295: A Deep Conversation About Tech & Life

In this #sponsored Feature Friday episode, Salesforce’s Rahul Auradkar speaks to Jon Krohn about the company’s unified data engine and how its acquisition of Informatica provides the missing context layer for AI models and agents. Hear how Salesforce’s Data 360 helps customers to ...  Show more

AI agents, data lakes, and managing data sprawl: Ashwin Rajeeva, cofounder and CTO of Acceldata, speaks to Jon Krohn about how the agentic data management startup raised over $100 million in venture capital to expand its business in automating data quality assurance as well as ca ...  Show more

One of the more important abilities to cultivate for the year ahead is comfort learning complicated (and therefore valuable) new things. In this episode, Cal tackles the myths surrounding mastery and presents a new mental model for internalizing non-trivial information. As he ...

My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. Hopefully it’s interesting to some folks. The aim is for these episodes to be focused on a particular topic, at times challenging, a ...  Show more

The worst part of going to school is all the homework. Nothing strikes dread in a student’s heart quite like facing down a deadline on a seven-page essay. That’s why some of them may find it tempting to turn those hours of work into a task that can be breezed through in a matt ...

Dive into the world of Data Science at Home with our latest episode, where we explore the dynamic relationship between Artificial Intelligence and the redemption of open source software. In this thought-provoking discussion, I share my insights on why now, more than ever, is t ...