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1. TastePrint

   29 oktober 2026 · 26 min

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   What if we could 3D print food with customized flavors and textures? Yamato Miyatake joins us to explore how digital food fabrication, human-computer interaction, and AI could transform the future of cooking and dining.

2. Gestures Around the Ear

   18 oktober 2026 · 30 min

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   The next evolution of wearable technology may not require new screens or controllers, but new ways to interact with the devices we already wear. Shimon explores how gesture-sensing earbuds could transform virtual reality and wearable computing through intuitive, user-centered interactions that make technology more accessible and adaptable. Lees meer

3. Implicit Interactions

   5 oktober 2026 · 45 min

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   How do we design robots and autonomous vehicles that understand the unwritten rules of human behavior? Kyle speaks with Cornell Tech professor Wendy Ju about implicit interaction, "Wizard of Oz" prototyping, and what studying pedestrians, self-driving cars, and even robotic furniture can teach us about designing technology that behaves the way people expect. Lees meer

4. The Lived Informatics Model

   26 september 2026 · 34 min

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   The data we collect about ourselves can tell us a lot—but only if the technology collecting it actually fits into our lives. Daniel Epstein explores personal informatics, from fitness trackers and food journals to baby tracking and AI, and explains why abandoning a tracking tool doesn't necessarily mean it failed. Lees meer

5. Recommender Systems Today and Tomorrow

   9 september 2026 · 23 min

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   In the final episode of our Recommender Systems season, we explore the growing questions of trust, manipulation, privacy, fairness, sustainability, and user control. From fake reviews and shilling attacks to explainable recommendations and user-selected algorithms, we look at what happens when recommender systems must answer not only for what they recommend, but for the consequences of those choices. Lees meer

6. Recommender Systems Optimization Goals

   1 september 2026 · 31 min

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   In part two of the Data Skeptic Recommender Systems season finale, Kyle asks a deceptively difficult question: what should recommender systems actually optimize for? Drawing on conversations from across the season, the episode explores engagement, filter bubbles, popularity bias, fairness, human curation, embeddings, and the growing role—and risks—of large language models in shaping what gets recommended to us. Lees meer

7. Recommender Systems Origin Story

   18 augustus 2026 · 26 min

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   Where did recommender systems come from, and how do we know when they're actually working? In part one of Data Skeptic's three-part Recommender Systems finale, Kyle traces the field from collaborative filtering and the Netflix Prize to matrix factorization and modern approaches, while exploring why accuracy alone can't capture what makes a recommendation useful, surprising, or meaningful. Lees meer

8. Social Choice for Fair Recommendations

   27 juli 2026 · 43 min

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   Recommender systems influence nearly every aspect of our digital lives—but what does it mean for those systems to be fair? Robin Burke joins Data Skeptic to discuss the history of recommender systems, the limitations of optimizing purely for accuracy, and how ideas from social choice theory can help balance the needs of users, creators, and society. The conversation explores the future of recommendation algorithms and why fairness is a far more complex challenge than it first appears. Lees meer

9. News Recommendations

   2 juli 2026 · 46 min

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   News recommendation algorithms influence far more than what stories we click—they can shape our understanding of the world. In this episode, Kyle Polich speaks with Andreea Iana about responsible AI, filter bubbles, multilingual news recommendation, and her open-source NewsRecLib framework for evaluating recommender systems. They explore why bigger models aren't always better and how future recommendation systems can balance personalization with diversity and societal impact. Lees meer

10. Give Users the Wheel

    23 juni 2026 · 35 min

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    What if you could simply tell a recommendation system what you want instead of relying on likes, dislikes, and watch history? Kyle Polich talks with Fuyuan Lyu about the DPR framework, which combines large language models and traditional recommender systems to give users direct control over recommendations through natural language. Together they explore how conversational interfaces could transform platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and news feeds while preserving the strengths of modern recommendation algorithms. Lees meer

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