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30:00

Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/02/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Titus Techera, a Romanian living in Budapest, but commenting extensively on American and European culture. He is the Executive Director of the American Cinema Foundation, International Coordinator of the National Conservatism Conference and is a primary contributor to the Substack PostModernConservative. Techera also hosts a podcast for the American Cinema

20:01

Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/02/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nathan Lents about his new book, The Sexual Evolution: A Provocative Look at Sexual Behavior Through the Lens of Evolution. A professor at John Jay College in New York City, Lents earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences in 2004 at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and did his postdoctoral fellowship in cancer genomics at NYU Medical

20:03

Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Daniel McCarthy, editor-in-chief of Modern Age. Former editor-in-chief of The American Conservative, his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The Spectator, The National Interest and Reason. McCarthy also helped run communications for the 2008 Ron Paul campaign and was a senior editor at ISI Books. He earned a Ph.D. in classics from Washington

51:52

Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/28

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brian Chau, who writes at the From the New World Substack. A graduate of the University of Waterloo and former software engineer with a background in pure mathematics, today Chau is executive director of the Alliance for the Future, a think tank that believes artificial intelligence will transform our world for the better.Chau addresses the great “doomer vs. anti-doomer” debate, and argues for an anti-catastrosophist position. He also makes the

19:59

Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Tade Souaiaia, a statistical geneticist at SUNY Downstate about his new preprint, Striking Departures from Polygenic Architecture in the Tails of Complex Traits. Souaiaia trained as a computational biologist at USC, but also has a background as a division I track and field athlete.Razib and Souaiaia discuss what “genetic architecture” means, and consider what we're

30:11

Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid. A native Pennsylvanian of Egyptian ethnic background, and Islamic faith, Hamid completed his Ph.D. in politics at Oxford University. He is an assistant professor at Fuller Seminary, co-host of the Wisdom of Crowds podcast and website, and now the author of his own Substack and a recent book, The Problem of Democracy: America,

30:02

Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/01/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Conn Carroll, the author of Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy. Caroll is currently an editor for the Washington Examiner, but previously he was the communications director for Senator Mike Lee of Utah, an assistant director at the Heritage Foundation, White House correspondent for Townhall.com and a reporter at National Journal

22:52

Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later

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2025/01/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comSpecial note - 2025 Early Bird sale going nowLock in a lifetime low annual rate on Unsupervised Learning. Through 11:59pm, January 2 (CST), $50/year. January 3: $55/year. January 4: $60/year. Regular price is $79/year. This is one of only two annual discounts I offer. Thank you for supporting in-depth science writing!Feel free to add more in the comments.Today Razib talks to Antonio Regalado, reporter at MIT Technology

45:06

Dan Hess: the fertility collapse

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/12/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib has a wide-ranging conversation with Dan Hess, the man behind the More Births account on social media. An engineer with a large family in the DC area, Hess’ essays on topics like Israelis’ high birth rate have gained the attention of X, with an account that has come from a few hundred followers to more than 30,000 in 2 years.Razib and Hess first review the birth-rate collapse

30:04

John Hawks: 2024 in Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits

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2024/12/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, third-time guest John Hawks returns after two years to discuss what we’ve learned in paleoanthropology since he and Razib last talked. Hawks obtained his PhD under Milford H. Wolpoff, and is currently a professor in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. Hawks has also co-authored Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human

14:57

David Mittelman: pushing the genomic frontier in 2024

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/12/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comThree years ago David Mittelman came on Unsupervised Learning to talk about emerging possibilities on the frontiers of genomics, and his new startup at the time, Othram. Since then, Othram’s work has been featured widely in the media, including in a Law & Order episode, and the firm has solved thousands of unsolved cases, with nearly 500 public. For over a decade, Mittelman has been at the forefront of private-sector

20:00

In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/12/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsuperivsed Learning reviews what we know about Indo-Europeans as 2024 comes to a close. This is prompted by a new preprint Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages, which finally establishes that populations in Northern and Southwestern Europe derived from a different steppe-origin population than the Greeks and Ilyrians of the Balkans,

30:00

Megan McArdle: American food culture, artisanal to...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/11/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comThis week on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Megan McArdle, author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success and Washington Post columnist and op-ed board member. McArdle was raised in New York City and attended Riverdale Country School. She obtained an undergraduate degree in English from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago. A pioneering blogger based out of New

66:47

Nikolai Yakovenko: the Singularity is not here

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/11/22

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib catches up with Nikolai Yakovenko about the state of AI at the end of 2024. Yakovenko is a former professional poker player,and research scientist at Google, Twitter and Nvidia. With a decade in computer science, Yakovenko has been at the forefront of the large-language-model revolution that has given rise to multi-billion dollar companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity and hundreds of smaller startups. Currently, he is the CEO of DeepNewz, an

30:02

Yascha Mounk: American democracy in 2024

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/11/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Yasha Mounk. The founder of Persuasion, a contributor to The Atlantic and a professor at Johns Hopkins, Mounk now has his own Substack, where he hosts his weekly column and podcast. He is the author of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It and The

25:03

Anatoly Karlin: Russian nationalism to American...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/11/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday Razib talks to Russian commentator and transhumanist Anatoly Karlin. Karlin has a BA in political economy from U C Berkeley. For most of the 21st century he had positioned himself as part of the right wing of the transhumanist movement. He returned to Russia after living in California’s Bay Area for several years, and from there he promoted a nationalistic vision in opposition to American military and cultural

24:47

The Horse: Man's Most Useful Companion

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/11/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib covers the archaeology, genetics and history of the horse. Dogs may be man’s best friend, but for thousands of years horses were humanity’s most valuable domesticate. While pigs, cattle and goat were essential elements of the world’s subsistence economies, the horse in its military roles was a luxury good, with Chinese emperors sending delegations to Central Asia in

58:54

Crémieux Recueil: US election 2024 analysis

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/11/07

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Cremieux, a Twitter anon who is regularly retweeted by the likes of Paul Graham, Noah Smith and Elon Musk. A data scientist and statistician, Cremieux specializes in visualizations and analyses that cut to the heart of social and cultural dynamics, from economics to behavior genetics. Cremieux and Razib first discuss the polls and demographic results of the 2024 election, in which Donald Trump seems to have made broad-based gains across all

19:59

Wilfred Reilly: confronting historical myths...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/11/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to returning guest Wilfred Reilly about his new book, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula. Reilly holds a Ph.D. in political science from Southern Illinois and a J.D. from the University of Illinois. Raised in a working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, he worked in the private sector before his

30:01

Leighton Woodhouse: chaos and corruption in urban...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/10/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes Leighton Akira Woodhouse back to the podcast. Woodhouse is a freelance journalist and a documentary filmmaker, currently based in Oakland, California. He grew up in Berkeley, and was a doctoral student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. After leaving academia he contributed to outlets like The Intercept and The Nation, before starting his own Substack, Social Studies, as

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