The Test Set by Posit
A Posit podcast for data science junkies, anomaly hunters, and those who play outside the confidence interval. Hosted by Michael Chow, with co-hosts Wes McKinney & Hadley Wickham.
The Test Set by Posit
Latest Episodes
You're the Base, AI Is the Exponent — with Tareef Kawaf
Posit CEO Tareef Kawaf’s theory about LLMs is that they work like an exponent on whoever you already are. Greater than one and you compound. Under one and you accelerate in the wrong direction. Michael, Wes, and Hadley chat with Tareef about wh...
Smuggled Gold and Untrustworthy Intuition — with Leland McInnes
Leland McInnes has spent his career building tools a lot data scientists take for granted (UMAP, HDBSCAN), and amusingly the applications of those tools keep getting stranger. On this episode of The Test Set, he tells Michael, Hadley, and Wes a...
Nobody Remembers Your 20 Charts — with Ruth Milligan
Ruth Milligan has coached hundreds of conference speakers, curates TEDx Columbus, and wrote The Motivated Speaker. She's here to tell you that speaking is habitual, not natural. Michael, Wes, and Hadley get a live fifteen-second filler...
Let the Agent Cook — with Trevor Manz
Trevor Manz went from measuring plant apertures by hand in a wet lab to building the notebook that lets coding agents take the wheel. The creator of anywidget and founding engineer at marimo (marimo.io/pair) ...
The Answer Was Never Us — with Leilani Battle
Leilani Battle studies how software shapes what we see and believe. The University of Washington professor and co-director of the UW Interactive Data Lab talks with Michael, Hadley, and Wes about an experiment that manipulated people using noth...
