Episodes
Sunday Feb 15, 2015
Artificial Intuition: A Talk with Monica Anderson
Sunday Feb 15, 2015
Sunday Feb 15, 2015
Monica Anderson is CTO and co-founder of Sensai Corporation and founder of Syntience Inc. She has created Industrial grade Model Based (programmed) AI systems for decades but insists that the path to human-like Understanding Machines requires adopting "Model Free Methods" where ALL Models of the Problem Domain are created by the system itself (through learning) instead of relying on limited (and limiting) Models created by programmers. She explains her approach using terms like "Connectome Algorithms", "Artificial Intuition", "Understanding Machines" and "Epistemological AI". She worked for Cisco until 1994 and Google until 2006 and in other companies focused on Natural Language Processing, Document Classification, Web Search, Neural Networks, and Deep Learning. She organized the (SF) Bay Area AI MeetUp for 115 MeetUps over 5 years. Monica Anderson is CTO and co-founder of Sensai Corporation and founder of Syntience Inc. She has created Industrial grade Model Based (programmed) AI systems for decades but insists that the path to human-like Understanding Machines requires adopting "Model Free Methods" where ALL Models of the Problem Domain are created by the system itself (through learning) instead of relying on limited (and limiting) Models created by programmers. She explains her approach using terms like "Connectome Algorithms", "Artificial Intuition", "Understanding Machines" and "Epistemological AI". She worked for Cisco until 1994 and Google until 2006 and in other companies focused on Natural Language Processing, Document Classification, Web Search, Neural Networks, and Deep Learning. She organized the (SF) Bay Area AI MeetUp for 115 MeetUps over 5 years.
Friday Feb 13, 2015
The Foundations of Logic: Sigurd Vojnov and Matthew Craig
Friday Feb 13, 2015
Friday Feb 13, 2015
Here I speak with the beloved father figure of the Foundations of Logic about paradoxes and his budding organization. From their website:
Welcome to the Foundations of Logic! In its present form, the Foundation is an umbrella over many Facebook groups dedicated to the idea that when you bring a large enough variety of diverse individuals together amazing things can happen! The Foundation is a kind of loosely organized chaos and we want to keep it that way! If you're new to the Foundation, we ask that you join the original Foundations of Logic Facebook group --the place where it all began. The Foundation is alive and constantly changing, so make sure to check the site often for the latest developments.
Founded by Sigurd Vojnov and ran by volunteers, the Foundation is currently divided into groups for socializing and the free universiity which is ran and "taught" by its own students. Coming soon, we have Siggish Games, collective text-based games and interactive story-telling scenarios like "The Nemo Scenario", "The Oracle of Delphi", and others.
On the "FOUNDATION GROUPS" page you'll find links and descriptions to all of the groups that are a part of the Foundation. We value socializing, playfulness, learning, diverse opinions, fun, logical argumentation, sharing, and discussion. Different groups have different rules and focuses, so please read the group's description on the site and on Facebook before posting to that group. Although the groups' admins are generally very relaxed, unless otherwise stated in the description no groups allow advertising, spamming, hate speech, ad hominem attacks, or pornography. The admins are in charge of their individual groups and moderate accordingly.
Sunday Jan 04, 2015
A Chat with Dr. Mark Thornton, Austrian Economist
Sunday Jan 04, 2015
Sunday Jan 04, 2015
Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. His publications include The Economics of Prohibition (1991), Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (2004), The Quotable Mises (2005),The Bastiat Collection (2007), An Essay on Economic Theory (2010), and The Bastiat Reader (2014). Dr. Thornton served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. He has served as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas. Mark served as Assistant Superintendent of Banking and economic adviser to Governor Fob James of Alabama (1997-1999), and he was awarded the University Research Award at Columbus State University in 2002. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and received his PhD in economics from Auburn University.
Sadly the recording cut out at the 30 minute mark.
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
A Talk with Maria Konovalenko, Biophysicist and Longevity Researcher
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Maria Konovalenko is a molecular biophysicist and the program coordinator for the Science for Life Extension Foundation. She earned her M.Sc. degree in Molecular Biological Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
She is preparing a cookbook for health enthusiasts who want science to back up their dietary decisions. For more information please visit her blog.
Friday Dec 12, 2014
Strange Economic Creatures: Dan Sullivan, Georgist
Friday Dec 12, 2014
Friday Dec 12, 2014
Dan Sullivan is the director of Saving Communities and president of the Council of Georgist Organizations. For over 35 years he has been making presentations around the world on both the theory and practical applications of Georgism, has been instrumental in winning shifts to land value tax in Pittsburgh and other Western Pennsylvania cities, and has been featured in newspapers and major magazines, including *Fortune.*
"Sullivan has made several studies of the financial impact of higher land taxes on property owners, and speaks at meetings of Pittsburgh neighborhood and business groups to spread the incentive-tax doctrine. Such efforts are crucial. Few people, even among public officials and real estate executives, understand the nature of the tax and its economic ripples." - Gurney Breckenfeld, real estate editor, *Fortune*, August 8, 1983
“Dan Sullivan knows more about tax economics than anyone I know.”
- Jack Wagner, Pennsylvania Auditor General
“Dan Sullivan is a competent advocate for the taxpaying public.” - Congressman William Coyne
“Dan Sullivan has a way of slicing through baloney that a deli manager would envy.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Columnist Brian O'Neill
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Strange Economic Creatures: Jesse Myerson, Communist
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Jesse Myerson is a writer and activist from New York. He Tweets @JAMyerson and co-hosts Disorderly Conduct: http://tarbellnyc.com/discon
His articles can be found here:
http://www.salon.com/writer/jesse_myerson/
And here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/jesse-myerson
Saturday Dec 06, 2014
Strange Economic Creatures: Dr. Fred Foldvary, Geo-Austrian
Saturday Dec 06, 2014
Saturday Dec 06, 2014
The man who correctly predicted the nature and year of the monumental crash of 2008...back in 1997. Fred E. Foldvary received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. He has taught economics at the Latvian University of Agriculture, Virginia Tech, John F. Kennedy University, California State University East Bay, the University of California at Berkeley Extension, Santa Clara University, and currently at San Jose State University. Foldvary is the author of The Soul of Liberty, Public Goods and Private Communities, Dictionary of Free Market Economics . He edited and contributed to Beyond Neoclassical Economics and, with Dan Klein, The Half-Life of Policy Rationales. Foldvary's areas of research include public finance, governance, ethical philosophy, and land economics. Fred married Gloria in July 2012. They and their cat live in the Los Gatos mountains in California. |
Thursday Nov 27, 2014
Interview with Dr. Peter Glassman
Thursday Nov 27, 2014
Thursday Nov 27, 2014
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Dr. Glassman and I talk about the life and ideas of John Stuart Mill, arguably the most influential Western intellectual of the 19th century. His book was one of the sources I drew from for my documentary on Mill.
Dr. Peter J. Glassman is an educator and author who has worked extensively in early childhood, elementary, and post-secondary education in North America, Europe, and Asia. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Peter has a unique background in China.
Since 1982 he has taught in China’s leading universities with the title Permanent Visiting Professor of Culture by appointment of the State Education Commission. He also serves as the Founder & President of the Sino- American Education Council, a private alliance of university presidents and heads of private schools in China and North America. Peter has formed close friendships with numerous senior leaders in China’s government, business, and finance sectors.
Under their sponsorship he travels widely throughout China, and has been given exceptional access to the nation’s political, economic, and sociological environments. He consults in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia on issues concerning education, cross-cultural communication, management, and strategic affairs for government and business groups.
Peter is the author of three previous books, and numerous essays on human creativity and society. His electronic collection of essays on social and cultural affairs, Mind In The Modern World [ www.peterglassman.net], has a rapidly growing worldwide audience. The site now draws an average of 1000+ readers per day. Peter received his Ph.D. degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Wednesday Nov 26, 2014
Interview with Michael Wheeler
Wednesday Nov 26, 2014
Wednesday Nov 26, 2014
An interview with Michael Wheeler.
In the year 2515, the last of us, the last of humanity... is facing the constant threat of extinction. The only hope... are roaches.
Thus begins the saga of ROACH GUARD. A team of evolved cockroaches protecting humanity in an underground society, from annihilation from Above.
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NITE is an up-coming urban dark fantasy comic book series.
Carmine DePalo was a made man. He had it all. Money. Women. Access to vast resources. More homes than most Hollywood stars. All due to a dark, deadly secret. He was most prolific and deadly mercenary and assassin in history. Yet, with all his fortune and fame, he had found himself on a lonely road. He came to be an emotionally charged hothead with a death wish. Then he started to hear... voices. Haunting him.
These voices became more and more aggressive and ruined his life, as it was. When he was trying to terminate a mark. When he was in the middle of a meeting with the kingpins of the six boroughs. When he was having an entertaining night with the twins... Just when he was about to take a nose dive off of one of the city's oldest bridges, Evelyn Chianti appeared before him. This is strangely odd, because he killed her five years prior.
Even more odd because she was floating in mid air. She's a fine piece of work, for a dead woman. A nosey investigative reporter, the Capo De Nostra believed she learned too much, was saying too much and needed to be silenced. DePalo executed her. She gave him a proposition that he could not refuse. Carmine DePalo now works for the dead. If he wants to have any chance at a peaceful afterlife, he has to help his victims find theirs. NITE has plenty of work to do.
Saturday Nov 22, 2014
Strange Economic Creatures: Dr. Louis-Philippe Rochon, Post-Keynesian
Saturday Nov 22, 2014
Saturday Nov 22, 2014
Louis-Philippe Rochon is an Associate Professor of Economics, at Laurentian University, in Canada, where he is Director of the International Economic Policy Institute. He is the founding co-editor of the Review of Keynesian Economics, and co-diretor of New Directions in Post-Keynesian Economics, a book series at Edward Elgar. He is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Political Economy, Ola Financiera, and the Problemas del Desarrollo, Revista Latinoamericana d'Economia.
He has written over 100 articles, and written or edited more than 16 books. His areas of research include monetary theory and policy, financialization, and post-Keynesian economics.
He has been a Visiting Scholar or Professor in Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy and Australia. His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), the Ford Foundation, the Mott Foundation, and the European Parliament.