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The Deep Dream State combines conspiracy theory and erotic mind control in a surreal weekly audio drama by Neural Nets and Pretty Patterns.
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you’ve come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guests talk about the biggest ideas in science, ...
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Interviews with scientists and engineers working in Machine Learning and AI, about their journey, insights, and discussion on latest research topics.
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Tech Tomorrow is your front-row seat to the conversations redefining the future. Each episode explores one big question about data, AI, or emerging tech, giving leaders clear, focused answers they can trust. If you're navigating complex innovation, from AI-augmented delivery to sustainability, this show helps you cut through the noise, connect cross-disciplinary trends, and lead with confidence in a rapidly evolving landscape. Previously known as Data Today, this podcast has examined how out ...
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Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
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Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't quite rise to the level of a full solo podcast. And hopefully something uplifting. This year, I offer a short apologia for higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, focusing not on the down-to-earth economic/occupational benefi…
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Season Finale Summary All the pieces on the board. All the players revealed. One final spin. Arouse concludes the Sitri Center arc and completes Deep Dream State’s five-hour narrative exploration of control, desire, and surrender. The staff and subjects of the dream research institute finally confront the true nature of their reality and the system…
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We’re excited to announce that Tech Tomorrow will be extending Season 3 into early 2026. Join host David Elliman for more insightful conversations designed to help you navigate the complex world of emerging technology and make more informed decisions as a leader and decision-maker. You can expect deep dives into topics like AI, cybersecurity, and m…
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Welcome to the December 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the que…
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Sync: Episode Summary At the temple’s center, succubus Nyra weaponizes lucid dreaming protocols against researchers Meg and Tessa. When they think they’ve found Ur, the dream pivots into nested false awakenings, each apparent resolution collapsing into another layer. The structure becomes the meaning: trapped in perpetual false awakenings, characte…
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Down the rabbit hole: Will our secrets survive the quantum computing leap with Dr. Sarah McCarthy
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Quantum computing may feel like a distant part of the future, but many experts believe its widespread adoption could arrive sooner than expected. And with it comes a profound challenge: today’s encryption, which protects global cybersecurity, banking, digital identity, and confidential communication, may no longer be secure. So what happens when qu…
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338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
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The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as it was considered uncouth to hypothesize new particles that could not be detected. Modern physicists have no such scruples, of course, but more importantly neutrinos turn out to be very detectable, given sufficient resources and ex…
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Center: Episode Summary Episode 10 takes listeners into the pretty pattern at the heart of the Sitri Center, where psychological boundaries dissolve. Two researchers discover they are not alone in this space, confronted by a presence that knows their deepest vulnerabilities. The episode explores themes of identity and the mechanisms of psychologica…
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337 | Kevin Zollman on Game Theory, Signals, and Meaning
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Game theory is a way of quantitatively describing what happens any time one thing interacts with another thing, when both things have goals and potential rewards. That's a pretty broad class of interesting events, so it is unsurprising that game theory is a useful way of thinking about everything from international relations to the evolution of pea…
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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 9: Override
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Override: Episode Summary Tessa and Meg uncover a place designed to convert pleasure into data and consciousness into code. They can’t tell if it’s a factory, a temple, or both. Oona has already begun rewiring them for obedience, and the deeper system demands total surrender. The only way out is through – their own selves. Cast & Crew Written & Pro…
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Can executives balance AI innovation with societal responsibility with Lord Clement-Jones
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As artificial intelligence continues to redefine industries, the question isn’t just what we can build, but what we should. In a world of accelerating automation and algorithmic decision-making, can leaders harness innovation without losing public trust? In this episode of Tech Tomorrow, David Elliman speaks with Lord Clement-Jones, Liberal Democra…
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336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI
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Machine learning using neural networks has led to a remarkable leap forward in artificial intelligence, and the technological and social ramifications have been discussed at great length. To understand the origin and nature of this progress, it is useful to dig at least a little bit into the mathematical and algorithmic structures underlying these …
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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 8: Artifact
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ARTIFACT: Episode Summary Meg Aerin and Tessa Finn are trapped in a neuroscience institute designed to break them – and it’s working. They recruit Oona Reyes, a prisoner with rare cognitive abilities, to infiltrate the institute’s deepest chambers. What begins as an escape plan spirals into a ritualistic exploration of ancient mythology woven into …
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Welcome to the November 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the que…
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Will AI and digital twins make animal testing in drug discovery obsolete with Professor Julie Frearson
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AI and digital twins are redrawing the boundaries of drug discovery. Once defined by lab benches, animal studies, and years of trial and error, the field is now embracing virtual methodologies that promise faster, safer, and more precise innovation. But could these technologies ever make animal testing obsolete? In this episode of Tech Tomorrow, Da…
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335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
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Science has an incredibly impressive track record of uncovering nonintuitive ideas about the universe that turn out to be surprisingly accurate. It can be tempting to think of scientific discoveries as being carefully constructed atop a rock-solid foundation. In reality, scientific progress is tentative and fallible. Scientists propose models, assi…
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334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
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The universe as revealed by physics is objective: it's out there, existing and behaving in ways that are completely independent of human thought. But the process by which we learn about the universe, and the language with which we talk about it, is extremely human-dependent. Does that mean that aliens would do science differently, and even think di…
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Episode Summary In “Tether”, the boundaries between discipline, devotion, and discovery blur beyond recognition inside the Sitri Institute. What begins as a study of synchronized dreaming becomes an experiment in control. Meg and Tessa are drawn into the same patterns they once observed, repeating phrases that echo through the walls like incantatio…
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Will the next biotech breakthrough be digital before it’s biological with Bibi Ephraim
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AI is transforming biotechnology from the inside out. What was once a world of petri dishes and pipettes is now increasingly powered by algorithms, models, and digital twins. But as machine learning accelerates drug discovery and reshapes clinical trials, how far can we go before biology itself becomes the follower, not the leader? In this episode …
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333 | Gordon Pennycook on Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them
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Why are people wrong all the time, anyway? Is it because we human beings are too good at being irrational, using our biases and motivated reasoning to convince ourselves of something that isn't quite accurate? Or is it something different -- unmotivated reasoning, or "unthinkingness," an unwillingness to do the cognitive work that most of us are ac…
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Arc 3: Sitri Center – Episode 6: Descendent
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Episode Summary Inside the Sitri Institute, the illusion of control collapses. “Descendent” follows Meg and Tessa as they uncover the Institute’s buried architecture: corridors mapped to ancient cities, rituals replaying through dream loops, and coded panels that speak in tongues older than science. The deeper they trace Lyra’s recordings, the more…
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Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating the learned representations of Generative AI models | Aida Nematzadeh
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Dr. Aida Nematzadeh is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind where her research focused on multimodal AI models. She works on developing evaluation methods and analyze model’s learning abilities to detect failure modes and guide improvements. Before joining DeepMind, she was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and completed her …
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332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
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Music is math that you can dance to. The fact that certain notes sound good when played together, or in succession, is related to the mathematical properties of the frequencies to which they correspond, an idea that goes back as far as Pythagoras himself. These days we have a much more intricate understanding of these relationships and how to manip…
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