85. Actor Scott Foley: One Year Later (Quarantine Creatives)

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Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying math that powers modern machine learning to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives, even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…

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Actor Scott Foley was the first guest ever on Quarantine Creatives. He joins Heath to mark the one year anniversary of the podcast and reflect on all that has happened since May, 2020. Scott chats about RVing across the country with his family, hosting and judging Ellen's Next Great Designer for HBOMax, his own interest in furniture design, and shooting a pilot for The Big Leap on Fox, which took more than year to complete because of COVID.

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134. Author and Activist Ashley Fairbanks on Indigenous Lands 46:49

18 weeks назад46:49

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Ashley Fairbanks is an Indigenous author, artist, and activist. Ashley is Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation. She was raised in Minnesota and now lives in Texas. Her new children’s book This Land: The History of the Land We’re On serves as a great jumping off point for early readers, older kids, and even adults to begin to question who used to live on the land that today makes up the U.S. and Canada. Ashley joins Heath to discuss keeping Native American experiences in the present tense, reconnecting with native lands across the world, and reframing environmental activism. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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133. Farah Assi On Being Lebanese During a Genocide 59:37

21 weeks назад59:37

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Farah Assi was born in Southern Lebanon under Israeli occupation. Her family fled to Canada for some of her childhood, but returned to Lebanon during her teenage years. Farah’s father and extended family are still living in Southern Lebanon, often a few hundred yards from the sites of bombings. In this conversation, she shares about her childhood memories of Lebanon, her experience as a refugee, the emotions that come from watching her people murdered from afar, and the strong desire she has to return home. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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132. Author Audrea Lim Examines our Relationships to Land 45:10

23 weeks назад45:10

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Audrea Lim is the author of Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos . The issues of climate change, gentrification, racial inequity, and corporate greed are often treated as unrelated issues, but Audrea argues that they all share a common root: the commodification of land. She not only looks at how the American system of private property ownership has been destructive, but also explores alternatives. Some of these include looking back to original Indigenous practices around land management and stewardship, while others look at models like community land trusts, public housing, and public parks. Audrea’s work looks at rural solutions in places like the Canadian tar sands as well as urban solutions in cities like New York and Minneapolis. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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131. Podcaster Akilah Hughes Investigates Rebel High Schools 1:00:34

25 weeks назад1:00:34

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Akilah Hughes is a comedian, author, and podcast host, known for her book Obviously: Stories from My Timeline , her YouTube channel , her amazing Twitter/X and Instagram feeds , and her nearly two year run hosting the daily news podcast What a Day for Crooked Media from 2019-2021. Akilah's latest podcast Rebel Spirit , investigates the history of how her high school in Northern Kentucky came to adopt the Rebel team name and Confederate symbols in the 1950s and retains the name to this day. In the show, Akilah travels home on a mission to remake the Rebels into the Boone County Biscuits. Akilah joins Heath to share some stories about their shared Rebel experiences and discuss the challenges with making even small, incremental changes. They also talk about larger diversity and inclusion efforts, including navigating enjoying a visit to Disney Parks while also acknowledging the harmful narratives at play. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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130. Author Austin Frerick on the Barons that Control Our Food 50:40

27 weeks назад50:40

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Author Austin Frerick's new book Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry looks at seven sectors of the American food system, profiling the company that dominates each of those markets. Some are familiar names like Cargill, Wal-Mart, and Driscoll’s. Others are foreign companies or giant conglomerates that are hardly household names but which still exert massive control over how we eat. Perhaps the most surprising revelation in the book is just how much has changed and consolidated in the last two decades. A native of Iowa, Austin also shares personal anecdotes throughout the book of how he has seen the landscapes and towns of his childhood shaped by the consolidation of our food markets. Austin has advised candidates Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg on agricultural policy before ultimately serving as Co-Chair of the Biden campaign’s Agriculture Antitrust Policy Committee. He is a Fellow of the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University, an initiative that brings together faculty, students, and scholars to collaborate on research related to competition policy and antitrust enforcement. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Common Good Iowa as Vice President and the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project as Treasurer. In 2022, The Advocate named him a " Champion of Pride .” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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129. Author J.B. MacKinnon on Stopping Shopping 50:54

29 weeks назад50:54

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J.B. MacKinnon is a Vancouver-based author, journalist, and professor. His book The Day the World Stops Shopping operates on a simple thesis: gaming out how society, economies, and our lives would change if consumer culture disappeared overnight. When the global pandemic shutdown happened in 2020, suddenly the thesis had a real world example. J.B. joins Heath to discuss intentional consumerism inspired by Indigenous people in the Kalahari and Amish Pennsylvanians, consuming quality over quantity, and the simple pleasures of eating seasonally. J.B. is also the author of books right in the bullseye of this podcast and newsletter, including The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating and The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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128. Writer Amanda Gelender Deconstructs Zionism 44:37

31 weeks назад44:37

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Amanda Gelender is an American Jewish writer and poet currently based in the Netherlands. Amanda was raised in a progressive Jewish community, yet she was still only taught some of the truth about Israel and Palestine. It wasn’t until college that Amanda began to deconstruct what she had been taught and question her Zionist education. Amanda joins Heath to discuss how Zionsim differs from Judaism, understanding the current genocide in Palestine, and her own learning process over the last twenty years. For more learning and information from today’s conversation, Amanda provided these additional links: On the work of Dr. Mohamed Abou Abdaljawad Omar's talk entitled, "Germany, Zionism, and the Politics of Debt" Susan Abulhawa’s piece on the number of people killed in Gaza Lancet report on killed in Gaza On systemic hospital and medical destruction On Israel’s torture concentration camps Israeli tree-planting as colonization in occupied Palestine This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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127. Author Tracie McMillan on "The White Bonus" 49:19

33 weeks назад49:19

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Tracie McMillan is a journalist and author of the new book The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America . In the book, Tracie charts her own family’s history, plus follows the stories of four other white American families, to see how explicit government policies and implicit biases have led to massive amounts of wealth for white Americans. Tracie joins Heath to discuss her writing process in researching the book, why it’s so difficult for white people to acknowledge this bonus, and what it might take to reverse course. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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126. Content Creator Jenan Matari on the Palestinian-American Experience 52:26

37 weeks назад52:26

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Jenan Matari is a Palestinian-American content creator known for her popular Instagram page . She has amassed a large audience with her videos that explain the struggle of Palestinians before and since October 7. Jenan joins Heath to discuss the challenges of teaching children about a genocide, navigating capitalism, and what it means to have deep ties to the land. She also chats about her own upbringing, which de-emphasized her Palestinian roots. And Jenan helps connect the dots, showing how Palestine is at the intersection of so many other social and environmental crises facing our planet. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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125. Author Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn on the Story of Chinese-Americans 53:45

39 weeks назад53:45

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Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn is an author, educator, and speaker. She is the author of the new young reader book Exclusion and the Chinese American Story , part of the Race to the Truth series . In the book, Sarah dives into the histories of Chinese Americans who contributed to the gold rush, the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, and sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta, while also looking at stories of discrimination and racism surrounding laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. She joins Heath to discuss her research process, her upbringing as a mixed race child in several countries, her life as an Asian-American adult in Mississippi, and the philosophy behind her time as a classroom teacher. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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124. Dennis Kucinich on Gaza, Ohio, and Politics 51:04

43 weeks назад51:04

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Dennis Kucinich is an Ohio politician who has served as Cleveland city councilor, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio state senator, and U.S. representative from 1997-2013. He was a presidential candidate in the democratic primary in 2004 and 2008. He is currently running for U.S. representative for Ohio’s 7th district as an independent. Dennis joins Heath to discuss the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, how Palestine is connected to U.S. politics, the evolution of Ohio's political scene, and boyhood memories of the Racela family. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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123. Reporter Sarah McCammon on Leaving the White Evangelical Church 51:03

45 weeks назад51:03

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Sarah McCammon is NPR national political correspondent, co-host of The NPR Politics Podcast, and covered the 2016 Trump campaign for the White House . Her new book The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church chronicles her personal faith journey, and similar paths of former Evangelicals who have since parted ways with the church. She joins Heath to discuss her upbringing in the white Evangelical church, what caused her to question what she was taught as a child, and the intersection of white Evangelicals and Trumpism. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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122. Author Richard Rothstein on America's Deliberate Segregation 55:00

47 weeks назад55:00

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Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America and Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law , which he cowrote with his daughter Leah Rothstein. Richard joins Heath to discuss some of the historical background of how we became such a segregated country, how this racism affected everything from household wealth to health to school performance, and how to take action to repair the damage of this segregation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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121. Reporter Sarah Mock on American Agriculture 50:52

51 weeks назад50:52

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Sarah Mock is a seasoned agricultural reporter and author of two books: Farm (and Other F Words): The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm and Big Team Farms: Growing Farms Differently . She is also the host and producer of the new podcast from Ambrook Research: The Only Thing That Lasts . Sarah was raised on a farm in Wyoming and has had agriculture in her blood from an early age. But she’s also quick to dispel the myths around the American farm and farmers. Sarah joins Heath to separate fact from fiction about American farms, look at the social justice issues around farming, and describe her process as a podcast producer. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathracela.substack.com…

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120. Designer Francisca Gajardo on Fixing the Fashion Industry's Waste 50:44

1 year назад50:44