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How to Build Data and ML Products Users Love

Added on March 3, 2023 by Jon Krohn.

What makes people latch onto data products and come back for more? In today's episode, Brian T. O'Neill unveils the processes and teams that make data and A.I. products engaging and sticky for users.

Brian:
• Founded and runs Designing for Analytics, a consultancy that specializes in designing analytics and ML products so that they are adopted.
• Hosts the "Experiencing Data" podcast, an entertaining show that covers how to use product-development methodologies and UX design to drive meaningful user and business outcomes with data.

In today's episode, Brian details:
• What data product management is.
• Why so many data projects fail.
• How to develop machine learning-powered products that users love.
• The teams and skill sets required to develop successful data products.

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

A.I. Talent and the Red-Hot A.I. Skills

Added on February 24, 2023 by Jon Krohn.

What skills and traits do the best A.I. talent have? And how do you attract the best A.I. talent to your firm? Jaclyn Rice Nelson of Tribe AI, the world's most prestigious ML collective, fills us in in today's episode.

Jaclyn:
• Is Co-Founder/CEO of Tribe A.I., a "collective" of ML engineers and data scientists that drop into companies to accelerate their A.I. capabilities.
• Previously worked in senior roles at Google and CapitalG, Alphabet's growth equity fund.

In today's episode, she details:
• What characterizes the very best A.I. talent.
• What skills you should learn today to be tomorrow’s top A.I. talent.
• How to attract the top engineers and data scientists to your firm.
• The specific category of A.I. project that her clients are suddenly demanding tons of help with.

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

SparseGPT: Remove 100 Billion Parameters but Retain 100% Accuracy

Added on February 3, 2023 by Jon Krohn.

Today’s episode isn’t specifically about GPT-3, however. It’s about the issue of how massive these large language models are and how we can prune these models to compress them.

A Framework for Big Life Decisions

Added on January 13, 2023 by Jon Krohn.

The biggest decisions we make involve trade-offs between professional opportunity (money) and our personal life (love). Today, Stanford labor economist Prof. Myra Strober provides a framework for making a big choice.

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

The Critical Human Element of Successful A.I. Deployments

Added on November 18, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

For today's episode, I sat down with the prolific data-science instructor, author and practitioner Keith McCormick to discuss how critical user considerations are for developing a successful A.I. application.

The SuperDataScience podcast is available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

Burnout: Causes and Solutions

Added on October 28, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

What really is Burnout? What causes it? And how can you prevent or treat it? Prof. Christina Maslach — world-leading researcher and author on Burnout — joins me for today's episode to unpack these questions.

The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

OpenAI Whisper: General-Purpose Speech Recognition

Added on October 21, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

One of the challenges holding machines back from approaching human-level speech recognition like Whisper has has been acquiring sufficiently large amounts of high-quality, labeled training data. “Labeled” in this case means audio of speech that has a corresponding text associated with it. With enough of these labeled data, a machine learning model can learn to take in speech audio as an input and then output the correct corresponding text.

The Joy of Atelic Activities

Added on October 14, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

You might think to yourself “I could be spending this time productively!” But pushing past these inner calls for productivity and leaning into the initial discomfort of atelic activities is likely to be rewarding. When you’re consumed by telic activities, by always pursuing outcomes, you’re missing out on being, on appreciating being alive for the fleeting moments that you have.

More Guests on Fridays

Added on September 23, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

Going forward, we are still going to have short, five-minute-ish episodes on Friday that feature me solo, but we will increasingly be interspersing in inspiring guests. And I won’t be making an effort to have these Friday guest episodes be anywhere near five minutes long — to start, I’m thinking of having them typically be 20 to 30 minutes long, but we’ll see how it goes with the guests and what the reception is like from you.

Who Dares Wins

Added on September 16, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

Even if we don’t achieve what we originally set out to achieve, by having dared to achieve it, by having taken action in the direction of the achievement, we learn from the experience and we gain invaluable information about ourselves and the world. Having dared, we find ourselves at a new, enriched vantage point that we otherwise would never have ventured to. From there, whether we achieved the original goal or not, we can iterate — dare again — perhaps to achieve success at the original objective or perhaps we identify some entirely new objective that would have otherwise been inconceivable without having dared.

Daily Habit #11: Assigning Deliverables

Added on September 9, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

To ensure that deliverables are assigned, if you’re running the meeting you can formally set the final meeting agenda item to be something like “assign deliverables”. If you’re not running the meeting, you can suggest having this final agenda item to the meeting organizer at the meeting’s outset or even as the meeting begins to wrap up. By assigning deliverables in this way, we not only make the best use of everyone’s time going forward, but we also maximize the probability that all of the essential action items are actually delivered upon.

We Are Living in Ancient Times

Added on August 19, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

This article was originally adapted from a podcast, which you can check out here.

James Clear recently drew my attention to a quote by the writer Teresa Nielsen Hayden that I find fascinating and mind-boggling… and that I also vehemently agree with:

“My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world. We are hardly more than an eye blink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters. We live in extremely interesting ancient times.”

Yoga Nidra Practice

Added on August 12, 2022 by Jon Krohn.

Rest and relaxation await as Steve Fazzari joins us this week for a special edition of the podcast! Tune in for a rejuvenating session of Yoga Nidra led beautifully by the expert.

The SuperDataScience show's available on all major podcasting platforms, YouTube, and at SuperDataScience.com.

Filtering by Category: Five-Minute Friday

How to Build Data and ML Products Users Love

A.I. Talent and the Red-Hot A.I. Skills

A.I. Speech for the Speechless

SparseGPT: Remove 100 Billion Parameters but Retain 100% Accuracy

A Framework for Big Life Decisions

What I Learned in 2022

The Equality Machine

Liquid Neural Networks

Resilient Machine Learning

The Critical Human Element of Successful A.I. Deployments

Subword Tokenization with Byte-Pair Encoding

Imagen Video: Incredible Text-to-Video Generation

Burnout: Causes and Solutions

OpenAI Whisper: General-Purpose Speech Recognition

The Joy of Atelic Activities

More Guests on Fridays

Who Dares Wins

Daily Habit #11: Assigning Deliverables

We Are Living in Ancient Times

Yoga Nidra Practice