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NPUs, AIPC, and Dell’s growing suite of AI products: Shirish Gupta speaks to Jon Krohn about neural processing units and what makes them a go-to tool for AI inference workloads, reasons to move your workloads from the cloud and to your local devices, what the mnemonic AIPC stands for and why it will soon be on everyone’s lips, and he offers a special intro to Dell’s new Pro-AI Studio Toolkit. Hear about several real-world AIPC applications run by Dell’s clients, from detecting manufacturing defects to improving efficiencies for first responders, massively supporting actual life-or-death situations.  Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/877 This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (03:28) What neural processing units (NPUs) are (23:53) About Dell Pro AI Studio  (35:03) Use cases for Dell Pro AI Studio (45

Small, simple, accessible: Hugging Face makes a huge contribution to the agentic AI wave with its smolagents. Jon Krohn explores how this small-but-mighty new Python library can act as the best personal assistant you never had. Hear about its features and use cases in this five-minute Friday. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/876 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Why are semiconductors so essential in this digital age, and how are they made? Jon Krohn speaks to electronics CEO Kai Beckmann about Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s intricate manufacturing process, how we can use AI to develop materials that power next-gen AI technologies, and how a chip with the processing power of the human brain might one day be able to run on the power of a low-watt light bulb. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/875 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (06:26) How Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany supports groundbreaking developments in AI  (13:42) Material science’s biggest challenges for AI  (29:55) What heterogeneous integration is (34:37) How optical tech influences the electronics industry  (49:04) Navigating upturns and downturns in the semiconductor industry  (53:08) How AI

In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn talks baseball. For decades, coaches have relied on player performance stats to make in-game decisions and refine their season strategies. Now, AI led by Statcast is taking baseball strategy even further, massively broadening analytics data to include pitch, swing and catch trajectories, spin rates, biomechanical information, player matchups, and how to enhance player performances. Listen to the episode to find out what other industries can learn from the “data-friendly” sport of baseball. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/874 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Natalie Monbiot is an independent advisor and collaborator for projects that concern the “virtual human”, and she is “going all in on the virtual human economy”. Jon Krohn speaks to Natalie about these new ventures, how to mitigate the divide between AI users and nonusers, and how anyone can collaborate with AI without compromising their own creativity. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/873 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (07:21) Natalie’s influences for her work (18:30) Will machines surpass human intelligence? (29:08) Using LLMs as collaborators and partners (40:15) How platforms demand user engagement and time (56:54) Natalie Monbiot at Wizly

In this five-minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into Microsoft’s recent release of Majorana 1, a new quantum processing unit that uses topological qubits, a step away from the fragile qubits currently in use. Get Jon’s thoughts about this “transistor for the quantum age”, potential applications for quantum computing, and why this marks an exciting future for data science and machine learning practitioners. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/872 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Agentic AI, AI success strategies, and why flexibility will be so important to keep up with the AI market: Jon Krohn talks to Richmond Alake about the NoSQL database MongoDB, including why it’s a great addition to your toolkit for developing (agentic) AI applications, with a look under the hood at its native vector database. Richmond also talks about why he expects multi-agent AI architectures to go mainstream in 2025.  Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/871 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (04:10) How Richmond became a Staff Developer Advocate (07:40) How NoSQL database differs from a relational database (16:50) The advantages of working with the cloud-based MongoDB Atlas (32:26) Richmond’s predictions for agentic AI (40:38) How to create an effective AI

In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into what he considers the world’s most powerful research tool to date, OpenAI’s Deep Research. Find out how OpenAI trained Deep Research to compile literature reviews of limitless topics, what similar tools are on the market, and where Jon sees the tool as having real-world value including how he uses it daily. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/870 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Jon Krohn talks to Varun Godbole about AI prompt engineering, generative wisdom, and AI generalists in this episode all about the interrelationships between humans and AI. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/869 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (10:44) Using deep learning to predict breast cancer (15:55) All about Varun’s Tuning Playbook (29:56) On the explosion of interest and news about AI and data science  (46:35) About Varun’s Wise AI

How to start a successful tech company, and how you can get started with DBT, TabPFN and BAML: Jon Krohn rounds up his favorite moments from February in this episode of “In Case You Missed It”. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/868 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

The realities of Agentic AI, AGI, and chatbots that don’t hallucinate: Andriy Burkov talks to Jon Krohn about AI in 2025. Best known for his concise machine learning modelling books, author and AI influencer Andriy Burkov also talks about his latest publication in the series, The Hundred-Page Language Learning Models Book.  Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/867 This episode is brought to you by the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (07:38) Andriy’s “triology” of books on machine learning (29:32) On the limitations of AI agents (41:12) On the prospect of artificial general intelligence (AGI) (54:24) On developing a chatbot that doesn’t hallucinate (01:10:07) On open-weight and open-source LLMs

Jon Krohn addresses a question for the ages: How close are we, really, to Jurassic Park? Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences is developing technology that aims to return previously extinct animals like the dodo and woolly mammoth to earth and, crucially, pull many others like the white rhino back from the brink of extinction.  Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/866 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Jon Krohn talks to Cal Al-Dhubaib about the extraordinary success of AI and machine learning solutions provider Pandata, his ironclad hack for any company to define their core values, and how to attract and secure loyal clients. Cal thinks tech professionals make two critical mistakes in their careers: The first is that they too-often enjoy being the gatekeepers of their work rather than educating their clients and coworkers as to the details of their projects and why it benefits the company. The second is that tech professionals don’t show vulnerability, whether that means not knowing a topic or not fully understanding how a business works. This issue, Cal says, can spell the difference between a startup’s success and failure. Learn how tech startups can make an ironclad strategy for their future in this episode of The SuperDataScience Podcast. This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience

Jon Krohn investigates OpenAI’s new release, o3-mini, in this five-minute Friday, where he walks through the reasoning model’s capabilities and performance, cross-examining them against other major-league players, DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/864 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

Jon Krohn talks tabular data with Frank Hutter, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Universität Freiburg in Germany. Despite the great steps that deep learning has made in analysing images, audio, and natural language, tabular data has remained its insurmountable obstacle. In this episode, Frank Hutter details the path he has found around this obstacle even with limited data by using a ground-breaking transformer architecture. Named TabPFN, this approach is vastly outperforming other architectures, as testified by a write up of TabPFN’s capabilities in Nature. Frank talks about his work on version 2 of TabPFN, the architecture’s cross-industry applicability, and how TabPFN is able to return accurate results with synthetic data. This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (05:57) All about the TabPFN architecture  (21:

In this episode of “In Case You Missed It”, Jon Krohn shares his favorite clips from the last four weeks. He talks to Azeem Azhar, Florian Neukart, Kirill Eremenko, Hadelin de Ponteves, and Brooke Hopkins on what’s in store for AI in 2025, from quantum computing and customizable tools to handy checklists and how the mathematics of exponentials can help us keep our heads about the swift advancement of AI. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/862 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

How does a CrossFit winner, bobsledder and swimmer go on to have a glittering career in data analytics and engineering? Colleen Fotsch talks to Jon Krohn about transitioning into very different career paths, how sports gave her the competitive mindset she needed for success in data science, and seeing the niche role of analytics engineering as a bridge between data engineering and analysis. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (05:49) Colleen’s path from athlete to data analyst (1:14:41) About the data build tool (DBT) (1:22:51) Colleen’s work at CHG Healthcare (1:32:45) How Colleen and Tia-Clair got started with PRVN GO Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/861

DeepSeek-curious? This Five-Minute Friday is for you! Jon Krohn investigates the overwhelming overnight success of this new LLM, the product of a Chinese hedge fund. DeepSeek is a market newcomer, and yet it runs shoulder to shoulder with behemoths from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google like it’s all in a day’s work. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/860 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

In this week’s guest interview, Vaibhav Gupta talks to Jon Krohn about creating a programming language, BAML, that helps companies save up to 30% on their AI costs. He explains how he started tailoring BAML to facilitate natural language generation interactions with AI models, how BAML helps companies optimize their outputs, and he also lets listeners into Boundary’s hiring process. This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (04:53) What BAML stands for (14:33) Making a prompt engineering a serious practice (18:00) How BAML helps companies (23:30) Using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) (43:09) How to get a job at Boundary Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/859

Are you an Account Executive with experience in the technology sector? In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn tells listeners about an exciting new role that has opened up at The SuperDataScience Podcast. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/858 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.