Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Razib Khan engages a diverse array of thinkers on all topics under the sun. Genetics, history, and politics. See: http://razib.substack.com/
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Nikolai Yakovenko: the wages of the Hugging Face hack (opens the original)
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Nikolai Yakovenko is back on the podcast because of the Hugging Face hack . Yakovenko is a former professional poker player , and was a 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 driven to prominence companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, and an ecosystem that has birthed hundreds of smaller startups. He is also the founder of DeepNewz , an AI-driven news startu
Werner Zagrebbi: Adventures in Forbidden Data (opens the original)
Collin Hogue-Spears: How AI Works in China (opens the original)
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Today, Razib talks to Collin Hogue-Spears , a cybersecurity and artificial intelligence governance expert with more than 20 years of experience in technology, product management, federal compliance and software security. Hogue-Spears is an independent researcher and the author of From Lab to Life: How AI Works in China . His analysis has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal and Politico . Razib and Hogue-Spears first talk abut China's rapid AI development, driven by provinc
Daniel Di Martino: a Latino immigrant on immigration (and Venezuela) (opens the original)
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On this episode, Razib talks to Daniel Di Martino , a Venezuelan-born economist, speaker, and fellow at the Manhattan Institute , where his research centers on immigration policy, including selection, assimilation, and high-skilled migration. Born in 1999 and raised in Venezuela, he witnessed firsthand the impacts of socialism, including hyperinflation and shortages, which prompted him to immigrate to the United States in 2016. He earned a BA in Quantitative Economics from Indiana University and
Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer: noticing the kakistocracy (opens the original)
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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning we have a double-feature with Richard Hanania and Steve Sailer . Hanania holds a law degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD in political science from UCLA, and was previously a research fellow at Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He founded the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) and writes the popular Substack newsletter Richard Hanania's Newsletter , where he covers politics, foreign policy,
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