#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness Travis Stevens is the 2016 Olympic Judo silver medalist and BJJ black belt. Please support this podcast by […]

#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition Jay McClelland is a cognitive scientist at Stanford. Please support this podcast by checking out […]

#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to solve common-sense […]

#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11 Niels Jorgensen is a former New York firefighter for over 21 years, who was there at Ground Zero […]

#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life Donald Knuth is a computer scientist, Turing Award winner, father of algorithm analysis, […]

#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, artist, author, and founder of the field […]

#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics Rodney Brooks is a roboticist, former head of CSAIL at MIT, and co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Robust.AI. Please support […]

#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines Vincent Racaniello is a virologist, immunologist, and microbiologist at Columbia. He is a co-author of the textbook […]

#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI Wojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI. Please support this podcast by checking out our […]

#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science Jed Buchwald is a historian and philosopher of science at Caltech. Please support this podcast by […]

#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built Barry Barish is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and the winner of the Nobel Prize in […]

#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by […]

#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics Brian Muraresku is the author of The Immortality Key. Please support this podcast by checking out our […]

#210 – Matt Walker: Sleep Matt Walker is a sleep scientist at Berkeley, author of Why We Sleep, and the host of a new podcast called The Matt Walker Podcast. Please […]

#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers Luis and Joao Batalha are co-founders of Fermat’s Library. Please support this podcast b […]

#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence Jeff Hawkins is a neuroscientist and cofounder of Numenta, a neuroscience research company. Please […]

#207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength Chris Duffin is a strength athlete, coach, and engineer, setting multiple strength world records including squatting […]

#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision Ishan Misra is a research scientist at FAIR working on self-supervised visual learning. Please […]

#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running Zach Bitter is an ultramarathon runner and coach. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Ladder: h […]

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory Cumrun Vafa is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Headspace: h […]