Podcasts

Emmanuel Ameisen, Head of AI at Insight, on Building a Semantic Search System for Images

On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Emmanuel Ameisen, head of AI for Insight Data Science, about building a semantic search system for images using convolution neural networks and word embeddings, how you can build on the work done by companies like Google, and then explores where the gaps are and where you need to train your own models.

Eric Horesnyi on High Frequency Trading and How Hedge Funds are Applying Deep Learning to Markets

Eric Horesnyi, CEO @streamdata.io, talks to Charles Humble about how hedge funds are applying deep learning as an alternative to the raw speed favoured by High Frequency Trading to try and curve the market.

Cathy O'Neil on Pernicious Machine Learning Algorithms and How to Audit Them

In this week's podcast InfoQ’s editor-in-chief Charles Humble talks to Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil.  Topics discussed include her book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” predictive policing models, the teacher value added model, approaches to auditing algorithms and whether government regulation of the field is needed.