HeyJaredFirst Principles
First Principles is the podcast that deconstructs the complex, invisible systems shaping our modern world. Ever wonder how a social media algorithm works, how AI really thinks, or how GPS knows your exact location?
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- Sep 29, 2026
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EP76 - The Geometry of Gravity: How 3D Printing Builds the Future One Slice at a Time (opens the original)
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We live in a world where you can click print on a computer and watch a physical, three dimensional object materialize before your eyes. It feels like pure science fiction magic, conjuring matter out of thin air. But what are the hidden rules governing this digital alchemy, and why does the most advanced manufacturing technology on earth still have to answer to gravity? If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
EP75 - The Chip That Feels You: Inside MEMS Motion Sensors (opens the original)
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Descend a spiral parking ramp with every satellite out of sight and your map still traces every curve, as if something above were watching. Nothing is, because a speck of vibrating silicon has been feeling your motion the whole way down. We crack open MEMS motion sensing, from springs holding nanometer breaths to the strange truth that your phone has never felt gravity at all. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
EP74 - Starlink: Ten Thousand Tiny Routers Stitched Across the Sky (opens the original)
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Midway across an ocean, miles from any tower or cable, passengers now join video calls as if the whole sky had gone online overnight. It looks impossible, internet delivered by machines falling permanently around the Earth. This episode tears open satellite internet, from the relay of fast-moving satellites stitching that sky together, to the reason nothing here would work if the network failed to plan around the speed of light itself. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me
EP73 - Direct Air Capture: Wringing Carbon From the Endless Sky (opens the original)
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On a black volcanic field in Iceland, rows of fan-walled machines inhale ordinary air and hand the carbon they extract to the ground, which turns it to stone. It sounds like science fiction, or like an impossible way to clean something as vast as the sky. We crack open direct air capture, from the chemical sponges that snatch one molecule in twenty-five hundred, to the thermodynamic law that guarantees this cleanup will never come cheap. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy
EP72 - Federated Learning: Teaching Machines Without Showing Your Secrets (opens the original)
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Your phone's keyboard has learned your slang, your nicknames, the strange words only your group chat uses, which means some machine somewhere studied your most private typing. Except it didn't have to. We crack open federated learning, the elegant inversion that sends the student to the data instead of the data to the student, and uncover the cryptographic trick that lets a million strangers whisper in perfect chorus while saying nothing alone. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you c
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