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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

Posted January 14, 2020 • 01:19:09

Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and...

Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics

Posted January 7, 2020 • 01:03:12

Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain...

Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

Posted January 3, 2020 • 01:37:49

Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet history....

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

Posted December 30, 2019 • 01:46:13

Donald Knuth is one of the greatest and most impactful computer scientists and mathematicians ever. He is the recipient in 1974 of the Turing Award,...

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

Posted December 28, 2019 • 01:53:07

Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute. She has worked on...