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Episode Notes [00:00] The Importance of Questioning [01:21] Introduction to Curated Questions [02:20] Meet Kevin Kelly [03:56] Kevin Kelly's Mentor: Stewart Brand [05:33] The Role of Questions in Intellectual Traditions [06:47] Disequilibrium and Growth [10:21] Embodied Questions and Exploration [11:11] Balancing Exploration and Exploitation [11:50] The Inefficiency of Questioning [15:53] The Abundance Mindset [18:39] The Inevitable and Quality Questions [19:26] Hill Climbing vs. Hill Making [22:28] The Challenge of Innovation [24:13] The Beauty of Engineering and Innovation [24:34] Navigating the Frontier of New Technologies [25:33] The Role of AI in Question Formulation [26:43] Challenges in Advancing AI Capabilities [29:11] The Long Now Foundation and the 10,000 Year Clock [29:56] Transmitting Values Over Time [31:03] Ethics in AI and Self-Driving Cars [33:26] The Art of Questioning [34:04] Photography: Capturing vs. Creating [36:12] The Inefficiency of Exploration [38:36] Daily Practice and Long-Term Success [40:17] The Importance of Quantity for Quality [43:22] Final Thoughts and Encouragement on Questioning [46:24] Summary Takeaways Resources Mentioned Wired Magazine Whole Earth Review WELL Hackers Conference What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly Cool Tools Project Long Now Foundation Stewart Brand Socratic Method Koan René Descartes Conde Nast Vouge Olivetti Typewriter Trolley Problem Terry Gross Lex Friedman Tim Ferriss KK.org Kevin2Kelly on Instagram Recomendo Newsletter Excellent Advice for Living Beauty Pill Producer Ben Ford Questions Asked When did you first understand the power of questions? Can I do that? Can that be something that you can learn? How did questions function differently between Eastern versus Western intellectual traditions? What role do you think embodied questions those we explore through doing rather than thinking play in developing wisdom? What's on the other side of the hill? What happens if you go to the end? What's the origin of this? How should one think about the exploratory in one's life? Is there anything that you would add to your list of 15 statements that define what makes a quality question? Is there a qualitative difference between the questions humans are asking and the questions our AI systems are beginning to formulate? What do you think would help them get there? Any idea on a forcing function on how we get them [LLMs] to ask the better questions so that they might improve in that direction? What were some novel questions that broke your brain at the time in thinking about this 10,000-year clock or beyond? What's it good for? What would you use it for? What else could you do over the long term for 10,000 years? How do you transmit values over time? How do you evolve values that need to change, and how do you make a difference? How do even know what you don't want to change? What do you want to continue? What's the most essential aspects of our civilization that we don't want to go away? What are the rules? What is the system? How do you pass things along in time and not change the ones you don't wanna change, and make sure you change the ones that are more adaptable so they can adapt? What do you think about questioning itself as an art form? How has being a photographer influenced the way you question reality, visually compared to verbally? Are you a photographer that takes photos or makes photos? What will happen? What will happen next? What are your right now questions that you are wrestling with or working with in your life? Can someone else do what I'm trying to do here? Am I more me in doing my art or more me in doing the writing? Do you have any other thoughts or encouragement about questions that we haven't explored? What makes a good question? How do you ask a good question? What questions do you dwell on to be in purposeful imbalance? What is your practice in embracing the inefficient nature of questions to achieve breakthroughs? What are the new hills you can build and frontiers you can explore? How can you use your curiosity and humanity to pursue questions that trend toward the fringes?…

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

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The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast. As the quantity of data on our planet doubles every couple of years and with this trend set to continue for decades to come, there's an unprecedented opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in your lifetime. In conversation with the biggest names in the data science industry, Jon cuts through hype to fuel that professional impact. Whether you're curious about getting started in a data career or you're a deep technical expert, whether you'd like to understand what A.I. is or you'd like to integrate more data-driven processes into your business, we have inspiring guests and lighthearted conversation for you to enjoy. We cover tools, techniques, and implementation tricks across data collection, databases, analytics, predictive modeling, visualization, software engineering, real-world applications, commercialization, and entrepreneurship − everything you need to crush it with data science.

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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

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889: AI-Powered Virtual Reality: The Future of Education and Entertainment, with Mary Spio 1:06:59

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Founder of CEEK’s Mary Spio talks to Jon Krohn about how the platform contributes to the emerging community of digital creators with its blockchain-powered virtual experiences. Hear how Mary got her first investors for CEEK and how it is used across industries as diverse as education, entertainment, aviation, and healthcare. Additional materials: ⁠⁠ ⁠www.superdatascience.com/889⁠ This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠ Adverity, the conversational analytics platform ⁠⁠ and 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: (03:42) What CEEK is and the multiple industries it serves (38:47) How Mary developed VR headsets to reduce nausea experienced by women headset users (42:10) The growing potential for immersive experiences (44:36) How to mitigate the risks of immersive-experience misuse (51:56) Mary’s tips for career success…

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888: Teams of Agents: The Next Frontier in AI Collaboration, with Mike Pell 31:32

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Mike Pell speaks to Jon Krohn about The Microsoft Garage, a program that drives the culture of innovation at the tech multinational, and how listeners can apply their principles to foster innovation in their workplace. In this Five-Minute Friday, you’ll hear more about Microsoft’s approaches to agentic AI, the future of human-AI collaboration in the workplace, and why experimentation and curiosity are critical skills for the future of work. Additional materials: ⁠www.superdatascience.com/888⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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887: Multi-Agent Teams, Quantum Computing and the Future of Work, with Dell’s Global CTO John Roese 1:02:04

8 days ago1:02:04

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Jon Krohn speaks to John Roese about the promise of multi-agent teams for business, the benefits of agentic AI systems that can identify and complete tasks independently, and how these systems demand new authentication, authorization, security and knowledge-sharing standards. They also discuss how to use AI to refine project ideas down to a core business need, as well as the new and emerging careers in the tech industry and beyond, all thanks to AI. Additional materials: ⁠⁠ www.superdatascience.com/887 This episode is brought to you by ⁠ Adverity, the conversational analytics platform ⁠ and 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: (03:54) Why ROI is the most important aspect of an AI-driven project (14:06) Why high-impact AI projects trigger a flywheel of success (23:32) The future of agentic systems (30:28) How to manage agentic systems at scale (46:36) The disruptive nature of quantum computing…

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886: In Case You Missed it In April 2025 35:49

12 days ago35:49

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Our In Case You Missed It episode for April has clips on NVIDIA’s and Dell’s product and service offers including an overview of NVIDIA’s GPUs, AI Enterprise, and its microservices. You’ll also hear about AWS’ focus on bringing choice to customers and the incredible power of its Graviton CPU, how Zerve opens access to AI deployment, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s multi-chip integration, and why reliance on the cloud might soon become a practice of times past. Additional materials: ⁠ www.superdatascience.com/886⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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885: Python Polars: The Definitive Guide, with Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp 1:15:22

15 days ago1:15:22

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Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp are data frame library Polars’ greatest advocates in this episode with Jon Krohn, where they discuss their book, Python Polars: The Definitive Guide , best practice for using Polars, why Pandas users are switching to Polars for data frame operations in Python, and how the library reduces memory usage and compute time up to 10x more than Pandas. Listen to the episode to be a part of an O’Reilly giveaway! Additional materials: ⁠www.superdatascience.com/885 This episode is brought to you by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS , by Adverity, the conversational analytics platform and 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: (07:44) Why Jeroen and Thijs wrote Python Polars: The Definitive Guide (21:54) Best practices in Polars (25:55) Why Polars has so many users (34:32) The benefits of the Great Tables package (51:06) Jeroen and Thijs’ partnership with NVIDIA and Dell for Python Polars: The Definitive Guide…

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884: Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Why Everyone’s Talking About It 6:44

19 days ago6:44

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Anthropic’s hottest tool, with over 1,000 community-built MCP servers in operation by February alone. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn explains what took so long for users to catch on: Anthropic released MCP in November 2024. Hear more about the buzz behind MCP, its applications, and how easy it is to get started. Additional materials: ⁠ www.superdatascience.com/884⁠ Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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883: Blackwell GPUs Are Now Available at Your Desk, with Sama Bali and Logan Lawler 1:04:03

22 days ago1:04:03

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Returning after the “Super Bowl of AI”, NVIDIA GTC, Sama Bali and Logan Lawler talk to Jon Krohn about their respective work at tech giants NVIDIA and Dell. Sama and Logan discuss the next-gen Blackwell GPUs to their collaboration with Dell in launching Pro-Max PCs specially designed to take on heavy computational workloads as well as the incredible performance of GB 10 and GB 300 workstations, and the widening accessibility of AI developer tools and models. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/883 This episode is brought to you by ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference , by Adverity, the conversational analytics platform and 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: (07:29) About Dell’s Pro Max PCs (14:01) Why having a Blackwell GPU from Nvidia is a great option for those new to training and deploying AI models (36:47) When it makes sense for a data scientist to switch from a Unix to a Windows based system (46:33) Logan’s and Sama’s predictions for AI…

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882: 40x Hotter Than the Sun: The ASML Machines That Make AI Chips 9:45

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This week’s five-minute Friday heads to the Netherlands to find out more about Dutch company ASML, the brains behind the lithography machines that build AI chips. Jon Krohn walks through how ASML came to dominate the market, where they’re headed next, and how ASML’s complex machines shape AI chips as well as the very future of AI. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/882 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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881: Beyond GPUs: The Power of Custom AI Accelerators, with Emily Webber 1:17:06

29 days ago1:17:06

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Emily Webber speaks to Jon Krohn about her work at Amazon Web Services, from its Annapurna Labs-developed Nitro System, a foundational technology that can enhance securities and performance in the cloud and how Trainium2 became AWS’ most powerful AI chip with four times the compute of Trainium. Hear the specs of AWS’s chips and when to use them. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/881 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: (08:36) Emily’s work on AWS’ SageMaker and Trainium (23:54) How AWS Neuron lets builders tailor their approach to using frameworks (29:07) Why using an accelerator is better than using a GPU (35:29) The key differences between AWS Trainium and AWS Trainium2 (52:45) How to select between AWS Trainium and AWS Trainium2…

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880: Manus, DeepSeek and China’s AI Boom 10:17

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First developed in China, Manus AI and DeepSeek have made great waves on an international scale. Sought-after for their cost-effectiveness compared to US-made tech, Manus AI and DeepSeek are quickly becoming dominant technologies inside the country. In this five-minute Friday, Jon Krohn asks: Do these technologies warrant the huge amount of resources spent on them by multiple industries in China, and what makes hype become a mainstay? Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/880 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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879: Serverless, Parallel, and AI-Assisted: The Future of Data Science is Here, with Zerve’s Dr. Greg Michaelson 1:07:14

5 weeks ago1:07:14

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Greg Michaelson speaks to Jon Krohn about the latest developments at Zerve, an operating system for developing and delivering data and AI products, including a revolutionary feature allowing users to run multiple parts of a program’s code at once and without extra costs. You’ll also hear why LLMs might spell trouble for SaaS companies, Greg’s ‘good-cop, bad-cop’ routine that improves LLM responses, and how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) can be deployed to create even more powerful AI applications. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/879 This episode is brought to you by Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS and 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: (04:00) Zerve’s latest features (35:26) How Zerve’s built-in API builder and GPU manager lowers barriers to entry (40:54) How to get started with Zerve (41:49) Will LLMs make SaaS companies redundant? (52:29) How to create fairer and more transparent AI systems (56:07) The future of software developer workflows…

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878: In Case You Missed It in March 2025 30:49

6 weeks ago30:49

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AI stacks, AGI, training neural networks, and AI authenticity: Jon Krohn rounds up his interviews from March with this episode of “In Case You Missed It”. In his favorite clips from the month, he speaks to Andriy Burkov (Episode 867), Natalie Monbiot (Episode 873), Richmond Alake (Episode 871) and Varun Godbole (Episode 869). Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/878 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.…

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877: The Neural Processing Units Bringing AI to PCs, with Shirish Gupta 1:09:32

6 weeks ago1:09:32

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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 (45:16) How AI development workflows and applications will change (49:01) About Dell’s AI factory ecosystem…

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876: Hugging Face’s smolagents: Agentic AI in Python Made Easy 15:11

7 weeks ago15:11

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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.…

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875: How Semiconductors Are Made (And Fuel the AI Boom), with Kai Beckmann 1:10:29

7 weeks ago1:10:29