Épisodes

  • Book review: The Information
    Aug 20 2023

    The Information

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    18 min
  • Book review: The Theory That Would Not Die
    Jul 30 2023

    Publisher's link for The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

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    15 min
  • Book reviews introduction
    Jul 23 2023

    Nick introduces a new episode type that may end up dominating the feed, at least for the near future.

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    13 min
  • S6E11: Are we living in a simulation?
    Jul 2 2023

    We wrap the season with a recap of what we've covered and my thoughts about how these ideas are related to a very general way of analyzing data.

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    13 min
  • S6E10: Betting with (in)side information
    Jun 25 2023

    We discuss connections between betting and information theory and how this framework for thinking about how being able to accurately estimate probabilities might apply more generally to decisions that we make.

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    13 min
  • S6E9: Information theory
    Jun 18 2023

    We discuss basic concepts of information theory as well as some examples of communication processes and compression techniques. The sources for this episode are the following books:

    https://www.amazon.com/Information-Theory-Tutorial-Introduction-2nd-dp-1739672704/dp/1739672704/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

    https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Theory-Symbols-Mathematics/dp/0486240614/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1687105608&sr=1-1

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    20 min
  • S6E8: Causal inference
    Jun 11 2023

    I discuss the work of Judea Pearl and how it fits in with the other topics we've discussed this season. We get to vilify, yet again, our old friend Ronald Fisher.

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    19 min
  • S6E7: Machine learning
    Jun 4 2023

    We compare machine learning to traditional programming and talk about some of the core challenges associated with doing machine learning.

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    17 min