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 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...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com On this episode Razib talks to Jesse Singal , a journalist who has covered the social science beat for the last decade. Singal has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from University of Michigan and a master’s in public affairs from Princeton. Currently a freelance journalist who writes his own Substack, Singal-Minde...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com If you have a sibling with autism, your future child’s risk for an autism diagnosis is increased by a factor of 2 to 3.5× . Orchid’s whole genome embryo reports can help mitigate your child’s risk by screening for over 200 genetic variants definitively linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Discuss yo...