Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business. On his podcast, Stephen discusses topics ranging from the history of science to the future of ...
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The Last Theory is an easy-to-follow exploration of what might be the last theory of physics. In 2020, Stephen Wolfram launched the Wolfram Physics Project to find the elusive fundamental theory that explains everything. On The Last Theory podcast, I investigate the implications of Wolfram's ideas and dig into the details of how his universe works. Join me for fresh insights into Wolfram Physics every other week.
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Welcome to the Endeavour Podcast, it's a place for conversations with passionate people, who are endeavouring to learn more about the world and themselves. Hosted by @StephenSchroed
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support
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Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals. (Formerly 'The Jolly Swagman Podcast'.)
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Want to know what comes next in politics, culture, and libertarian ideas? Reason’s Nick Gillespie hosts relentlessly interesting interviews with the activists, artists, authors, entrepreneurs, newsmakers, and politicians who are defining the 21st century.
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In his series "Crazy Wisdom," Stewart Alsop explores cutting-edge topics, particularly in the realm of technology, such as Urbit and artificial intelligence. Alsop embarks on a quest for meaning, engaging with others to expand his own understanding of reality and that of his audience. The topics covered in "Crazy Wisdom" are diverse, ranging from emerging technologies to spirituality, philosophy, and general life experiences. Alsop's unique approach aims to make connections between seemingly ...
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A weekly podcast devoted to the exploration of space, with updates on what is happening in the space flight world as well as looking back at some of the key moments and figures involved with the evolution of space flight. Presented by historian Emily Carney and space nerd Dave Giles. More info: https://www.spaceandthingspodcast.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spaceandthings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Founded in 1968, Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Our podcast offerings include: The Reason Roundtable Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all. The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie Want to know what comes next in politics, cultu ...
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The Cosmic Companion - Astronomy, Space, Technology Advancing Humanity
Exploring the wonders of the Cosmos, one mystery at a time
Astronomy, space, and science news and education delivered in a fun, friendly format! Short form Astronomy Minutes and full-length episodes featuring interviews with some of the top scientists, authors, and developers around the globe! thecosmiccompanion.substack.com
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Every week TWiT hosts talk to the smartest people in the world about the most important topics in technology. Join Leo Laporte and other TWiT hosts for these enlightening one-on-one interviews. Although the show is no longer in regular production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
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To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
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Every week TWiT hosts talk to the smartest people in the world about the most important topics in technology. Join Leo Laporte and other TWiT hosts for these enlightening one-on-one interviews. Although the show is no longer in regular production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [December 29, 2023]
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Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Do we know enough neurobiology to assert that the human brain works differently from a machine learning or artificial intelligence mode…
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Stephen Wolfram Is Ready To Be Surprised by AI
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Stephen Wolfram is, strictly speaking, a high school and college dropout: He left both Eton and Oxford early, citing boredom. At 20, he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Caltech and then joined the faculty in 1979. But he eventually moved away from academia, focusing instead on building a series of popular, powerful, and often epon…
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Algorithms in the Air: Vladimir Osipov on AI's Role in Language Learning and Aviation
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In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop chats with Vladimir Osipov, co-founder of Lingolette, about his journey from hobbyist to professional software developer, his various interests from airsoft to flying small planes, and the impact of AI on software development. They explore the nuances of solid-state physics, language l…
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Future of Science & Technology Q&A (December 22, 2023)
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Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What will "prompt engineering" be like if LLMs are super-intelligent? - Maybe language is stopping us to get some ideas because …
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Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (December 20, 2023)
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Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: How do you handle the pressure of deadlines? Is it better to turn in something rushed/unfinished or complete it fully …
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Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and How to Solve Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)
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Lucy Turnbull is an urbanist, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney, from 2003-4. From 2015-20, she was the inaugural Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, tasked with delivering strategic planning for the whole of metropolitan Sydney. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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STP196 - SpaceX - Elon Musk and the Final Frontier - with Brad Bergan
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SpaceX are the number 1 launch provider in the world currently, and author/journalist Brad Bergan has just released a wonderful book about them called SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier. So we think it’s about time that we have a conversation about SpaceX. Brad Bergan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-bergan/ SpaceX - Elon Musk and …
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Today's guest is maverick journalist Glenn Greenwald, whose work publicizing Edward Snowden's revelations of ubiquitous and illegal surveillance of Americans helped The Guardian win a Pulitzer Prize. Greenwald now hosts the nightly news show System Update on Rumble and maintains an active presence on X (formerly Twitter). Reason's Nick Gillespie an…
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Science Fiction to Reality: The Technologies That Will Shape Our Future
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast! I'm your host, Stewart Alsop, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Ash Jogalekar, a science writer, communicator, and product developer known for his profound insights on the history of science. We connected on Twitter, where I was drawn to his thoughts on various scientific and philosophical topics. O…
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209 - Peter Singer: Controversial Ideas, Utilitarianism, and Animal Liberation
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor Emeritus of Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is among the most influential living philosophers, and among the most influential moral philosophers of the last century. Peter is best known for his work in applied ethics on animal welfare and g…
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The Science and History of The Wizard and The Scholar
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Looking at the science and history behind The Wizard and The Scholar (or, a Rapscallion Runs Amok in Rye), a New Tale of Robin Hood! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecosmiccompanion.substack.com/subscribeBy The Cosmic Companion
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Nellie Bowles: How the Lockdowns Drove Us Crazy
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Today's guest is Nellie Bowles, a co-founder of the immensely popular Substack publication The Free Press, where she writes TGIF, a weekly news roundup that has earned a fanatical following. She's also the author of the new book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, a deeply reported account of how America respond…
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A Bonus Reason Roundtable. Live From Boston!
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Last weekend, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman recorded an episode of The Reason Roundtable in front of a live audience at Reason Weekend in Boston, Massachusetts, with topics centered on both past and future U.S. vice presidents.1:23—President Joe Biden proposes new tariffs on China11:42—Potential Donald…
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Synthetic Data and AI's Future: Insights from Alchemy.ai's John Ballentine
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In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, Stewart Alsop talks with John Ballentine, the founder and CEO of Alchemy.ai. With over seven years of experience in machine learning and large language models (LLMs), John shares insights on synthetic data, the evolution of AI from Google's BERT model to OpenAI's GPT-3, and the future of multimodal algor…
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [December 15, 2023]
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Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Can you tell us some not-widely-known insights about prime numbers? Are the distances between twin primes now quite well known, though?…
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History of Science & Technology Q&A (December 13, 2023)
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Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Can you talk about the history of gazettes, i.e. the recording of "official" information? - Why are some older coins or bills wor…
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Ted Nordhaus: How Bad Is Climate Change?
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How bad is climate change?People are freaked out by climate change, especially young people. Scientists for Nature conducted a survey of 10,000 16- to 25-year-olds in 2021 and found that 59 percent of them were extremely worried or very worried about climate change, and large majorities reported that climate change made them feel sad, anxious, and/…
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STP195 - Winning A Trip To Space - with Dr. Eiman Jahangir
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Over the weekend Blue Origin launched their first crewed mission after nearly two years and today we’re speaking to someone who has won their ticket for one of their future flights. Dr. Eiman Jahangir entered the MoonDAO Ticket To Space raffle and his name was picked out, however, Dr. Jahangir is so much more than a space tourist as you’ll find out…
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Nellie Bowles: How the Lockdowns Drove Us Crazy
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Today's guest is Nellie Bowles, a co-founder of the immensely popular Substack publication The Free Press, where she writes TGIF, a weekly news roundup that has earned a fanatical following. She's also the author of the new book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, a deeply reported account of how America respond…
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Phil Magness: Who Really Pays the Most Taxes?
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How much do billionaires really pay in taxes?"Today, the superrich control a greater share of America's wealth than during the Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers," said Gabriel Zucman in a recent New York Times opinion piece entitled, "It's Time to Tax the Billionaires."Zucman is an economist at the Paris School of Economics and the Universit…
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Stephen Wolfram Readings: Why Does Biological Evolution Work
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Stephen reads a recent blog from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers. Read the blog along with Stephen: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-does-biological-evolution-work-a-minimal-model-for-biological-evolution-and-other-adaptive-processes/ Watch the original livestream on YouTube: https…
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Beyond the Black Box: Exploring the Human Side of AI with Lachlan Phillips
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In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop welcomes Lachlan Phillips, founder of LiveMind AI, for a compelling conversation about the implications of decentralized AI. They discuss the differences between centralized and decentralized systems, the historical context of centralization, and the potential risks and benefits of dis…
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman consider U.S. foreign policy toward Iran in the wake of a helicopter crash that left Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian dead.00:51—Iranian president dies in helicopter crash16:46—Drug Enforcem…
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208 - Victor Davis Hanson: Annihilation, Genocide, and World War III
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Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor was presented the National Humanities Medal i…
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Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (December 6, 2023)
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Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: How do you manage conducting deep/long-term innovation with short-term commercial and funding necessities to keep the …
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Future of Science & Technology Q&A (December 1, 2023)
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Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the future of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Which do you think is more likely, teleportation or time travel? - I'm curious about accurately reconstructing the past using pres…
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STP194 - Reconnaissance Satellites - Who, What and Why? - with Dwayne Day
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In nearly 200 episodes we’ve never had any in depth discussion about the military uses of space, so we’ve decided this is the week. We’re joined by Dwayne Day, a space historian who is an expert on the history of reconnaissance satellites and it’s a fascinating conversation. Dwayne Day: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwayne-day-41983723/ X: …
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Kat Murti: How To End the Drug War for Good
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Today's guest is Kat Murti, the new executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the country's oldest and most influential student group challenging the war on drugs. Before taking the helm at SSDP, Kat was a longtime staffer at the libertarian Cato Institute, a founder of Feminists for Liberty, and an SSDP chapter head at the Un…
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Sean Dadashi: How AI Can Improve Our Mental Health (REPLAY)
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Sean Dadashi is co-founder of Rosebud. Born to Iranian parents who emigrated to the US after the revolution in 1979, Sean grew up in Los Angeles and was on a path of studying mechanical engineering before he switched courses after a year to study Cognitive Science with a minor in Computer Science. He then became a CTO before starting his own compan…
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Campaigns Can’t Get Worse, Can They?
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman conjure up a few changes they'd wish to see in the vain hope of improving U.S. presidential campaigns and consider the Biden administration's threat to cut off arms shipments to Israel.00:35—Desirable presidential campaign reforms23:00…
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Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance
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Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. A bestselling author, his books include The Case Against Education, Open Borders, and Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Deregulation. Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/bryan-caplan-155 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Automate to Innovate: How AI is Reshaping Software Engineering
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In this insightful episode, I, Stewart Alsop, sit down with Eric Rowell to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on software development. We discuss the automation of mundane tasks, the dichotomy of experiences at startups versus large tech companies, and the role of AI in enhancing the educational process for aspiring develo…
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