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Vanishing Gradients — 86 episodes

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The Science and Engineering of Agent Work

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The State of Agentic Data Science

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How to Build a Coding Agent with Nico (Amp Code)

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The Rise of the AI Scientist

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If Developers Build on Chinese Open-Weight Models, Who Leads AI?

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Four Months Inside a Production AI Agent: What Real Users Changed

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Building an Enterprise AI Agent for Healthcare

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What Claude Fable Means for Coding Agents

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The Future of Agentic Data Science

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Agent-Harness.ipynb*

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Agentic Engineering and the Lost Art of Verification

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Next Level AI Evals for 2026

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Privacy Theater Is Not Privacy Engineering: What It Actually Takes to Ship Safe AI

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LLM Architecture in 2026: What You Need to Know with Sebastian Raschka

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Episode 72: Why Agents Solve the Wrong Problem (and What Data Scientists Do Instead)

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Episode 71: Durable Agents - How to Build AI Systems That Survive a Crash with Samuel Colvin

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Episode 70: 1,400 Production AI Deployments

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Episode 69: Python is Dead. Long Live Python! With the Creators of pandas & Parquet

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Episode 68: A Builder’s Guide to Agentic Search & Retrieval with Doug Turnbull & John Berryman

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Episode 67: Saving Hundreds of Hours of Dev Time with AI Agents That Learn

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Episode 66: The Agent Paradox - Why Moderna's Most Productive AI Systems Aren't Agents

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Episode 65: The Rise of Agentic Search

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Episode 64: Data Science Meets Agentic AI with Michael Kennedy (Talk Python)

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Episode 63: Why Gemini 3 Will Change How You Build AI Agents with Ravin Kumar (Google DeepMind)

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Episode 62: Practical AI at Work: How Execs and Developers Can Actually Use LLMs

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Episode 61: The AI Agent Reliability Cliff: What Happens When Tools Fail in Production

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Episode 60: 10 Things I Hate About AI Evals with Hamel Husain

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Episode 59: Patterns and Anti-Patterns For Building with AI

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Episode 58: Building GenAI Systems That Make Business Decisions with Thomas Wiecki (PyMC Labs)

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Episode 57: AI Agents and LLM Judges at Scale: Processing Millions of Documents (Without Breaking the Bank)

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Episode 56: DeepMind Just Dropped Gemma 270M... And Here’s Why It Matters

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Episode 55: From Frittatas to Production LLMs: Breakfast at SciPy

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Episode 54: Scaling AI: From Colab to Clusters — A Practitioner’s Guide to Distributed Training and Inference

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Episode 53: Human-Seeded Evals & Self-Tuning Agents: Samuel Colvin on Shipping Reliable LLMs

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Episode 52: Why Most LLM Products Break at Retrieval (And How to Fix Them)

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Episode 51: Why We Built an MCP Server and What Broke First

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Episode 50: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products -- With Hamel Husain

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Episode 49: Why Data and AI Still Break at Scale (and What to Do About It)

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Episode 48: How to Benchmark AGI with Greg Kamradt (ARC-AGI)

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Episode 47: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch of Code Slop with Joe Reis

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Episode 46: Software Composition Is the New Vibe Coding

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Episode 45: Your AI application is broken. Here’s what to do about it.

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Episode 44: The Future of AI Coding Assistants: Who’s Really in Control?

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Episode 43: Tales from 400+ LLM Deployments: Building Reliable AI Agents in Production

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Episode 42: Learning, Teaching, and Building in the Age of AI

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Episode 41: Beyond Prompt Engineering: Can AI Learn to Set Its Own Goals?

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Episode 40: What Every LLM Developer Needs to Know About GPUs

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Episode 39: From Models to Products: Bridging Research and Practice in Generative AI at Google Labs

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Episode 38: The Art of Freelance AI Consulting and Products: Data, Dollars, and Deliverables

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Episode 37: Prompt Engineering, Security in Generative AI, and the Future of AI Research Part 2

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Episode 36: Prompt Engineering, Security in Generative AI, and the Future of AI Research Part 1

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Episode 35: Open Science at NASA -- Measuring Impact and the Future of AI

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Episode 34: The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized

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Episode 33: What We Learned Teaching LLMs to 1,000s of Data Scientists

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Episode 32: Building Reliable and Robust ML/AI Pipelines

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Episode 31: Rethinking Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI

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Episode 30: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 2)

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Episode 29: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 1)

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Episode 28: Beyond Supervised Learning: The Rise of In-Context Learning with LLMs

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Episode 27: How to Build Terrible AI Systems

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Episode 26: Developing and Training LLMs From Scratch

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Episode 25: Fully Reproducible ML & AI Workflows

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Episode 24: LLM and GenAI Accessibility

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Episode 23: Statistical and Algorithmic Thinking in the AI Age

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Episode 22: LLMs, OpenAI, and the Existential Crisis for Machine Learning Engineering

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Episode 21: Deploying LLMs in Production: Lessons Learned

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Episode 20: Data Science: Past, Present, and Future

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Episode 19: Privacy and Security in Data Science and Machine Learning

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Episode 18: Research Data Science in Biotech

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Episode 17: End-to-End Data Science

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Episode 16: Data Science and Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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Episode 15: Uncertainty, Risk, and Simulation in Data Science

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Episode 14: Decision Science, MLOps, and Machine Learning Everywhere

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Episode 13: The Data Science Skills Gap, Economics, and Public Health

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Episode 12: Data Science for Social Media: Twitter and Reddit

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Episode 11: Data Science: The Great Stagnation

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Episode 10: Investing in Machine Learning

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9: AutoML, Literate Programming, and Data Tooling Cargo Cults

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Episode 8: The Open Source Cybernetic Revolution

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Episode 7: The Evolution of Python for Data Science

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Episode 6: Bullshit Jobs in Data Science (and what to do about them)

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Episode 5: Executive Data Science

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Episode 4: Machine Learning at T-Mobile

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Episode 3: Language Tech For All

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Episode 2: Making Data Science Uncool Again

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Episode 1: Introducing Vanishing Gradients