Asif Noor: Opening up on data and financial fragility

2 March 2020 14:00

I chat with Asif on his career journey, how the world changed after the GFC and what he sees for the future of machine learning assisting with rigorous testing of a hypothesis.

Career, systems, how the world changed after GFC, data sets that are interesting, AI and machine learning, neural networks, testing a hypothesis and data.

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