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AjithAntony
Is there an rss feed to subscribe to or is it only for iTunes?
azaras
They recommend the book "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" by Kevin P. Murphy.
jeffreyrogers
I've only read a few chapters from this, but I've heard it recommended highly by others as well.
ginolomelino
Sounds interesting. Couldn't find an RSS feed on your site. Where can I subscribe?
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eghri
Really great idea - I'll definitely be listening.
AndrewKemendo
Can someone explain to me why they call out being a "nerd"?

...we meet our hosts, Katherine Gorman (nerd, journalist) and Ryan Adam (nerd, Harvard computer science professor)...

Seems a bit misplaced.

Also, Yoshua gave a great, albeit slightly controversial for the crowd, talk at AGI 14 in Quebec this summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24

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Because non-nerds now call themselves nerds as "nerd" is associated with having domain expertise in a giving subject i.e CS. In their views what we "do" is nerdy so we are by definition nerds too.
Houshalter
Good talk, but how was that controversial?
AndrewKemendo
Not conventionally so, I think some of the AGI people think his un-supervised/supervised training thoughts do not lend themselves towards AGI/Strong AI.
[dead] Smartersynchro
I think this is very useful for average people to understand more about how machines work. Sometimes scientist tend to talk in machine language themselves which is difficult for an average person to understand. I think this is a great avenue to get more information about industry news and whatnot.