Journal Club

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Journal Club

Welcome to a brand new show from Data Skeptic entitled "Journal Club". Each episode will feature a regular panel and one revolving guest seat. The group will discuss a few topics related to data science and focus on one featured scholarly paper which is discussed in detail.

09/16/2020

Science Fiction, Training Thousands at Home, and AutoML-Zero

This week we are back with our regular panelists! Kyle brings us a short article exploring science fiction impacting AI titled "Survey Finds Science Fiction One of Many Factors Impacting Views of AI Technology." George brings us an article about using thousands fo computers from universities, companies and volunteers to train one huge transformer, titled "Train Vast Neural Networks Together." Last but not least Lan brings us the paper this week! She discusses the paper "AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch."

31 min
09/10/2020

DNA Storage, Assessing COVID-19 Risks, and NLP Beyond English

We are back with other guest this week! We have NLP/ML research scientist, Fredrik Olsson joining us. He discusses the work "Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English." Lan brings us a news item, "Research News: DNA Storage." George talks about the article "Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases." Last but not least, Kyle brings us the paper this week. He brings the paper, "Machine Reasoning to Assess Pandemics Risks: Case of USS Theodore Roosevelt."

53 min
09/01/2020

Sound Detection, Exam Algorithm, and Search Result Fairness

Rachel Bittner, a research scientist at Spotify, joins us in our discussion this week! She brings us the paper "Few-Shot Sound Event Detection." Lan discusses an article about fairness of search results. George talks about a blog post from England about an algorithm grading exams and the controversy around it. Last but not least, Kyle brings us an article titled "Eye-Catching Advances in Some AI Fields are not Real."

41 min
08/26/2020

Stitch Fix, Carbon Footprints, and AI with Human Values

Back with our regular panelists! This week Lan brings us an article about the clothing subscription service Stitch Fix called "Multi-Armed Bandits and the Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded." Kyle discusses a news item titled "Shrinking Deep Learning's Carbon Footprint." Last but not least George brings the paper this week titled "Aligning AI With Shared Human Values."

39 min
08/14/2020

Facial Recognition, Identifying Birds with AI, and Zebrafish Tail Buds

Back again with our regular panelists! This week George brings us an interesting article about how an AI developed to identify individual birds without tagging. Kyle discusses the news item "New York legislature votes to halt facial recognition tech in schools for two years." Last but not least, Lan brings the paper this week! She discusses the paper "A deep learning approach for staging embryonic tissue isolates with small data."

34 min
08/09/2020

Gradio, Psychology in AI, and Automatic Test Scoring

Back again with our regular panelists! Today Lan brings us a article she found from Reddit about Gradio. George brings us a post about the psychology techniques used in AI. Last but not least, Kyle brings our paper this week about automatic essay test scoring!

33 min
07/29/2020

Robotic Skin, Social Isolation, and Reinforcement Learning

Back again with another episode with our regular panelists! This week Kyle discusses the article from The Scientist "How Social Isolation Affects the Brain." Lan brings us an article titled "National University of Singapore used Intel Neuromorphic chip to develop touch-sensing robotic 'skin.'" Last but not least, George brings us the paper this week! He talks about Reinforcement Learning, bringing the paper "One Policy to Control Them All: Shared Modular Policies for Agent-Agnostic Control." All works are linked in the show notes.

35 min
07/21/2020

Lottery Tickets, Forecasting COVID-19, and NetHack

Back again with our regular panelists! George takes us on a discussion about the game NetHack from the blog post "The NetHack Learning Environment." Kyle brings us an article titled "Where the Latest COVID-19 Models Think We're Headed - And Why They Disagree." Last but not least, Lan brings us the paper this week! She brings us the paper "Deconstructing Lottery Tickets: Zeros, Signs, and the Supermask." All works are linked in the show notes.

34 min

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Welcome to a brand new show from Data Skeptic entitled "Journal Club". Each episode will feature a regular panel and one revolving guest seat. The group will discuss a few topics related to data science and focus on one featured scholarly paper which is discussed in detail.

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