"It's much harder to deploy machine learning models on the internet than on a fixed dataset that you have on your computer."
"The main difficulty in having machine learning transform personalization is that it's very hard to get access to all of the data for a person."
"We've shifted more into the age that people are creating things for free but are hoping to reap the rewards later."
"Even if you've just started learning to code for three months, you can create an article that people go to when they start learning to code."

Season 01 Episode 11

Innovation in Lifelong Learning

Featuring Jessica Yung

What is the future of lifelong learning? Entrepreneur Jessica Yung joins Dirk and Jon to discuss methods, philosophies, and companies active at the leading edge of self-directed learning.

Entrepreneur Jessica Yung joins Dirk and Jon to talk about trends in lifelong learning. Building from her experience at the University of Cambridge and her current Research Masters studies in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, Jessica explores the do-it-yourself ethos and tools for both teaching and learning that make knowledge more accessible than ever.

Jessica Yung

Machine Learning masters students at University College London and a Talent and Deal Scout at Backed.VC.

Jessica is a machine learning researcher keen on learning and helping people learn, whether at university in her journey across four departments at Cambridge and UCL or online as an NVIDIA scholar on Udacity's self-driving car program. Jessica creates learning resources for machine learning on her blog and on GitHub. She previously founded an edtech startup in Hong Kong and taught programming and digital marketing.

Dirk Knemeyer

Producer

Dirk is a social futurist, helping to imagine and implement social systems that better humanity. His research on the human condition has taken him around the world, from North Korea to Nepal, and from an anti-immigration parade in Germany to meeting with a community leader in Ferguson, Missouri. Previously a design entrepreneur, he created successful technology companies in Silicon Valley, Boston, and his native Ohio.

Jonathan Follett

Producer

Jon is a writer, musician, and emerging tech researcher who is a principal at GoInvo, a design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare. His published books include science fiction novel "Marvin and the Moths" with Scholastic and "Designing for Emerging Technologies" with O’Reilly. He produces electronic dance music under the name Jonny Fallout.

Season 01 Episode 11

Innovation in Lifelong Learning

Featuring Jessica Yung

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Jessica Yung

Dirk Knemeyer

Jonathan Follett

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