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Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning

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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

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

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

29:55

Lyman Stone: a demographer against the birth dearth

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/10/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Lyman Stone, a soon to be PhD in sociology from McGill University specializing in population dynamics. Stone runs the Pro-natalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and has had appointments at AEI, and has written for The Atlantic and The New York Times. Well known for his social media presence, Stone is a published academic who has explored COVID

22:48

Peachy Keenan: cosmopolitan radical traditionalist

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to the pseudonymous commentator “Peachy Keenan.” A native of Los Angeles with an Ivy League education, Keenan worked in entertainment before detouring into punditry, writing for the Claremont Institute’s The American Mind, appearing on Fox News and penning Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War.Razib and Keenan discuss her peripatetic and

15:09

Jesse Singal: after the replication crisis and into...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/10/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode Razib talks to Jesse Singal, a journalist who has covered the social science beat for the last decade. Singal has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from University of Michigan and a master’s in public affairs from Princeton. Currently a freelance journalist who writes his own Substack, Singal-Minded, and contributes to Blocked and Reported with Katie Herzog, Singal is formerly an editor at New York

29:59

Sam Hammond: I for one welcome our A.I. overlords

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/09/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comIf you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5×. Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss your situation with a genetics expert.On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to economist Sam

29:55

14,000 years of natural selection

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/09/19

30:15

Europe: 40000 BC to 1200 BC

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/09/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comIf you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5×. Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss your situation with a genetics expert.On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the

29:53

Misha Saul: the Antipodean Anglosphere

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/09/08

15:02

Rachel Haywire: the edge of the avant-garde

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2024/08/31

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