Adversarial Learning
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Adversarial Restarting
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a couple of years, so Joel and Andrew catch up on what's new in life and in data science.
Adversarial Distancing, Episode 4: Joel's Fizz Buzz Book
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It turns out Joel wrote another book: Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz (Quarantine does strange things to a person.) In this episode Andrew and Joel discuss ...
Adversarial Distancing, Episode 3: Two Conversations with Jowanza
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
About a month ago we recorded a podcast with Jowanza Joseph about engineering and COVID-19 and other mundane topics. While I (Joel) was procrastinat...
Adversarial Distancing - Episode 2
16 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joel and Andrew break quarantine (metaphorically) to discuss treehouses, remote work, distance schooling, outschool.com, Joel's attempt to teach his d...
Adversarial Distancing - Episode 1
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
in which Joel and Andrew briefly break quarantine to talk about Covid-19, social distancing, and the data science grift
Episode 21: The Cold Start Problem for Becoming a DJ
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Pardis Noorzad (@djpardis), former data science manager at Twitter and now Head of Data Science at Carbon Health. Our conversat...
Episode 20: Churn! Churn! Churn!
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this episode is Carl Gold (@carl24k), Chief Data Scientist at Zuora and author of the forthcoming book Fighting Churn with Data. Use the...
Episode 19: Writing the Same Book Twice
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Andrew is joined by Joel Grus (@joelgrus), the author of Data Science from Scratch, whose second edition just came out. They discus...
Episode 18: Never Insult a Pigeon Driving a Bus
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this episode is data scientist Peadar Coyle. Topics include Brexit whether Europe is a Python continent or an R continent GDPR how data sci...
Episode 17: Josh Wills
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adversarial Learning is back from its extended hiatus! Our guest is famous data scientist Josh Wills. We discuss why Josh is a famous data scient...
Episode 16: My Code of Ethics Will Forbid YAML
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adversarial Learning is back! In this long-delayed episode (thanks, technical difficulties) we are joined by data scientist Schaun Wheeler to discuss ...
Episode 15: Could You Rephrase That As An Ethical Question?
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is data scientist for good Lisa Green. Topics of discussion include What is ethics Joel's previous life as a financial analys...
Episode 14: Totally Derivative
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is flashcard kingpin and former Partially Derivative co-host Chris Albon. Topics of discussion include how good it feels not to h...
Episode 12: Data Science Myths
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Data scientist Vicki Boykis joins Joel and Andrew to variously debunk and rebunk common Data Science Myths. Is data the new oil? Do data scientists...
Episode 11: Data Conferences
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew and Joel come out of hiatus to discuss data conferences: when to attend them, how to get your talk accepted, how to network, optimal heckling ...
Episode 10: Stories of Degradation and Humiliation
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the podcast Tim Hopper joins us as we share stories of Very Bad Interviews we've been on. (As you probably expect, Joel has the most humilia...
Episode 9: Owning a Planet
20 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guests this week are Curtis Yarvin and Galen Wolfe-Pauly, which means that our topic is Urbit ("a virtual city of general-purpose personal serve...
Episode 8: On Flink
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Trevor Grant (@rawkintrevo), an Open Source Technology Developer Evangelist (or similar) at IBM. We discuss how to be a high-e...
Episode 7: Telling a Bot to Go Shove It
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Juliet Hougland (@j_houg), data scientist and engineer at Cloudera. We discuss that bad Wired article about physics and softwa...
Episode 6: Good Data Science Is Always Political
10 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is good data science always political? Our regularly scheduled guest had to cancel at the last minute, so Joel and Andrew decided to talk about poli...
Episode 5: The Legend of Plas Vander
13 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Jake VanderPlas, who is a real Data Science Fellow at the UW eScience Institute, and is the author of the recently published Python Data ...
Episode 4: Datasets We Hate
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Sarah Guido (@sarah_guido), Senior Data Scientist at Mashable. We discuss datasets we hate, how to pronounce "La Croix", what m...
Episode 3: Beantown Data Science
23 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Andrew Therriault (@therriaultphd). We talk about data science in the big city, politics, slime in the ice machine, labor union...
Episode Two: The Tallest Data Scientist
07 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Tim Hopper (@tdhopper), the tallest data scientist. We discuss life, blogs, robots, Twitter, and other data-related stuff, but ...
Episode One: A New Hope
11 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode, Joel and Andrew cover who they are, how they met, how they got into data science, why they have a podcast, and chat about topics...