Ben Reuveni on Statistical Learning
08/30/22 • 23 min
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Even if you don’t think you’re good at math, it turns out that our brains are basically little statistical machines. Learning a new language, whether as a baby or as an adult attempting to become bilingual, means recognizing the underlying statistical patterns within language. Don’t believe us? Take it from the researchers at Duolingo!
We’re rounding out our first season of the show with Duolingo learning scientist Ben Reuveni, PhD.
Find our transcript here: LINK
Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:
Put your statistical learning to the test at www.duolingo.com
To learn more about language and how the folks at Duolingo think about it, check out https://blog.duolingo.com/
keep your eyes open for the recently announced Duolingo Math app https://www.duolingo.com/math
Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute
Follow Ben Reuveni: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-reuveni/
This episode was audio engineered by Tyler Damme.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Even if you don’t think you’re good at math, it turns out that our brains are basically little statistical machines. Learning a new language, whether as a baby or as an adult attempting to become bilingual, means recognizing the underlying statistical patterns within language. Don’t believe us? Take it from the researchers at Duolingo!
We’re rounding out our first season of the show with Duolingo learning scientist Ben Reuveni, PhD.
Find our transcript here: LINK
Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:
Put your statistical learning to the test at www.duolingo.com
To learn more about language and how the folks at Duolingo think about it, check out https://blog.duolingo.com/
keep your eyes open for the recently announced Duolingo Math app https://www.duolingo.com/math
Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute
Follow Ben Reuveni: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-reuveni/
This episode was audio engineered by Tyler Damme.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Sharon Di on Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars evoke an image of perfectly synchronized traffic moving through streets as all the vehicles coordinate with each other. Of course, this is a future vision and not the current state of autonomous vehicles. But the process of going from a few self-driving cars to a fully automated grid will be a slow process.
Sharon Di, traffic engineer and Columbia University researcher, is here to help explain how engineers and policymakers think about these issues.
Find our transcript here: LINK
Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:
Video of waymo car failing to merge: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1752896/Video-Waymos-self-driving-minivans-struggles-merge-left-lane.html
Arizona ring road experiment: http://csl.arizona.edu/content/dampening-traffic-waves-autonomous-vehicles
Academic review article about AV ring road studies: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3494577
Video of Sharon’s talk at IMSI: https://www.imsi.institute/videos/driving-and-routing-games-for-autonomous-vehicles-on-networks-a-mean-field-game-approach/
Video explainer on traffic and self-driving cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE
Check your feed to see previous episodes mentioned, including Dario on Honeybees and Merouane on 5G.
Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute
Follow Sharon Di: https://www.civil.columbia.edu/faculty/sharon-di
This episode was audio engineered by Tyler Damme.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
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Mini Season Announcement
We're taking a short break to prepare our mini season, as well as start working on season 2. So stay tuned!
Find our transcript here: LINK
Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute
This episode was audio engineered by Tyler Damme.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
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