In this episode of A4N, I have a special announcement! While the A4N podcast will be going on indefinite hiatus, it is because I am now hosting the SuperDataScience Podcast. If you enjoyed A4N then you're sure to enjoy the SuperDataScience podcast, which publishes twice every week on Tuesdays and Fridays!
You can check it out here.
In this episode of A4N, Dr. Rasmus Rothe joins us to discuss Merantix, the world’s first AI Venture Studio, which he co-founded in 2016. We discuss how Merantix companies are shaping the future by applying machine learning to automating cancer detection, training self-driving cars, and more!
Dr. Rasmus Rothe is a German native, and co-founder of Merantix, the world’s first AI-focused venture studio. Merantix has already launched three successful AI-driven companies with three more operating in stealth, and raised an additional EUR 25 MM in 2020 to continue to apply world-class AI research to solving practical issues. Rasmus published 15+ papers on deep learning while attending Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zurich, where he received his Ph.D. in computer vision and deep learning. Before founding Merantix, Rasmus worked for BCG, Google, and built a deep learning service with 150m+ users. He is also a founding board member of the German AI Association.
Full transcript of the episode is here.
Reference links:
2:28 Merantix
5:27 Deep Learning Illustrated
14:35 Merantix raised 25m euros
20:00 Vara Healthcare
20:10 Vara raised 6.5m euros ($7m) in Series A venture capital
31:41 Siasearch
38:50 Dr. Alex Flint's start-up, Zippy, was acquired by General Motors' self-driving car unit in 2018
41:30 German A.I. Association
46:20 Dr. Rasmus Rothe's LinkedIn
46:28 Rasmus on Twitter
47:15 Jon Krohn on LinkedIn
47:40 Jon Krohn's email newsletter signup on his homepage
48:00 Jon on Twitter
In this episode of our A4N podcast, our guest host Kirill Eremenko joins us to discuss SuperDataScience, his thriving data-science education business, and Vince introduces us to machine learning projects being applied to understand -- and preserve -- marine life in the oceans.
Our special guest today is Kirill Eremenko. Kirill is Russian-born Australian, and Founder and CEO of SuperDataScience, an online educational portal for Data Scientists. Their mission is to “Make The Complex Simple,” and become the biggest learning portal for Data Science enthusiasts. Ever. He is also the Co-Founder of BlueLifeAI, Founder of the DataScienceGo conference, and hosts his own podcast, the SuperDataScience Podcast!
Full transcript of the episode is here.
Part I: Scaling a Global Data Business with Kirill Eremenko
4:25 OmniFocus
4:36 SuperDataScience
5:25 Udemy
8:05 Deep Work
8:20 The Great CEO Within
9:20 Peter Akkies: Get Stuff Done with OmniFocus 3
17:57 DataScienceGO Virtual
22:10 Fake Ad for “TPML”
Part 2: 23:00 Saving the Oceans with Machine Learning
24:30 A.I. Is Helping Scientists Understand an Ocean’s Worth of Data
30:18 Some like it hot - visual guidance for preference prediction
31:15 Merantix
32:10 Wirewax
33:05 Scale
36:00 VGGish
39:57 University of San Diego’s FRED
41:18 Jon Krohn’s LinkedIn
41:23 Kirill Eremenko’s LinkedIn
41:23 Vince Petaccio II’s LinkedIn
41:28 Twitter @JonKrohnLearns
41:49 jon@jonkrohn.com
41:52 email newsletter at jonkrohn.com
For our second episode of A4N — the Artificial Neural Network News Network podcast — our resident virologist Dr. Grant Beyleveld fills us in on how anyone can contribute to the cure for the coronavirus pandemic. We also discuss mind-controlled prosthetic limbs and what it takes to succeed as an AI start-up.
Our special guest for the episode is Ben Taylor. Ben is the Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer of zeff.ai, an AI product company, and former Chief Data Scientist at HireVue. He is a prolific thinker and innovator, and we’re thrilled to have him as a guest on A4N!
A complete transcript of the episode is available here.
Segment 1 on Tackling Coronaviruses with Machine Learning
Led by Dr. Grant Beyleveld, our resident virologist
1:12 Ben Taylor, Hirevue
4:41 Die Antwoord
5:39 Maryam Khakpour LinkedIn post, Yuval Noah Harari’s book Homo Deus
12:05 CORD-19
16:33 First episode of A4N podcast
17:00 Kaggle Covid-19-related tasks
20:44 Folding@home
Segment 2 on Mind Controlled Prosthetics 36:39
Led by Vince Petaccio II
37:45 Reference blog post from University of Michigan
47:41 Gabe Adams: Twitter account and YouTube video
54:27 Norman Doidge book The Brain That Changes Itself
Segment 3 on AI Startups 57:00
Led by Andrew Vlahutin
57:20 Reference blog post from Andreesen Horowitz
Jon Krohn / A4N YouTube channel
Jon Krohn website for signing up to email newsletter
For our inaugural episode of A4N — the "Artificial Neural Network News Network", a lighthearted podcast covering A.I. advances — we discuss:
Global headline news: Real-time face recognition by London police
“Sports”: Cheating in the famed Kaggle data-science competition
Health: The landmark AlphaFold model for predicting protein structure from DNA
Classifieds: How to become (or at least hire!) an A.I. researcher
Details of each segment, including timestamps for any references mentioned, have been published on Medium.
In addition, a raw video feed of the podcast is available on YouTube.
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