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Q&A with Kyle

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We celebrate episode 1000000000 with some Q&A from host Kyle Polich. We boil this episode down to four key questions: 1) How do you find guests 2) What is Data Skeptic all about? 3) What is Kyle all about? 4) What are Kyle's thoughts on AGI? Thanks to our sponsorsdataannotation.tech/programmers https://www.webai.com/dataskeptic

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Dec 19, 2023

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Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith: Our guest this week is Hamilton physics professor Kate Jones-Smith who joins us to discuss the evidence for the claim that drip paintings of Jackson Pollock contain fractal patterns. This hypothesis originates in a paper by Taylor, Micolich,... by Data Skeptic
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$Jackson Pollock Authentication Analysis with Kate Jones-Smith: Our guest this week is Hamilton physics professor Kate Jones-Smith who joins us to discuss the evidence for the claim that drip paintings of Jackson Pollock contain fractal patterns. This hypothesis originates in a paper by Taylor, Micolich,...$
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