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Data Skeptic

Kyle Polich

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The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.

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Episodes (607)

The QAnon Conspiracy

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Mar 22, 202143:54pending

Benchmarking Vision on Edge vs Cloud

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Mar 15, 202147:53pending

Goodhart's Law in Reinforcement Learning

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Mar 5, 202137:11pending

Video Anomaly Detection

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Mar 1, 202124:06pending

Fault Tolerant Distributed Gradient Descent

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Feb 22, 202136:06pending

Decentralized Information Gathering

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Feb 15, 202132:57pending

Leaderless Consensus

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Feb 5, 202127:25pending

Automatic Summarization

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Jan 29, 202127:57pending

Gerrymandering

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Jan 22, 202134:09pending

Even Cooperative Chess is Hard

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Jan 15, 202123:09pending

Consecutive Votes in Paxos

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Jan 11, 202130:11pending

Visual Illusions Deceiving Neural Networks

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Jan 1, 202133:43pending

Earthquake Detection with Crowd-sourced Data

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Dec 25, 202029:27pending

Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus

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Dec 22, 202035:33pending

Alpha Fold

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Dec 11, 202023:14pending

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

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Dec 4, 202026:19pending

Face Mask Sentiment Analysis

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Nov 27, 202041:11pending

Counting Briberies in Elections

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Nov 20, 202037:55pending

Sybil Attacks on Federated Learning

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Nov 13, 202031:32pending

Differential Privacy at the US Census

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Nov 6, 202029:43pending

Distributed Consensus

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Oct 30, 202027:44pending

ACID Compliance

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Oct 23, 202023:47pending

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

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Oct 16, 202030:36pending

Defending the p-value

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Oct 12, 202030:05pending

Retraction Watch

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Oct 5, 202032:04pending

Crowdsourced Expertise

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Sep 21, 202027:50pending

The Spread of Misinformation Online

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Sep 14, 202035:35pending

Consensus Voting

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Sep 7, 202022:57pending

Voting Mechanisms

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Aug 31, 202027:28pending

False Consensus

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Aug 24, 202033:06pending

Fraud Detection in Real Time

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Aug 18, 202038:24pending

Listener Survey Review

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Aug 11, 202023:12pending

Human Computer Interaction and Online Privacy

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Jul 27, 202032:38pending

Authorship Attribution of Lennon McCartney Songs

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Jul 20, 202033:10pending

GANs Can Be Interpretable

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Jul 11, 202026:39pending

Sentiment Preserving Fake Reviews

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Jul 6, 202028:39pending

Interpretability Practitioners

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Jun 26, 202032:07pending

Facial Recognition Auditing

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Jun 19, 202047:30pending

Robust Fit to Nature

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Jun 12, 202038:16pending

Black Boxes Are Not Required

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Jun 5, 202032:29pending

Robustness to Unforeseen Adversarial Attacks

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May 30, 202021:43pending

Estimating the Size of Language Acquisition

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May 22, 202025:06pending

Interpretable AI in Healthcare

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May 15, 202035:51pending

Understanding Neural Networks

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May 8, 202034:43pending

Self-Explaining AI

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May 2, 202032:03pending

Plastic Bag Bans

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Apr 24, 202034:51pending

Self Driving Cars and Pedestrians

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Apr 18, 202030:44pending

Computer Vision is Not Perfect

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Apr 10, 202026:08pending

Uncertainty Representations

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Apr 4, 202039:48pending

AlphaGo, COVID-19 Contact Tracing and New Data Set

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Mar 28, 202033:41pending
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