Dan Burcaw on Entrepreneurship, Using AI to Stop Customer Churn, and Deploying Code onto Nuclear Submarines

In this episode, Frank and Andy speak with Dan Burcaw on Entrepreneurship, Using AI to Stop Customer Churn, and Deploying Code onto Nuclear Submarines.Show NotesTranscriptThe following transcript is AI generated.00:00:00 BAILeYHello and welcome to data driven.00:00:02 BAILeYThe podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.00:00:09 BAILeYIn this episode, Frank and Andy speak with Dan Burke or Dan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded four companies each on the forefront of a major technology wave, open source software, the smartphone.00:00:23 BAILeYCloud computing and now machine learning.00:00:26 BAILeYCurrently he leads Nam Eml, a company focused on helping app developers start and grow mobile subscription businesses.00:00:34 BAILeYIf you follow Frank and or Andy on social media, you certainly have heard them bang on about their secret project.00:00:41 BAILeYI will drop a one word hint here foreshadowing.00:00:45 BAILeYNow on with the show.00:00:48 FrankHello and welcome back to data driven.00:00:50 FrankThe podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science machine learning, an artificial intelligence, and if you like to think of data as the new oil, then you could consider us Car Talk.00:01:02 FrankBecause we focus on where the rubber hits the road.00:01:05 FrankSo with that as my guest on this pandemic road trip, that hasn't happened.00:01:13Yeah.00:01:13 FrankBy my copilot here is Andy Leonard.00:01:16 FrankHow you doing Andy?00:01:17 AndyHey, I'm doing pretty good Frank how are you?00:01:20 FrankI'm doing well, I'm doing well.00:01:21 FrankI had a kind of an architecture session this morning, so that went really well.00:01:27 FrankIt was.00:01:28 FrankIt was an interesting conversation and I love doing those.00:01:31 FrankThose are always fun.00:01:32 FrankHow about?00:01:32 AndyYeah.00:01:33 AndyYeah, so I'm proofing the next book.00:01:36 AndyProofing is the absolute last chance to remove all of the typos I've left in.00:01:42 AndyAs I've gone through the last three full edit sessions and there's still some there.00:01:47 AndyFrank, I'm convinced that the next book is going to have, you know, have a fair share of those.00:01:52 AndyWhat I'm really concerned about.00:01:54 AndyIs making sure that the demos work an yeah that's you know it's it's tedious and it's the LastPass so you know it's like is this over yet? Yeah, I'm sick and tired of reading this guy's writing and it's me so.00:02:10 AndyYeah no.00:02:10 AndyBut yeah.00:02:12 FrankThat was the hardest part.00:02:13 FrankPeople asking.00:02:14 FrankLike when I wrote a book on Silverlight an aside from it being about Silverlight, the hardest thing wasn't so much writing, it was having to go back and re edit my own stuff and like.00:02:24 FrankYou know, and I would look at it and be like man like I'm a terrible or.00:02:28 AndyThat's I have said over and over again to my computer monitor who wrote this crap.00:02:33 AndyBy a friend if you live.00:02:33 AndyBut Fortunately for this is a second edition, so an it's one of those second editions where I kept the first 10 or 11 chapters.00:02:43 AndyI I changed from my writing language.00:02:46 AndyI wrote it like three years ago.00:02:48 AndyAnd I really this grew out of a series of blog posts that I wrote back in 2012. It was all in VB back...

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