Holy crap, it's here! Joshua Starmer, the creative genius behind the StatQuest YouTube channel (over 675k subscribers!) joins me for an epic episode on stats, ML, and his learning and communication secrets.
Dr. Starmer:
• Provides uniquely clear statistics and ML education via his StatQuest You Tube channel.
• Is Lead A.I. Educator at Grid.ai, a company founded by the creators of PyTorch Lightning that enables you to take an ML model you have on your laptop and train it seamlessly on the cloud.
• Was a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 13 years, first as a postdoc and then as an assistant professor, applying statistics to genetic data.
• Holds a PhD in Biomathematics and Computational Biology.
• Holds two bachelor degrees, one in Computer Science and another in Music.
In this episode filled with silliness and laughs from start to finish, Josh fills us in on:
• His learning and communication secrets.
• The single tool he uses to create YouTube videos with over a million views.
• The software languages he uses daily as a data scientist.
• His forthcoming book, "The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning".
• Why he left his academic career.
• A question you might want to ask yourself to check in on whether you’re following the right life path yourself.
Today’s epic episode is largely high level and so will appeal to anyone who likes to giggle while hearing from one of the most intelligent and creative minds in education on data science, machine learning, music, genetics, and the intersection of all of the above.
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Thanks to Serg, Nikolay, Phil, Jonas, and Suddhasatwa for great audience questions!