InfoQ Homepage Podcasts
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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.
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John Langford on Vowpal Wabbit, Used by MSN, and Machine Learning in Industry
Machine learning research scientist John Langford talks to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about his ML system Vowpal Wabbit used for news personalisation on MSN. They also discuss how to get started in the field and its shift from academic research to industry use.
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Caitie McCaffrey on Engineering Effectiveness and Verifying Distributed Systems
Caitie McCaffrey talks about engineering effectiveness, approaching diversity, and verification of distributed systems at QCon New York 2016.
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Wendy Closson on Mindfulness and Algorithmic Approaches to Communicating
In this week's podcast, Barry Burd talks with Wendy Closson. With over a decade of experience immersed in development and championing agile practices, Closson coaches technology leaders to manage effectively, respond reasonably, and navigate the choppy waters of business. Closson's presentation at QCon New York was entitled Syntactic Sugar for English: Pragmatic Eloquence.
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Courtney Hemphill on VR, Augmented Reality, and the Importance of Animation in UX
In this week's podcast, Barry Bird talks to Courtney Hemphill, a partner and tech lead at Carbon Five. With over ten years of experience in software development, Hemphill has done full stack development for both startup and enterprise companies. Hemphill's presentation at QCon New York was entitled Algorithms for Animation.
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Michael Cote from Pivotal on Programming the Business
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Cote from Pivotal Labs about “programming the business” to enable support for automation and moving towards DevOps
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Dan Kreigh on Building SpaceShipOne and Designing Flying Cars
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dan Kreigh about his experiences as the lead structural analyst working on SpaceShipOne and his personal interest in designing and building a flying car.
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Jeff Dalton on Teaching Leaders How to Teach
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Dalton about the challenges of agile adoption in large organisations and the need to teach agile leaders how to teach so they can lead the cultural shift that is needed.
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Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on Engineering a Good Engineering Culture
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on the way she and her cofounder have deliberately engineered their organisation’s culture
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Matt Abrahams of BoldEcho on Becoming Effective Communicators
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Matt Abrahams of BoldEcho and Stanford Graduate School of Business on becoming effective communicators, especially around speaking in public.