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Michael Schmidt

Chief Technology Officer, DataRobot · 1 appearance on the record.

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At Cornell University, Schmidt co-developed Eureqa—a pioneering symbolic regression software for automated scientific discovery—and founded Nutonian in 2012 to commercialize it. Nutonian was acquired in 2017 by enterprise AI platform DataRobot, where he served as Chief Scientist before being appointed CTO to lead research and engineering.

7statements → 5claims → 2claims resolved → 4.29/5average certainty → 1.14/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Michael argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Michael Schmidt's graduate research on symbolic regression was published in Science
“We got published in Science.”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 5:45 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Nutonian's Eureqa software is cited in 80,000 independent peer-reviewed publications
“Seeing all the publications that are coming off where they're citing us in the results, so up to 80,000 independent peer-reviewed, you know, publications where we're directly citing the results of this cutting edge research.”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 3:36 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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0% certainty 4
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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

296 words/min while actually speaking · 15 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Michael Schmidt: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,803 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Michael Schmidt said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Michael Schmidt: Fitting data with complex machine learning models is solved
“So, one interesting thing is it's actually really, really easy to fit data. It's actually, it's quite boring. You know, you have, you know, a really large, complex model. Maybe it's a neural network. Maybe it's a random forest. Or maybe it's just a really larg…”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 9:47 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nutonian's Eureqa software is installed on 50,000 systems across 90 countries
“So we've been installed over, I think we're up to about 50,000 systems now in about 90 countries, and we're growing by about, you know, 1500 new users, new trials of the software per month.”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 3:24 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Contradicted
Nutonian's Eureqa software is cited in 80,000 independent peer-reviewed publications
“Seeing all the publications that are coming off where they're citing us in the results, so up to 80,000 independent peer-reviewed, you know, publications where we're directly citing the results of this cutting edge research.”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 3:36 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Michael Schmidt's graduate research on symbolic regression was published in Science
“We got published in Science.”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 5:45 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nutonian helped the U.S. Air Force detect material cracks 10x faster
“One of our other biggest customers is the Air Force, and this is a case where they do a ton of work trying to detect when failures happen, and there's a lot of things that go into failures, and actually being able to detect when cracks form, microscopic cracks…”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 20:48 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Nutonian represents equations as binary trees in memory for symbolic regression
“We're searching the space of non-linear equations, where we represent these as a binary tree in memory, where every operation is, you know, every node is an operation, like a mathematical operation”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 8:40 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Nutonian's Eureqa software is free for academic research
“If you're academia, you can use it for free, you know, for all your research, and I encourage you guys to do that.”
Michael Schmidt Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 15:24 Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Michael Schmidt, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capit Mar 3, 2014 20m
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