In this episode of A4N, I have a special announcement! While the A4N podcast will be going on indefinite hiatus, it is because I am now hosting the SuperDataScience Podcast. If you enjoyed A4N then you're sure to enjoy the SuperDataScience podcast, which publishes twice every week on Tuesdays and Fridays!

You can check it out here: https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast

In addition, a raw video feed of the podcast is available on YouTube.

In this episode of A4N, Dr. Rasmus Rothe joins us to discuss Merantix, the world’s first AI Venture Studio, which he co-founded in 2016. We discuss how Merantix companies are shaping the future by applying machine learning to automating cancer detection, training self-driving cars, and more!

Dr. Rasmus Rothe is a German native, and co-founder of Merantix, the world’s first AI-focused venture studio. Merantix has already launched three successful AI-driven companies with three more operating in stealth, and raised an additional EUR 25 MM in 2020 to continue to apply world-class AI research to solving practical issues. Rasmus published 15+ papers on deep learning while attending Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zurich, where he received his Ph.D. in computer vision and deep learning. Before founding Merantix, Rasmus worked for BCG, Google, and built a deep learning service with 150m+ users. He is also a founding board member of the German AI Association.

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1:53 Previous episode of A4N

2:05 racy doctoral research

2:28 Merantix

5:27 Deep Learning Illustrated

14:35 Merantix raised 25m euros

20:00 Vara Healthcare

20:10 Vara raised 6.5m euros ($7m) in Series A venture capital

31:41 Siasearch

38:50 Dr. Alex Flint's start-up, Zippy, was acquired by General Motors' self-driving car unit in 2018

41:30 German A.I. Association

46:20 Dr. Rasmus Rothe's LinkedIn

46:28 Rasmus on Twitter

47:15 Jon Krohn on LinkedIn

47:40 Jon Krohn's email newsletter signup on his homepage

48:00 Jon on Twitter

In this episode of our A4N podcast, our guest host Kirill Eremenko joins us to discuss SuperDataScience, his thriving data-science education business, and Vince introduces us to machine learning projects being applied to understand -- and preserve -- marine life in the oceans.

Our special guest today is Kirill Eremenko. Kirill is Russian-born Australian, and Founder and CEO of SuperDataScience , an online educational portal for Data Scientists. Their mission is to “Make The Complex Simple,” and become the biggest learning portal for Data Science enthusiasts. Ever. He is also the Co-Founder of BlueLifeAI, Founder of the DataScienceGo conference, and hosts his own podcast, the SuperDataScience Podcast!

Part I: Scaling a Global Data Business with Kirill Eremenko

4:25 OmniFocus

4:36 SuperDataScience

5:25 Udemy

8:00 The Productivity Project

8:05 Deep Work

8:20 The Great CEO Within

9:20 Peter Akkies: Get Stuff Done with OmniFocus 3

17:57 DataScienceGO Virtual

22:10 Fake Ad for “TPML”

Part 2: 23:00 Saving the Oceans with Machine Learning

24:30 A.I. Is Helping Scientists Understand an Ocean’s Worth of Data

30:18 Some like it hot - visual guidance for preference prediction

31:15 Merantix

32:10 Wirewax

33:05 Scale

36:00 VGGish

39:57 University of San Diego’s FRED

41:18 Jon Krohn’s LinkedIn

41:23 Kirill Eremenko’s LinkedIn

41:23 Vince Petaccio II’s LinkedIn

41:28 Twitter @JonKrohnLearns

41:49 jon@jonkrohn.com

41:52 email newsletter at jonkrohn.com

42:00 Machine Learning Foundations GitHub

42:38 Jon Krohn YouTube channel