Computer scientists

Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later. In this episode, a16z Cofounder Ben Horowitz and General Partner Erik Torenberg sit down with Sam to discuss the core thesis behind OpenAI’s disparate bets, why they released S

In this episode Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, discusses his view of the universe as a computational system. We examine computational irreducibility, discrete space, multi‑way evolution, and how observers shape physical laws from thermodynamics to quantum mechanics. Wolfram also conne

The inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, flicks through his book This Is For Everyone. Neuroscientist & bestselling author Dr Tara Swart tells us all about her new book, The Signs. The delightful Davina McCall joins us for the third time as Chris had 'interviewers regret'! Join Chris and the Class Behind

Dr. Gavin Wood drops in on The Kus to discuss his latest musings on DOT Capped & Stepped supply and Fiscal Responsibility for the Polkadot Ecosystem!

In this episode, Cal Newport explains slow productivity and how to do less, focus more, and not burn out. Cal argues, our obsession with busyness is pseudo-productivity and while it may look like progress, it isn’t. In his new book, Slow Productivity, he shows how we can accomplish more by doing less with focus and int

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/yt to win a meteorite 💥 Why aren't whales building rockets? They have bigger brains than we do after all. In this episode with Stephen Wolfram, we talk about why more brainpower doesn't always mean more understanding, and how neural architecture faces physic