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What if machines could learn, adapt, and make decisions on their own? This week on Techsplainers, we unravel the foundations of machine learning, from supervised and unsupervised methods to semi‑supervised and reinforcement learning, and how these approaches shape the AI systems we use every day.

Machine Learning

  • Episode 051: What is machine learning?
  • Episode 052: What is supervised learning?
  • Episode 053: What is unsupervised learning?
  • Episode 054: What is semi-supervised learning?
  • Episode 055: What is reinforcement learning?

What is machine learning?
 

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What is machine learning?

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DevOps week:

  • Episode 046: Part 1: Part 1: What is DevOps?
  • Episode 047: Part 2: Part 2: What is DevOps?
  • Episode 048: Part 3: What is continuous integration? 
  • Episode 049: Part 1: What is continuous delivery?
  • Episode 050: Part 2: What is continuous testing?

 
Part 1: What is DevOps?

Voice: Dan Segal | Authors: Gregg Lindemulder, Matthew Kosinski
Part 2: What is DevOps?

Voice: Dan Segal | Authors: Gregg Lindemulder, Matthew Kosinski
What is continuous integration?

Voice: Dan Segal | Authors: Chrystal R. China, Michael Goodwin
What is continuous delivery?

Voice: Dan Segal

What is continuous testing?

Voice: Dan Segal

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Agentic AI

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Voice: Alice Gomstyn | Authors: Cole Stryker
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Voice: Alice Gomstyn | Authors: Anna Gutowska
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Voice: Alice Gomstyn | Authors: Charlotte Hu, Amanda Downie, Matthew Finio,
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Voice: Alice Gomstyn | Authors: Cole Stryker
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Voice: Alice Gomstyn
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Voice: Alice Gomstyn | Authors: Anna Gutowska
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Voice: Alice Gomstyn | Authors: Shalini Harkar
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The 2026 Guide to AI Agents

Data for AI

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Voice: Matt Finio | Authors: Tom Krantz, Alexandra Jonker
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Voice: Matt Finio | Authors: Matthew Kosinski
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is a data lakehouse?
Voice: Matt Finio | Authors: Alexandra Jonker, Alice Gomstyn
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is data fabric?
Voice: Matt Finio | Authors: Alexandra Jonker, Tom Krantz
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is data quality management?
Voice: Matt Finio
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is data integrity?
Voice: Matt Finio | Authors: Tim Mucci, Cole Stryker
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is data accuracy?
Voice: Matt Finio

Observability

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Voice: PJ Hagerty
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Voice: PJ Hagerty | Authors: Chrystal R. China
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Voice: PJ Hagerty | Authors: Chrystal R. China
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is network observability?
Voice: PJ Hagerty | Authors: Chrystal R. China, Sanchita Chakraborti
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is network observability?
Voice: PJ Hagerty | Authors: Chrystal R. China, Sanchita Chakraborti
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is SRE observability?
Voice: PJ Hagerty | Authors: Chrystal R. China
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is full-stack observability?
Voice: PJ Hagerty | Authors: Jim Holdsworth, Annie Badman

Cybersecurity

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Voice: Bryan Clark | Authors: Matthew Kosinski
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is social engineering?
Voice: Bryan Clark
Techsplainers thumbnail - what is phishing?
Voice: Bryan Clark | Authors: Matthew Kosinski
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Voice: Bryan Clark | Authors: Matthew Kosinski
Techsplainers thumbnail - Part 2: What is ransomware?
Voice: Bryan Clark | Authors: Matthew Kosinski
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is authentication?
Voice: Bryan Clark | Authors: Matthew Kosinski
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is access management?
Voice: Bryan Clark | Authors: Matthew Kosinski, Jim Holdsworth
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The 2026 Guide to Cybersecurity

AI MLOps

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Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Tim Mucci, Cole Stryker
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Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Tim Mucci, Cole Stryker
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is a machine learning pipeline?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Ivan Belcic, Cole Stryker
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is AI lifecycle management?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Kazuaki Ishizaki
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is model deployment?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Rina Diane Caballar, Cole Stryker
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Voice: Ian Smalley
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is AutoML?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Ivan Belcic, Cole Stryker
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The 2026 Guide to Machine Learning

Generative AI

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Voice: Amanda Downie | Authors: Cole Stryker, Mark Scapicchio
Techsplainers thumbnail - What are large language models (LLMs)?
Voice: Amanda Downie | Authors: Cole Stryker
Techsplainers thumbnail - What are vision language models (VLMs)?
Voice: Amanda Downie
Techsplainers thumbnail - What is retrieval augmented generation (RAG)?
Voice: Amanda Downie | Authors: Ivan Belcic
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Voice: Amanda Downie
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The 2026 Guide to AI Agents

Quantum Computing

Part 1: What is quantum computing?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Josh Schneider, Ian Smalley
Part 2: What is quantum computing?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Josh Schneider, Ian Smalley
Part 3: What is quantum computing?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Josh Schneider, Ian Smalley
Part 1: What is a qubit?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Josh Schneider, Ian Smalley
Part 2: What is a qubit?
Voice: Ian Smalley | Authors: Josh Schneider, Ian Smalley

DevOps

Part 1: What is DevOps?
Voice: Dan Segal | Authors: Gregg Lindemulder, Matthew Kosinski
Part 2: What is DevOps?
Voice: Dan Segal | Authors: Gregg Lindemulder, Matthew Kosinski
What is continuous integration?
Voice: Dan Segal | Authors: Chrystal R. China, Michael Goodwin
What is continuous delivery?
Voice: Dan Segal
What is continuous testing?
Voice: Dan Segal
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The 2026 Guide to DevOps
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