June 23, 2019

Episode 65: AI knows biology. Or does it?

The successes of deep learning for text analytics, also introduced in a recent post about sentiment analysis and published here are undeniable. Many other tasks in NLP have also benefitted from the superiority of deep learning methods over more tradition...
June 14, 2019

Episode 64: Get the best shot at NLP sentiment analysis

The rapid diffusion of social media like Facebook and Twitter, and the massive use of different types of forums like Reddit, Quora, etc., is producing an impressive amount of text data every day.  There is one specific activity that many business owners ...
June 4, 2019

Episode 63: Financial time series and machine learning

In this episode I speak to Alexandr Honchar, data scientist and owner of blog https://medium.com/@alexrachnogAlexandr has written very interesting posts about time series analysis for financial data. His blog is in my personal list of best tutorial blogs...
May 28, 2019

Episode 62: AI and the future of banking with Chris Skinner

In this episode I have a wonderful conversation with Chris Skinner. Chris and I recently got in touch at The banking scene 2019, fintech conference recently held in Brussels. During that conference he talked as a real trouble maker - that’s how he define...
May 21, 2019

Episode 61: The 4 best use cases of entropy in machine learning

It all starts from physics. The entropy of an isolated system never decreases… Everyone at school, at some point of his life, learned this in his physics class. What does this have to do with machine learning? To find out, listen to the show.   Reference...
May 7, 2019

Episode 59: How to fool a smart camera with deep learning

In this episode I met three crazy researchers from KULeuven (Belgium) who found a method to fool surveillance cameras and stay hidden just by holding a special t-shirt. We discussed about the technique they used and some consequences of their findings. T...
April 30, 2019

Episode 58: There is physics in deep learning!

There is a connection between gradient descent based optimizers and the dynamics of damped harmonic oscillators. What does that mean? We now have a better theory for optimization algorithms.In this episode I explain how all this works. All the formulas I...