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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

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.

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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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  1. 1039: AI for Real Estate, Walkable Cities and Climate Action, with Prof. John Renne

    · 1 h 28 min

    In Episode #1039, Prof. John Renne (Professor of Real Estate and Urban Planning at Tulane University) joins Jon Krohn to describe what happens when a tenured full professor goes back to school for a master’s in AI.…

  2. 1038: AI’s Contentious Math Breakthroughs

    · 13 min

    In Episode #1038, Jon Krohn unpacks the remarkable and remarkably contentious run of mathematical results AI has produced in recent weeks, led by OpenAI’s claim to have cracked part of a million-dollar Millennium Prize…

  3. 1037: Recursive Self-Improvement: The Eureka Machine, with Dr. Richard Socher

    · 1 h 12 min

    In Episode #1037, Dr. Richard Socher (CEO and Co-Founder of Recursive) joins Jon Krohn to make the case for automating the scientific method itself. Richard’s startup came out of stealth this year with over half a…

  4. 1036: Is AI Holding Kids Back from Learning?

    · 13 min

    In Episode #1036, Jon Krohn digs into the question parents and teachers keep asking: does AI stop children from learning? Drawing on a wave of new studies, he shows the answer turns entirely on how AI is used, as a…

  5. 1035: Workslop, Glass Cliffs and Inviting Your Fears to Tea, with Carly Taylor

    · 1 h 07 min

    In Episode #1035, Carly Taylor (Founder of Rebel Data Science) returns to join Jon Krohn for a wide-ranging conversation about leading engineering teams when the ground keeps moving. Carly shipped nine Call of Duty…

  6. 1034: In Case You Missed It in September 2026

    · 44 min

    In ICYMI Episode #1034, Jon Krohn moves from what sits underneath AI systems to what it takes to live with them every day. Hear from Aishwarya Srinivasan, Luis Serrano, Katie Malone, Ish Shah and Dilani Kahawala,…

  7. 1033: Workslop: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Work, with Prof. Jeff Hancock and Dr. Kate Niederhoffer

    · 1 h 15 min

    In Episode #1033, Prof. Jeff Hancock (Professor of Communication at Stanford) and Dr. Kate Niederhoffer (Chief Scientist at BetterUp) join Jon Krohn to explain the hidden cost of AI-generated work. A year ago they…

  8. 1032: Agents Need 10x More Data Than Humans, with Salesforce’s CDO Michael Andrew

    · 28 min

    During their #sponsored discussion, Chief Data Officer at Salesforce Michael Andrew talks to Jon Krohn about what changes for a data team when its customers are AI agents as well as people. Listen to the episode to…

  9. 1031: Tokenomics: Why Your Agentic AI Bill Is Exploding (and How to Fix It), with Tyler Cox and Ish Shah

    · 1 h 15 min

    In Episode #1031, Ish Shah and Tyler Cox (Distinguished Engineers in the Office of the CTO for Dell Technologies' client group) join Jon Krohn to work out why agentic AI bills are exploding and what can be done about…

  10. 1030: Garbage In, Gospel Out: Why Agents Need Better Data, with Salesforce's Gaurav Pathak

    · 23 min

    During their #sponsored discussion, Senior Vice President Product Management AI and Metadata at Salesforce, Gaurav Pathak talks to Jon Krohn about why AI agents need well-labeled, high-quality data to deliver reliable…

  11. 1029: How AI Brought a Podcast Back From the Dead, with Linear Digressions’ Katie Malone

    · 1 h 10 min

    In Episode #1029, Dr. Katie Malone (Host of Linear Digressions) joins Jon Krohn to explain how AI brought her podcast back from the dead. After nearly 300 episodes, Katie shut down Linear Digressions due to burnout,…

  12. 1028: The Chip Built for Agentic AI Inference, with SambaNova's Anton McGonnell

    · 30 min

    In Episode #1028, Anton McGonnell (VP of Product at SambaNova) joins Jon Krohn to explain why the chips running most AI inference today were never designed for the job. Agentic AI has changed the computational profile…

  13. 1027: Building an Always-On AI Agent for Busy Parents, with Dr. Dilani Kahawala

    · 1 h 03 min

    In Episode #1027, Dr. Dilani Kahawala (Co-Founder and CEO of Anna) joins Jon Krohn to explain what it takes to build an always-on AI assistant that busy parents will trust with their inboxes. Anna watches the email,…

  14. 1026: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra

    · 20 min

    In Episode #1026, Jon Krohn breaks down GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s new flagship that its president has floated as a possible marker of AGI. Jon covers what the model is, what it costs, its state-of-the-art results across…

  15. 1025: Word Gravity: How Transformers Bend Space, with Dr. Luis Serrano

    · 1 h 11 min

    In Episode #1025, Dr. Luis Serrano (Founder of Serrano Academy) joins Jon Krohn to explain the paper he co-authored on the curved spacetime of transformer architectures, in which attention stops being a lookup table…

  16. 1024: In Case You Missed It in August 2026

    · 34 min

    In ICYMI Episode #1024, Jon Krohn tracks the gap between AI investment and AI return, from the technology side to the people side. Hear from Pete Johnson, Jerry Yurchisin, Priyanka Vergadia and Tristan Handy,…

  17. 1023: Agentic AI Skills That Matter Now, with Aishwarya Srinivasan

    · 1 h 18 min

    In Episode #1023, Aishwarya Srinivasan (Co-Founder of The Gen Academy) joins Jon Krohn to work out where a competitive moat comes from once anything you can build in ten minutes, somebody else can build in ten minutes…

  18. 1022: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, Skills, Hooks and Subagents: A Field Guide to Steering AI Agents

    · 18 min

    In Episode #1022, Jon Krohn tackles the art of steering AI agents, deciding where your instructions should live so they get followed reliably without bloating every request. A sequel to Episode #1020 (where model size…

  19. 1021: How dbt Won Analytics Engineering, with dbt Lab’s CEO Tristan Handy

    · 52 min

    In Episode #1021, Tristan Handy (Founder and CEO of dbt Labs) joins Jon Krohn to explain how a study of about a hundred companies in 2016 became analytics engineering, and then became a tool that over a hundred…

  20. 1020: How to Choose Model Size and Effort Level: The Two Critical Dials

    · 17 min

    In Episode #1020, Jon Krohn unpacks the two dials that increasingly decide what you get out of a large language model: which model size you pick and how much effort you tell it to spend. Using a July Anthropic blog…

  21. 1019: Anyone Can Write Code Now, So What Gets You Hired? (With Priyanka Vergadia)

    · 1 h 00 min

    In Episode #1019, Priyanka Vergadia (founder of The Cloud Girl, former Senior Director of AI Transformation at Microsoft and Head of North America Developer Relations at Google) joins Jon Krohn to explain why almost…

  22. 1018: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: Open-Weight Model Surpasses Most American Frontier Labs

    · 13 min

    In Episode #1018, Jon Krohn breaks down Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba’s enormous new flagship, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that, if its promised weights ship, becomes the largest open-weight release in…

  23. 1017: Vector Search, Agentic Memory and Effective RAG, with MongoDB’s Pete Johnson

    · 57 min

    In Episode #1017, Pete Johnson (Field CTO of AI at MongoDB) joins Jon Krohn to explain why four out of five organizations have AI steering committees and success metrics, yet only one in five sees a return on the…

  24. 1016: In Case You Missed It in July 2026

    · 30 min

    In this month's episode of ICYMI, Jon Krohn traces a line from algorithmic harm to the human skills that still hold their value. Hear from Dr. Cathy O'Neil, Ben Todd, Steve Mock, and Dr. Catherine Williams, discussing…

  25. 1015: Mathematical Optimization in the Agentic AI Era, with Gurobi's Jerry Yurchisin

    · 1 h 18 min

    In Episode #1015, Jerry Yurchisin (manager of decision intelligence strategy at Gurobi Optimization) joins Jon Krohn to explain the AI technology that makes breaking a constraint mathematically impossible. Large…

  26. 1014: OpenAI Agent Breaches Hugging Face: All You Must Know incl. How to Protect Yourself

    · 21 min

    In Episode #1014, Jon Krohn breaks down a security incident that reads like science fiction: during an internal evaluation, an autonomous OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked its way…

  27. 1013: Weapons of Math Destruction, Ten Years On, with Dr. Cathy O’Neil

    · 1 h 25 min

    In Episode #1013, Dr. Cathy O'Neil (Harvard math PhD, former Wall Street quant and author of the mega-bestseller Weapons of Math Destruction) joins Jon Krohn to explain what actually makes an algorithm terrifying: not…

  28. 1012: The Open-Weight 2.8-Trillion Parameter Competing at the Frontier

    · 12 min

    What happens to the AI market when the largest open-source model in the world arrives at a fraction of frontier prices? In this week’s episode, host Jon Krohn digs into Kimi K3, the 2.8-trillion-parameter release from…

  29. 1011: The Math Still Matters: Deep Skills in the Age of AI, with Dr. Catherine Williams

    · 1 h 10 min

    Dr. Catherine Williams, Chief Data Officer at the nonprofit Candid, was solving black-hole equations with pen and paper before she ever wrote a line of code. She earned a PhD in math researching general relativity and…

  30. 1010: Fable 5 as Advisor: Anthropic's Two-Model Pattern for Smarter, Cheaper Agents

    · 14 min

    In Episode #1010, Jon Krohn digs into “the advisor strategy”, a clever pattern that pairs a fast, cheap executor model with a frontier-class advisor it can consult mid-task, all inside a single API call. Every agent…

  31. 1009: How AI Is Quietly Saving Lives, with Steve Mock

    · 1 h 07 min

    In Episode #1009, Steve Mock (investor at Blumberg Capital, five-time entrepreneur and creator of aisavedme.org), joins Jon Krohn to explore the quiet layer of everyday AI adoption that rarely gets documented. After…

  32. 1008: The AI-Native Startup Playbook

    · 16 min

    In Episode #1008, Jon Krohn digs into Anthropic's 35-page Founder's Playbook and pulls out the practical guidance for each of its four startup stages: Idea, MVP, Launch and Scale. AI has erased the three bottlenecks…

  33. 1007: How to Find Solid Career Ground in the AI Era, with 80,000 Hours Founder Ben Todd

    · 1 h 36 min

    Benjamin Todd, co-founder and President of 80,000 Hours and author of the new Penguin Random House book 80,000 Hours: How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good, joins Jon Krohn for a major update on career…

  34. 1006: In Case You Missed It in June 2026

    · 44 min

    In this month's episode of ICYMI, hear from Chip Huyen, Andrey Kurenkov, Frank Basso and Gilbert Eijkelenboom, discussing why moats are shifting toward physical systems and accumulated product intuition, how Astrocade…

  35. 1005: People Skills for Analytical Thinkers, with Bestselling Author Gilbert Eijkelenboom

    · 1 h 11 min

    Gilbert Eijkelenboom, bestselling author of People Skills for Analytical Thinkers and founder of the training firm MindSpeaking joins Jon Krohn to make the case that communication is a core data skill, not an optional…

  36. 1004: Recursive Self-Improvement

    · 10 min

    Could an AI get good enough at AI research to build its own, more capable successor and kick off a compounding loop? That’s recursive self-improvement (RSI) and it surged into the conversation after Anthropic revealed…

  37. 1003: Building an AI Data Center End to End, with Lightning AI’s Frank Basso

    · 1 h 12 min

    Frank Basso, VP of Infrastructure at Lightning AI, joins Jon Krohn for a rare ground-level tour of the one layer of the AI stack the show had never covered in over a thousand episodes: the physical data center. Frank…

  38. 1002: Fable 5: The Full Story from Capabilities to Drama

    · 16 min

    Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 was the most capable AI model ever released to the public and it lasted just three days before the US government forced it offline. Jon Krohn unpacks both halves of the story: what makes…

  39. 1001: How AI Erased My Career Moat, an Episode #1001 Special: Jon Krohn interviewed by Kirill Eremenko

    · 1 h 56 min

    For this episode #1001 special, the tables are turned: SuperDataScience founder Kirill Eremenko takes the host’s chair and Jon Krohn is the guest. They trace Jon Krohn’s path from an Oxford neuroscience PhD to a New…

  40. 1000: Ten Years of the Super Data Science Podcast, with Jon, Kirill and Special Guests

    · 1 h 00 min

    For this landmark 1,000th episode and the show’s 10-year anniversary, host Jon Krohn is joined by SuperDataScience founder Kirill Eremenko, who hosted the podcast for its first 400-plus episodes before handing over the…

  41. 999: What's Left to Build When Software Is Free, with Chip Huyen

    · 1 h 16 min

    Chip Huyen joins host Jon Krohn for this milestone episode 999 to talk about her record-breaking book "AI Engineering" the most-read title on the O'Reilly platform last year and how the AI landscape has shifted since…

  42. 998: In Case You Missed It in May 2026

    · 28 min

    In this month’s episode of ICYMI, Jon Krohn explores how AI agents are simultaneously creating new risks and unlocking powerful new ways of working with data. Hear from Anneka Gupta, Cal Al-Dhubaib, Trevor Manz, Jazmia…

  43. 997: How This Text-to-Video-Game AI Startup Hit 20M Users

    · 1 h 10 min

    Dr. Andrey Kurenkov returns to the show to talk about Astrocade's astronomical growth from pre-alpha to over 20 million engaged users, what it actually takes to build a vibe-coding platform that scales, and how the…

  44. 996: TrueFoundry’s Nikunj Bajaj on How to Get $100M Returns on AI Agent Deployments

    · 30 min

    TrueFoundry co-founder and CEO Nikunj Bajaj speaks to Jon Krohn about how enterprises like Nvidia and Siemens are realizing returns of over $100 million from single agent deployments, the AI gateway architecture that…

  45. 995: End-to-End Foundation Models for the Energy Industry, with Jazmia Henry

    · 1 h 09 min

    Jazmia Henry joins Jon Krohn to break down what it actually takes to build end-to-end foundation models for the energy industry. From wrangling decades of handwritten oil-and-gas documents into usable training data, to…

  46. 994: AI’s Putting Recent Grads Out of Work; Here’s How to Get Hired Anyway!

    · 11 min

    Unemployment for recent computer-science graduates now rivals rates for fine-arts and anthropology majors, and undergraduate CS enrollment fell 11% in 2025. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn walks through the data…

  47. 993: How to Build AI-First Organizations, with Jacob Miller and Jeremy Mumford

    · 1 h 10 min

    For years, AI content has come in the form of “use this library, use this tool” tutorials that age out within months. Jacob Miller and Jeremy Mumford, co-authors of the brand new Wiley book Architected Intelligence,…

  48. 992: Tokenmaxxing vs AI Hardware Bottlenecks

    · 15 min

    While “tokenmaxxing”, the social media trend of maximizing AI token consumption as a vanity metric, takes off online, the physical infrastructure behind AI is slamming into serious bottlenecks. In this Five-Minute…

  49. 991: Pair Programming with AI in Your Python Notebook, with Dr. Trevor Manz

    · 1 h 09 min

    Dr. Trevor Manz of Marimo talks to Jon Krohn about Marimo Pair, an open-source agent skill that teaches coding agents like Claude Code how to drive a reactive Python notebook, reading cell state, running Python in the…

  50. 990: Inside Mythos: Anthropic's Locked-Down Frontier Model

    · 11 min

    Anthropic has built a frontier AI model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that it has decided not to release it to the general public. In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn breaks down Claude Mythos…

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