DataTopics Unplugged: All Things Data, AI & Tech

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Welcome to another engaging episode of Datatopics Unplugged, the podcast where tech and relaxation intersect. Today, we're excited to host two special guests, Paolo and Tim, who bring their unique perspectives to our cozy corner.

Guests of Today

• Paolo: An enthusiast of fantasy and sci-fi reading, Paolo is on a personal mission to reduce his coffee consumption. He has a unique way of measuring his height, at 0.89 Sams tall. With over two and a half years of experience as a data engineer at dataroots, Paolo contributes a rich professional perspective. His hobbies extend to playing field hockey and a preference for the warmer summer season.
• Tim: Occasionally known as Dr. Dunkenstein, Tim brings a mix of humor and insight. He measures his height at 0.87 Sams tall. As the Head of Bizdev, he prefers to steer clear of grand titles, revealing his views on hierarchical structures and monarchies.

Topics

Biz Corner:

• Kyutai: We delve into France's answer to OpenAI with Paolo Leonard, exploring the implications and future of Kyutai: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/kyutai-is-an-french-ai-research-lab-with-a-330-million-budget-that-will-make-everything-open-source/
• GPT-NL: A discussion led by Bart Smeets on the Netherlands' own open language model and its potential impact: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366558412/Netherlands-starts-building-its-own-AI-language-model

Tech Corner:

• Data Quality Insights: A blog post by Paolo on data quality vs. data validation. We'll explore when and why data quality is essential, and evaluate tools like dbt, soda, deequ, and great_expectations: https://dataroots.io/blog/state-of-data-quality-october-2023
• Soda Data Contracts: An overview of the newly released OSS Data Contract Engine by Soda. https://docs.soda.io/soda/data-contracts.html

Food for Thought Corner:

• Hare - A 100-Year Programming Language: Bart starts a discussion on the ambition of Hare to remain relevant for a century: https://harelang.org/blog/2023-11-08-100-year-language/.

Join us for this mix of expert insights and light-hearted moments. Whether you're deeply embedded in the tech world or just dipping your toes in, this episode promises to be both informative and entertaining!
And, yes. There is a voucher, go to dataroots.io and navigate to the shop (top right) and use voucher code murilos_bargain_blast for a 25EUR discount!

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Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In episode #41, titled “Regulations and Revelations: Rust Safety, ChatGPT Secrets, and Data Contracts” we're thrilled to have Paolo Léonard joining us as we unpack a host of intriguing developments across the tech landscape:

• In Rust We Trust? White House Office urges memory safety: A dive into the push for memory safety and what it means for programming languages like Python.
• ChatGPT's Accidental Leak? Did OpenAI just accidentally leak the next big ChatGPT upgrade?: Speculations on the upcoming enhancements and their impact on knowledge accessibility.
• EU AI Act Adoption: EU Parliament officially adopts AI Act: Exploring the landmark AI legislation and its broad effects, with a critical look at potential human rights concerns.
• Meet Devin, the AI Engineer: Exploring the capabilities and potential of the first AI software engineer.
• Rye's New Stewardship: Astral takes stewardship of Rye: The next big thing in Python packaging and the role of community in driving innovation, with discussions unfolding on GitHub.
• Data Contract CLI: A look at data contracts and their importance in managing and understanding data across platforms.
• AI and Academic Papers: The influence of AI on academic research, highlighted by this paper and this paper, and how it's reshaping the landscape of knowledge sharing.

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Datatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics, and AI and get to the bottom of things. In this third and final episode of a mini-series on AI Ethics, we focus on Explainable AI (X-AI) as a means of understanding what the model considers. The conversation covers topics such as:

• What is explainable AI, how does it work and how mature is it?
• Does explainability come at a cost, in terms of performance or otherwise?
• The benefits of understanding AI models, and the realization they are not limited to ethics and compliance!

In this episode, Tim & I exchange ideas with the esteemed José Antonio Oramas Mogrovejo and Ali Anwar from UAntwerp
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Datatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics, and AI and get to the bottom of things.
In today's episode - a second one on collaborative data ecosystems - , we're diving into the world of collaborative Intelligence covering topics like federated learning, swarm learning, Edge AI and more groundbreaking approaches that are transforming the landscape of machine learning.
Join our expert guests Thomas Huybrechts and Virginie Marelli as we explore the inner workings of this innovative approach. We'll delve into the core concepts of federated learning, including how it enables organizations to leverage the collective knowledge of distributed data while maintaining data privacy and security. We'll also discuss the practical applications of federated learning in various domains, such as healthcare, finance, and IoT, and how it is being used to address real-world challenges.
Datatopics is brought to you by Dataroots

• Music: The Gentlemen - DivKid
• The thumbnail is generated by Midjourney

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Datatopics is hosted by Kevin Missoorten and typically joined by multiple guests. In a side step from our regular Tour de Tools series, we talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics and AI. In miniserie format, we discuss the different angles of these fuzzy datatopics to get to the bottom of things. In this third episode we explore the organisational aspect of going "Data Mesh" - which we concluded in our 2nd episode seems to be the essential part of it.
Music: The Gentlemen - DivKid