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Primer on Fusion Reactors — Bob Mumgaard and Steve...

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2024/02/01

This is a conversation with Bob Mumgaard and Steve Renter, founders of Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So these guys spun out of MIT. An incredible, ambitious, company to figure out how to commercialize fusion, and it's really the first fusion company in the world that has been able to show publicly that they have no new science needed in order to make it work, which is a major milestone. They also published a series of seven papers a couple of years ago now, showing

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LLMs are Superstition – ØF

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2024/01/29

Pablos: So what happens right now in scientific research is, if you're going to do a research study on something, like "are M&Ms is bad for you?" It's impossible to do that study. You have to be very specific and ask a much more fine grained questions like " how many M&Ms does it take to, Kill a mouse?" or to cause a mouse to vomit. You just have to be very specific cause that's something testable. You could test that, you can get multiple mice, you can feed them enough M&M's that they

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Pioneering Computer Graphics & Animation – Richard...

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2024/01/25

Part of what I love about getting to create a podcast like this is sharing conversations I've had with some of these extraordinary people that you just never hear about otherwise or never get to meet. They're working behind the scenes, inventing new technologies that become part of our lives. And they're out of the spotlight. I've been lucky enough to get to know Richard Chuang, who's with us today, because we both served as board members at the University of Silicon Valley, where he is still a

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Whisp Subvocal Input – ØF

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2024/01/21

Pablos: Here's one of the things I think is a critical area of invention that remains unsolved, but it's definitely a part of the future. So if you're using an iPhone anywhere in the world, cultures vary. I've been working with this guy in Venezuela on a project. I text him on WhatsApp and then he replies with a voice memo like every time and so his, culture and worldview is just like talking to the phone and probably because I know Venezuelans do a lot more talking or something. Whereas I

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Coffee & Cement – ØF

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2024/01/16

Pablos: There's this idea that was just published that you could produce concrete and make it stronger by adding charred coffee grounds to the mix. And this is some research out of Australia. So concrete, if it's not obvious, is like the most used material on the entire planet, aside from oil, which we burn. Cement, is in everything, and it's this like staggering scale problem. Partly because of its contribution to greenhouse gases, right? So when you make cement, you're burning some shit to make

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Science Historian — George Dyson

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2024/01/11

I got to know George Dyson 23 years ago. When we started Blue Origin, one of the really cool and unusual things that happened is we hired a historian. We hired George to be there at the beginning and kind of see where this all began. We thought - not just because of hubris - we thought it was such a unique moment in history, to be able to try and make a go at going to space. George had us print shit out and stick it in a box. He said one of the big problems for historians is these days everything's

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Smart Traffic Lights – ØF

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2024/01/08

Pablos: Here's the dumbest thing in the world. You pull up to an intersection, the light is red, there's no one else in sight and you have to sit there and wait for it to turn green. Traffic lights are the dumbest thing in the world. And this is insufferable because right now, if you, if you're in a Tesla, the Tesla knows, Oh, no one's coming from any other direction. It would totally be safe to go, but you can't because the light is red. I think what somebody needs to do is rip the guts out of a

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Samy is My Hero — Samy Kamkar

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2024/01/04

This is probably the conversation I had in mind when I decided to start this podcast. Samy Kamkar is an old buddy of mine, a genius hacker. When you guys hear me praising the minds of hackers and how brilliant they can be and how they think, Samy is the example in my mind that I'm thinking of, and I always love to share him. Samy's famous for having written a computer virus that he was using to meet girls on the internet, which is probably ill-advised. The virus he wrote took over MySpace. It

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Primer on Nuclear Reactors — Nick Touran

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2023/12/15

Today we get to hang out with my buddy Nick Touran. Nick is a nuclear engineer who's focused on the practical deployment of clean, renewable, carbon free energy. I met Nick when we were both working at the Intellectual Ventures Lab. He is on the TerraPower team, and even though we don't discuss the TerraPower reactor, or any of that technology on this episode, Nick and I try to dig into history of nuclear a bit. trying to explain what's possible with nuclear reactors, so people can really

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Helium Airships (Short)

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2022/12/19

Short opinion piece about these helium airships and the need to preserve helium. I think they're cool. But there's a real problem with trying to make a lot of hydrogen next to actual humans and somehow imagine that it's going to be safe. So since then, people have played around with things like blimps and things that don't have passengers and stuff like that. But these things don't, aren't very popular. I have seen a little bit of news lately about this group called Lighter Than Air Research,

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Top Sleep Doctor’s Brain Dump – Michael Breus, Ph.D

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2022/01/23

Sleep is the most natural process that you can do other than breathing. Like breathing, we don't need technology to help us sleep. The reason many people don't sleep is because of what's between their ears – their mental stability, anguish, or stress. Do you fall asleep easily or does the slightest noise wake you up? Dr. Michael Breus, gives me a full brain dump as I try to learn everything I can about sleep in one session. He takes on taboo ideas like polyphasic sleep and the role of nutrition and

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Urban Transportation & the Truth about Garbage —...

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2022/01/16

About two billion people that are going to move into cities by 2050 and with that growth, the demand for efficient transportation is going to increase dramatically. In an era where we’re already seeing inefficiencies in urban mobility having a massive impact on the economy, public health and environmental health, it’s hard to imagine a future of transportation that doesn’t border utter chaos. Cognizant of these projected problems, Assaf Biderman, is working on solutions that harness the power of

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Reimagining Entertainment, Work & Education — Brent...

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2022/01/02

Brent Bushnell is one of the most positive people I know. He's created Two Bit Circusto reimagine how the newest developments in computing technology can shape the future of entertainment, work, education and human interaction. Brent grew up in the house that built Atari and has been a lifelong hands-on maker that brings a prototyping mindset to everything he does. Listen in to this candid and eclectic conversation and learn about the mass of possibilities that we can bring into fruition with just

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Kids Building Dyson Swarms — Levi Hurt

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2021/12/21

Probably whatever you were doing with your life as a kid isn't as cool as building a Dyson swarm. 12 year old Levi Hurt has already decided to devote his life to doing so. Levi is a delightful kid. It will warm your heart to hear his curiosity and excitement about these ideas. Even with my antagonistic questioning, his sense of wonder is infectious.

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Exosomes, Stem Cells, Ketamine & VR — Dr. Melissa...

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2021/09/12

My friend, Dr. Melissa Selinger is a Doctor of Neuropsychopharmacology who has done actual research on using psychedelics and virtual reality for treating things like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. A huge frontier where there are all kinds of potential, and very little actual scientific research has been done here so far. It's an exciting frontier to be able to help a lot of people who we don't have any real idea how to help otherwise. I'm super thrilled about that and the potential for it. It's

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Sex on Demand for Women — Saundra Pelletier

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2021/07/06

There's this kind of pattern you can see sometimes, when you dig behind very successful projects, a lot of times there is some woman who is dead set on making it happen. And for a lot of them, she's working behind the scenes and you don't find out until you get real close, what's really going on. But occasionally you meet these women who are badass leaders that are so dogged that they're going to make something happen by force of will. And I'm always honored to get to meet them. Today we get to

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Diving Deep Into The World Of Computer Hacking &...

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2021/03/24

One of the things I get asked the most about is questions about how to be a hacker and how to learn hacking skills. And I think there's a few people I know who really epitomized what that's all about, and we've had pretty deep journeys and in their lives and their careers about about computer hacking. We talk a lot about the mindset of hackers, which is one of the things I'm super interested in and attracted to. I find to be very helpful way of thinking about things. But you know, when we're

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Into The World Of Genomics And Entrepreneurship —...

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2021/03/17

Today we get to hang out with Adina Mangubat, a friend of mine that I know from a salsa dancing, and also hanging out with computer hackers. She's probably the youngest founder that I know. And she's been running her company for almost a decade since starting it in college at age 22 called Spiral Genetics. It could be considered probably the most advanced bioinformatics technology for population genomics. And what that means is DNA sequencing, massive populations, hundreds of thousands of people,

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Video Games: Optimized Learning Environments — David...

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2021/03/10

David Edery is a buddy of mine who I think you guys are really going to love. Dave is one of the co-founders he's the CEO of Spry Fox,which is a unique game development studio here. They're based here in Seattle, but they have people spread out. They made Alphabear, Steambirds, Triple Town, and Realm of the Mad God. These are games that all together have 50 to a hundred million people playing them worldwide. Dave is a very successful game developer making really delightful games. They're trying

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Building the Right Thing at the Right Time – Jeremy...

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2021/01/22

One of the things I really like to be able to do is go track down some of the friends that I've made over the years who have grown up with technology and grew up with computers as kids hackers, computer programmers, people who eventually became engineers and just pick apart their experience. A lot of us had similar experiences and I think there's a lot that can be learned from that. And sometimes it's just learning that there are parallel experiences that led us into very technical careers. But

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