Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes Leighton Akira Woodhouse back to the podcast for his third visit . Woodhouse is a journalist and documentarian based in Oakland, California. He grew up in Berkeley, and was a doctoral student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. After leaving academia he contributed to ou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Kevin Klatt , a metabolism researcher , dietitian and science communicator . Klatt holds a BA in biological anthropology from Temple University and a PhD in Molecular Nutrition from Cornell University. Before a current appointment as a research scientist at UC Ber...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning , friend of the podcast, Charles Murray returns to chat with Razib again. Murray has been a public intellectual and scholar since the 1970’s. He is the author of Losing Ground , The Bell Curve , Human Accomplishment , Real Education , Coming Apart and What it means to be a liber...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning , Razib talks to Titus Techera , a Romanian living in Budapest, but commenting extensively on American and European culture. He is the Executive Director of the American Cinema Foundation, International Coordinator of the National Conservatism Conference and is a primary contrib...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nathan Lents about his new book, The Sexual Evolution: A Provocative Look at Sexual Behavior Through the Lens of Evolution . A professor at John Jay College in New York City, Lents earned a Ph. D. in Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences in 2004 at Saint Loui...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Daniel McCarthy, editor-in-chief of Modern Age . Former editor-in-chief of The American Conservative , his writing has also appeared in the New York Times , USA Today , The Spectator , The National Interest and Reason . McCarthy also helped run communications for...

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brian Chau , who writes at the From the New World Substack. A graduate of the University of Waterloo and former software engineer with a background in pure mathematics, today Chau is executive director of the Alliance for the Future , a think tank that believes artificial intelligence will transform our world for the better. Chau addresses th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Tade Souaiaia , a statistical geneticist at SUNY Downstate about his new preprint, Striking Departures from Polygenic Architecture in the Tails of Complex Traits . Souaiaia trained as a computational biologist at USC, but also has a background as a division I trac...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid. A native Pennsylvanian of Egyptian ethnic background, and Islamic faith, Hamid completed his Ph. D. in politics at Oxford University. He is an assistant professor at Fuller Seminary , co-host of the Wisdom of Crowds podcast...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Conn Carroll , the author of Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy . Caroll is currently an editor for the Washington Examiner , but previously he was the communications director for Senator Mike Lee of Utah, an assistant directo...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib has a wide-ranging conversation with Dan Hess, the man behind the More Births account on social media. An engineer with a large family in the DC area, Hess’ essays on topics like Israelis’ high birth rate have gained the attention of X, with an account that has come from a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, third-time guest John Hawks returns after two years to discuss what we’ve learned in paleoanthropology since he and Razib last talked. Hawks obtained his PhD under Milford H. Wolpoff , and is currently a professor in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. Hawks has also c...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Three years ago David Mittelman came on Unsupervised Learning to talk about emerging possibilities on the frontiers of genomics, and his new startup at the time, Othram . Since then, Othram’s work has been featured widely in the media, including in a Law & Order episode, and the firm has solved thousands of unsolved ca...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsuperivsed Learning reviews what we know about Indo-Europeans as 2024 comes to a close. This is prompted by a new preprint Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages , which finally establishes that populations in Northern and Southwes...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com This week on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Megan McArdle , author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success and Washington Post columnist and op-ed board member. McArdle was raised in New York City and attended Riverdale Country School. She obtained an undergraduate degree in English from Un...

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning , Razib catches up with Nikolai Yakovenko about the state of AI at the end of 2024. Yakovenko is a former professional poker player ,and 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 given rise to multi-billion dollar companies like Op...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning , Razib talks to Yasha Mounk . The founder of Persuasion , a contributor to The Atlantic and a professor at Johns Hopkins , Mounk now has his own Substack , where he hosts his weekly column and podcast . He is the author of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apar...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today Razib talks to Russian commentator and transhumanist Anatoly Karlin . Karlin has a BA in political economy from U C Berkeley. For most of the 21st century he had positioned himself as part of the right wing of the transhumanist movement. He returned to Russia after living in California’s Bay Area for several year...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib covers the archaeology, genetics and history of the horse. Dogs may be man’s best friend, but for thousands of years horses were humanity’s most valuable domesticate. While pigs, cattle and goat were essential elements of the world’s subsistence economies, the horse...

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Cremieux , a Twitter anon who is regularly retweeted by the likes of Paul Graham, Noah Smith and Elon Musk. A data scientist and statistician, Cremieux specializes in visualizations and analyses that cut to the heart of social and cultural dynamics, from economics to behavior genetics. Cremieux and Razib first discuss the polls and demographi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to returning guest Wilfred Reilly about his new book, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula . Reilly holds a Ph. D. in political science from Southern Illinois and a J.D. from the University of Illinois. R...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes Leighton Akira Woodhouse back to the podcast. Woodhouse is a freelance journalist and a documentary filmmaker, currently based in Oakland, California. He grew up in Berkeley, and was a doctoral student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. After leaving academia he contrib...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Lyman Stone , a soon to be PhD in sociology from McGill University specializing in population dynamics. Stone runs the Pro-natalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies , and has had appointments at AEI, and has written for The Atlantic and The New York...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to the pseudonymous commentator “Peachy Keenan.” A native of Los Angeles with an Ivy League education, Keenan worked in entertainment before detouring into punditry, writing for the Claremont Institute’s The American Mind , appearing on Fox News and penning Domestic...