19, social distancing, and the data science grift

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Episode 21: The Cold Start Problem for Becoming a DJ from 2019-11-08T14:00:21

Our guest this week is Pardis Noorzad (@djpardis), former data science manager at Twitter and now Head of Data Science at Listen

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Episode 20: Churn! Churn! Churn! from 2019-10-30T15:18:50

Our guest this episode is Carl Gold (@carl24k), Chief Data Scientist at Zuora and author of the forthcoming book Fighting Churn with Data. Use the discount code podadvl19 to save some unspecified ...

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Episode 19: Writing the Same Book Twice from 2019-05-24T13:23:38

On this episode, Andrew is joined by Joel Grus (@joelgrus), the author of Data Science from Scratch, whose second edition just came out. They discuss spreadsheets, writing a book, Python 3, type an...

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Episode 18: Never Insult a Pigeon Driving a Bus from 2019-03-12T13:46:08

Our guest this episode is data scientist Peadar Coyle.

Topics include

  • Brexit
  • whether Europe is a Python continent or an...

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Episode 17: Josh Wills from 2019-02-04T15:23:46

Adversarial Learning is back from its extended hiatus! Our guest is famous data scientist Josh Wills. We discuss why Josh is a famous data scientist, what it's like working at Slack, data scienc...

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Episode 16: My Code of Ethics Will Forbid YAML from 2018-05-25T13:42:44

Adversarial Learning is back!
In this long-delayed episode (thanks, technical difficulties)
we are joined by data scientist
Schaun Wheeler...

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Episode 15: Could You Rephrase That As An Ethical Question? from 2017-10-12T13:50:22

Our guest this week is data scientist for good
Lisa Green

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Episode 14: Totally Derivative from 2017-09-25T13:41:56

Our guest this week is flashcard kingpin and former Partially Derivative co-host Chris Albon.

Topics of discussion include

  • how good it feels not to have a podcast
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Episode 13: Back to School from 2017-09-12T04:11:15

It's Back to School time at Adversarial Learning!

back to school

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Episode 12: Data Science Myths from 2017-08-07T13:43:23

Data scientist Vicki Boykis joins Joel and Andrew to variously debunk and rebunk common Data Science Myths. Is data the new oil? Do data scient...

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Episode 11: Data Conferences from 2017-07-26T13:53:25

Andrew and Joel come out of hiatus to discuss data conferences:
when to attend them, how to get your talk accepted,
how to network, optimal heckling strategies, whe...

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Episode 10: Stories of Degradation and Humiliation from 2017-05-22T13:31:36

Friend of the podcast Tim Hopper joins us as we share stories of Very Bad Interviews we've been on. (As you probably expect, Joel has the most humiliat...

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Episode 9: Owning a Planet from 2017-03-20T14:02:24

Our guests this week are Curtis Yarvin and Galen Wolfe-Pauly, which means that our topic is Urbit ("a virtual city of general-purpose personal servers"). Wh...

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Episode 8: On Flink from 2017-03-03T14:42:01

Our guest this week is Trevor Grant (@rawkintrevo), an Open Source Technology Developer Evangelist (or similar) at IBM. We discuss how to be a high...

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Episode 7: Telling a Bot to Go Shove It from 2017-02-24T15:08:36

Our guest this week is Juliet Hougland (@j_houg), data scientist and engineer at Cloudera. We discuss that Listen

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Episode 6: Good Data Science Is Always Political from 2017-02-10T15:06:27

Is good data science always political? Our regularly scheduled guest had to cancel at the last minute, so Joel and Andrew decided to talk about politics. 

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Episode 5: The Legend of Plas Vander from 2017-01-13T15:08:19

Our guest is Jake VanderPlas, who is a real Data Science Fellow at the UW eScience Institute, and is the author of the recently published Listen

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Episode 4: Datasets We Hate from 2017-01-03T14:34:36

Our guest this week is Sarah Guido (@sarah_guido), Senior Data Scientist at Mashable. We discuss datasets we hate, how to pronounce "La Croix", what makes "library science" a science, 9/11, data...

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Episode 3: Beantown Data Science from 2016-12-23T05:29:21

Our guest this week is Andrew Therriault (@therriaultphd). We talk about data science in the big city, politics, slime in the ice machine, labor unions, how easy it is to join datasets, and whet...

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Episode Two: The Tallest Data Scientist from 2016-12-07T05:42:45

Our guest this week is Tim Hopper (@tdhopper), the tallest data scientist. We discuss life, blogs, robots, Twitter, and other data-related stuff, but Joel keeps returning to the topic of his hei...

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Episode One: A New Hope from 2016-11-11T00:41:20

In the first episode, Joel and Andrew cover who they are, how they met, how they got into data science, why they have a podcast, and chat about topics they have in mind, including but not limite...

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