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What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey

What is Machine Learning and How is it Used? – Hash it Out with Cameron Hickey | Miles O'Brien Productions

What is machine learning? How does it work? What are these artificially intelligent algorithms useful for? Considering they are used by Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook and many other companies we interact with on a daily basis, what are the benefits and drawbacks? Thanks to a listener suggestion, we decided to delve deeper on the subject. […]

Week in Science

Hurricane season starts, methane dunes on Pluto, climatic adaptations of parasites: this week in science

Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. Bracing for another hurricane season June 1st marks the beginning of hurricane season, one which NOAA forecasts to likely be “near- or above-normal.” Of course, after last year, we wonder if there may be a “new normal” to get […]

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The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News – with Producer Cameron Hickey

The Software We Wrote to Understand Junk News – with Producer Cameron Hickey | Miles O'Brien Productions

In the final episode in our series on Junk News, some wisdom from one of the leading experts in the murky world of online misinformation. He also happens to be the producer of the series that we aired on the PBS NewsHour. Now he’s taking the software he wrote to Harvard, where they hope to […]

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Focus: Climate Change

How climate change 'exacerbates' wildfires in the American West | Miles O'Brien Productions

How climate change ‘exacerbates’ wildfires in the American West

Companies race to mine lithium, a battery essential | Miles O'Brien Productions

Companies race to mine lithium, a battery essential

A risky expedition to study the ‘doomsday glacier’ | Miles O'Brien Productions

A risky expedition to study the ‘doomsday glacier’

Australian bushfires prompt conversation about land management practices | Miles O'Brien Productions

Australian bushfires prompt conversation about land management practices

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