Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Harvard professor Graham Allison warns that the US-Iran conflict is characterized by extreme strategic uncertainty and driven largely by Netanyahu's long-standing obsession with destroying the Iranian regime, risking a chaotic regime change quagmire despite extraordinary American military success.
Percy Liang reflects on AI's transformation from academic curiosity to global infrastructure, debunking sci-fi misconceptions about capabilities while arguing that academia's role in long-term research and critical evaluation remains essential as the job market shifts away from traditional entry-level software engineering.
This lecture examines AI's economic impact through the lens of supply chains and organizational strategy, demonstrating why understanding compute monopolies, labor market shifts, and corporate decision-making is as critical as tracking algorithmic capabilities.
This lecture argues that AI developers bear unique ethical responsibility for societal outcomes, framing AI as a dual-use technology that requires active steering toward beneficial applications while preventing misuse and accidental harms through rigorous auditing and an ecosystem-aware approach.
This lecture introduces modern language models as industrial-scale systems requiring millions of dollars and trillions of tokens to train, explaining their fundamental operation as auto-regressive next-token predictors that encode language structure through massive statistical modeling.
This lecture introduces First Order Logic as a powerful extension of propositional logic that uses objects, predicates, functions, and quantifiers to compactly represent complex relationships and generalizations without enumerating every possible instance.
This lecture introduces logic as a formal language for knowledge representation and reasoning, contrasting it with probabilistic methods and natural language. It establishes the foundational framework of syntax, semantics, and inference rules, then dives into propositional logic's mechanics including formulas, models, and interpretation functions.
This lecture explains how to learn Bayesian network parameters from fully observed data through simple counting and normalization, while reviewing probabilistic inference methods and d-separation rules for determining conditional independence.
This lecture explains how Bayesian networks compactly represent joint probability distributions through local conditional probabilities, then contrasts inefficient rejection sampling with Gibbs sampling—an MCMC method that iteratively modifies existing samples to satisfy evidence, enabling efficient approximate inference even with rare events.
This lecture transitions from model-free and model-based reinforcement learning to probabilistic reasoning, introducing Bayesian networks as a framework for representing uncertain world states. It establishes probability fundamentals—joint distributions, marginalization, and conditioning—using tensor operations (einops) to provide the mathematical foundation for efficient inference in complex domains.
Andrew Huberman discusses the post-COVID shift toward self-directed healthcare driven by circadian science and supplements, the transformative potential of GLP-1 drugs to potentially eradicate obesity, and the serious risks of unregulated research peptides, while navigating the increasingly polarized political landscape of health information.
Accel's Miles Clements breaks down how to evaluate AI investments using a 'time-to-value versus durability-of-value' framework, defends Cursor's explosive growth against skeptics by highlighting market expansion dynamics, and argues that successful growth investing requires balancing hyper-growth outliers with disciplined vertical SaaS rather than flocking to extremes.