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Explaining AI explainability (Practical AI #91) Jun 08, 2020

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The CEO of Darwin AI, Sheldon Fernandez, joins Daniel to discuss generative synthesis and its connection to explainability. You might have heard of AutoML and meta-learning. Well, generative synthesis tackles similar problems from a different angle and results in compact, explainable networks. This episode is fascinating and very timely.

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Featuring:

Sheldon Fernandez – Twitter, LinkedIn
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Darwin AI
FermiNets - a paper that introduces the idea of generative synthesis.
COVID-Net - Darwin AI’s COVID-related computer vision model.
NLP highlights podcast episode on Behavioral Testing - behavioral tests
Sheldon’s explainability primer on medium

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JS Danger: HalfStack Edition (JS Party #129) May 29, 2020

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JS Danger is back! Suz, Emma, and Divya square off in our don’t-call-it-jeopardy game show. Will Emma totally redeem herself? Are Divya’s trivia skills as on point as her debate skills? Will Suz murder Jerod in a fit of terrible-question-inducing rage?! Listen and play along!

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Watch the raw/uncut video on our YouTube channel.
Support Stefan Kleim and JS.org on PayPal.

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The power of story (Brain Science #21) May 28, 2020

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Researchers have examined the power of story and discovered the way in which stories provide a framework that has the capacity to transcend language for universal understanding. According to Joe Lazauskas, “Stories illuminate the city of our mind…stories make us remember and they make us care.” In this episode we dive deep into the power of story to explore the ways in which stories play a role in our emotions and in our relationships with others.

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Featuring:

Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Stories are designed to take you on a journey; a journey you’re more likely to remember and relate with as you are apt to examine ways in which you can see yourself in the story. While our biases can interfere with our understanding of others, stories have the power to circumvent the challenges these pose and allows the opportunity for changes in our attitudes and henceforth our responses. When we’re able to see ourselves in others’ stories, we make others more relatable, and therefore easier to live with and work alongside.

Listen to Adam’s backstory
Me Before You (2016) (this is the movie Adam couldn’t remember)
The Neuroscience of Storytelling (CCO Podcast)
How Stories Change the Brain
Something universal occurs in the brain when it processes stories, regardless of language
How Narratives Can Improve Intergroup Attitudes
The mind’s mirror - A new type of neuron–called a mirror neuron–could help explain how we learn through mimicry and why we empathize with others.
What’s So Special about Mirror Neurons?

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The trouble with databases (Go Time #132) May 28, 2020

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Databases are tricky, especially at scale. In this episode Mat, Jaana, and Jon discuss different types of databases, the pros and cons of each, along with the many ways developers can have issues with databases. They also explore questions like, “Why are serial IDs problematic?” and “What alternatives are there if we aren’t using serial IDs?” while at it.

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Featuring:

Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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De-Google-ing your website analytics (Changelog Interviews #396) May 27, 2020

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Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it’s open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.

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Uku Täht – Twitter, GitHub
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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Plausible - a lightweight, open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics
Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website
How one blog post changed the traction for my startup
Will removing Google Analytics from a site hurt search engine rankings?
Blogging statistics and trends you should know in 2020
How to de-Google-ify your site to make it faster and visitor friendly

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Exploring NVIDIA's Ampere & the A100 GPU (Practical AI #90) May 26, 2020

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On the heels of NVIDIA’s latest announcements, Daniel and Chris explore how the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture evolves the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape for artificial intelligence. After investigating the new specifications of the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU, Chris and Daniel turn their attention to the data center with the NVIDIA DGX A100, and then finish their journey at “the edge” with the NVIDIA EGX A100 and the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Learning Resources

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We hear Dojo 7 is "better than React" (JS Party #128) May 22, 2020

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Nick and Jerod welcome Dojo’s Matt Gadd to the show to catch us up on what’s changed with the framework since episode #25, what’s coming in version 7, and to defend Nick’s comment that if you like React you just might like Dojo better.

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Matt Gadd – Twitter, GitHub
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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What's your backstory Adam? (Backstage #11) May 22, 2020

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We’re bringing Brain Science backstage — Mireille puts on her interviewer hat for a deep dive into Adam’s backstory. When and how did he get involved with podcasting? How did he get in to software development? When did he get his first shot at leadership? How did he learn about sales? Why is he so curious?

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Featuring:

Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

The Web 2.0 Show
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen
Take Charge Product Management: Take Charge of Your Product Management Development by Greg Geracie
Herding Tigers: Business, Software and the Art of War by Danny Blitz

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On community and safety (Go Time #131) May 21, 2020

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Johnny and Jon are joined by Denise to talk about her role at GitHub and what the community and safety team does to help open source project creators and contributors, GoCon Canada and the role of organizing a conference, and more.

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Featuring:

Denise Yu – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Concourse CI - CI tool that Denise mentioned working on.
Ginkgo - BDD testing library mentioned in the show
Testify - Go testing library mentioned in the show
cmp - Go comparison library mentioned in the show.
Let’s Sketch Tech - Workshops Denise is involved in for learning to sketch technical subjects.

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Navigating perfectionism (Brain Science #20) May 20, 2020

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High expectations for performance in both life and work are common, but what do you do when you get stuck and you’re not able to achieve the results you desire? In this episode, Mireille and Adam talk through the different aspects of perfectionism and ways in which is can be adaptive and helpful and other ways in which it poses additional challenges. What happens when we avoid the possibility of failure as opposed to simply having high standards for our performance? How can we begin to focus on healthy striving as opposed to reaching for perfection?

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