Data Science at Home Podcast
1) AGI: The Dream We Should Never Reach (Ep. 296)
Also on YouTube Two AI experts who actually love the technology explain why chasing AGI might be the worst thing for AI's future—and why the current hype cycle could kill the field we're trying to s...Show More
2) When Data Stops Being Code and Starts Being Conversation (Ep. 297)
Mark Brocato built Mockaroo—the tool that taught millions of developers how to fake data. Now, as Head of Engineering at Tonic.ai, he's building the AI agent that's making his own creation obsolete. I...Show More
3) Your AI Strategy is Burning Money: Here's How to Fix It (Ep.295)
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a decision-making problem. Matt Lea, founder of Schematical and CloudWarGames, has spent nearly 20 years helping tech leaders ship smarter. In this c...Show More
4) From Tokens to Vectors: The Efficiency Hack That Could Save AI (Ep. 294)
LLMs generate text painfully slow, one low-info token at a time. Researchers just figured out how to compress 4 tokens into smart vectors & cut costs by 44%—with full code & proofs! Meanwhile OpenAI d...Show More
5) Why AI Researchers Are Suddenly Obsessed With Whirlpools (Ep. 293)
VortexNet uses actual whirlpools to build neural networks. Seriously. By borrowing equations from fluid dynamics, this new architecture might solve deep learning's toughest problems—from vanishing gra...Show More
6) The Scientists Growing Living Computers in Swiss Labs (Ep. 292)
Fred Jordan, Co-CEO of FinalSpark, takes us inside the radical world of biological computing, where real neurons extracted from human tissue are being trained to solve problems that would require 10 m...Show More
7) When AI Hears Thunder But Misses the Fear (Ep. 291)
Sanjoy Chowdhury reveals AI's hidden weakness: while systems can see objects and hear sounds perfectly, they can't reason across senses like humans do. His research at University of Maryland College P...Show More
8) Why VCs Are Funding $100M Remote Control Toys (Ep. 290)
This episode exposes the uncomfortable truth: most defense tech startups are just software engineers cosplaying as military innovators, creating fragmented solutions that Pentagon doesn't need. Not no...Show More
9) How Hacker Culture Died (Ep. 289)
A nostalgic dive into the rise and fall of true hacker culture - from MIT's curious tinkerers to today's hustle-obsessed "founders." Plus, why IRC was peak internet and what we lost when convenience k...Show More
10) Robots Suck (But It’s Not Their Fault) (Ep. 288)
We were promised robot butlers and got Roombas that cry under the couch. In this brutally honest (and slightly hilarious) episode, Francesco dives into why the robot revolution fizzled, why your dishw...Show More