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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 mathematical concepts that power 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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Adultery may soon be legal in NY... pig kidneys into humans and books with human skin covers... what "deconfliction" means in a war zone ... lethal Cessnas and beards and hipster mustaches in the military, including ultra-orthodox ones... Ace and Perri being stared at in London, but loved by cabbies... nobody cares about gay marriage (and that's a good thing) but we should care that we almost all got hacked... Richmond driving (that's a bad thing) and a reminder that Easter is a moveable feast it "transitions" according to the cycles of the moon.

This one's probably not safe for home if the kids are around.

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Saltbollocks

Envoy Recorded Radio

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This one's probably not safe for home if the kids are around.

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Telling Your Dishes It's Bath Time 42:24

12 дней назад42:24

42:24

Show Notes: Swallowed by a Humpback whale Canadian bluff calling DarkSky International - The supervillain we didn’t know we needed If success is a recurring cycle, is there a *wrong* time to wish someone congratulations? South African bloke savings ? Volcells vs Incels World history. NYT Flashback. I don't know shit about India except through the lens of colonialism. Ye said he would never sell swastika shirts… then Are NGOs NGOs if they need government funding? The mesmerizing video of how locks work : Single serving bags of tortilla chips Xoox hits the road in Vegas Let’s talk privacy follow this link at your own risk “Dotted line” - reporting lines Thinking about core function, uncomfortably . I love these so much…

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Hypocrisy Central 53:34

5 weeks назад53:34

53:34

Ye Olde Body Shoppe. Spring before the Spring. Visiting The Throne in DC . Involuntary Sponsor: The GMC McKinley Truck . Lightly fried USB drives . Gulf of Peking? Adam Smith , Import Taxes, untouched DEI programs (inc golf handicaps). How Zone Flooding works. Choosing not to listen. Hypocrisy Central. Lying vs. Bullsh**ting. Prickly South Africans. Metaposturing. Welcome to Cleveland (in Milwaukee). Gail.com is the best page on the internet. GIUK Gap. 3 Star reviews are the best. Nuclear power to run AI . SikhDeep. The Parade of Planets and Cleo Abram and Morons . Exoskeletons for Mass Market . Time blindness: sharks, Saturn, Cleopatra, iPhones, and dinosaurs.…

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Enshittification 52:05

6 weeks назад52:05

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This week... We're rebooting the year in February. Science meets proclamations. Denali denial. American imperialism at last? Avoiding rage exhaustion. Facial misrecognition. Elderly disguised as Japanese robots . The least biased people the most biased? Out conspiracying the conspiracy. Ace style vs. team colors.…

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Hump View 52:12

9 weeks назад52:12

52:12

Taking Dry January a little too literally in Richmond, VA. Artisanal cisterns. President Carter & free can openers. Celebrating closing kids camps . Fartlek on your resolutions. Meta giving up on facts. But cheering on those trying to be rational on FB neighborhood groups. The optics of congestion charging (don't tread on my EZ pass, ANPR ). Solar fly-bys (without notes). Terrorism vs self-immolation protest. Defending Greenland with the King's Shield . Watch: Conclave , Joy . Listen: How Christianity Remade the World Virginia flag flying over South Korea . Heartbreaking stowaways . Living in the shopping mall . Camel botox and humpview .…

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Gruntled and Whelmed - The Holiday Special? 1:11:13

11 weeks назад1:11:13

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This week... Three guys, three black cars, nervous neighbors. Ace's uber-smart clients. Pentagonal Christmas. Smokey bears wandering DC. National Park Service rules for life. Cougars in Alberta. Meanwhile in Virginia... Men shoot bear in tree, bear falls on man, man dies . Share the love, skip a meal out, share the meal . The racism segment. Stanley's People on a Plane (Tucci, again). Oxford's word of the year: Brain-Rot - what it means and are the Aussie's right ? ERR's words of the year: Whelmed, Gruntled and Arm-Brainy. Breakie, Dinner, Tea, Supper, delivered by Dinner Nannies. Pointless parades. The new innovation: an iPod . The great bundling of the unbundling: enforced, pricey love, actually. End of an Eras and Elton's hourly rate. Ideal AV teams (event planners take note). Dive, dive! Tie-Fighters over New Jersey . Let's not send special forces to Mexico . Ameliorating your own bumper sticker vote. Gossip guy. xoxo Non-Whiney Doves and irredeemable friends. Nobody wants the musical whale . Free Ace. Tourist, Traveler, or Pilgrim? Small batch artisanal meth. Clearly pointless. National Perri Radio, through AirPods. Amazon on strike . Order now...? Faceplanting on bagels. Sadness days - we're not talking about it. Life swap for gratitude, in white jeans. The good Father Christmas.…

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Yogi The Insurance Fraudster 1:10:51

14 weeks назад1:10:51

1:10:51

This week... Boys with shiny objects. Did Jag make a mistake with its ad ? Depends on its goals . Stretchable cabins Faking polygraphs. Do electric vehicles need to ugly? Coasting through Rhode Island. Casino people and Brown people. Holiday tip: Interview your table mate . Home run distances. Yogi the insurance fraudster . Balloon Slacklining . Robot Secret Service Dogs . Eyes, Ears, Mouth: The Big Dig ; The Diplomat ; Neil Gaiman . DEA Dosh. Oakland isn't San Francisco . Self driving cars... .maybe we just pay someone to drive? Shortening the line city in the desert . 3D printed pants . Coco Critiques Hot shower with Jimmy Carr and sleeping with Trevor Noah…

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Tucci Feely 49:34

16 weeks назад49:34

49:34

Daddy Issues Wicked Links Fried Salads McFlurry of Papers Restaurants in Your House Woody Wagon Plane Ladders & Carpet Baggers Perriscope on Telescope Normalising Chat Generals Not Specialists

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Honky Tonk Spacemen (the Raw Dog Edition) 46:30

23 weeks назад46:30

46:30

Beautiful Babies in Richmond and Scary Babies in Northern England Running for office with your friend's family ? Where might 23&Me sell you DNA? Strange cellmates - Sean Combs & Sam Bankman Fried 42 states don't matter. Great Concept, Bad Execution If you could go back to the beginning of your life and capture one complete dataset related to your life, what would it be? Champagne Super Pricing Raw Dogging, Sigh Conservative Tesla driving and giga trains, that are just, erm, trains. Building things, let's do that again. Converting for construction, defining time . The Tiffany Effect You tend to shout louder in the places you feel comfortable.…

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Hover-Queuing for the Diplomatic Sauna 1:00:14

27 weeks назад1:00:14

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Location: AC: Lake Geneva, Milwaukee, Williamsburg SW: Barefoot with snakes by the gun store Involuntary Sponsor of the Week: Girls Auto Clinic The Zeitgeist: U.Va. suspends admissions tours led by the University Guides Service RFK Jr: Dead bears in Central Park, heads off dead whales…you team is normal Lidl clouds across Europe. The risk of being a new parking pattern early adopter AI and Atrophying brains ? Envoy Tank Radio: Breaking the boundaries between civilian and military… Diplomatic Sauna Society Pavel Durov - Arrest or defection? - doesn’t matter... the Russians now think the West has the back door Perri's Scope Men’s sheds movement Perri and Scott are related? Black discussion, blue tape. Yelling at Clouds with Scott & Ace: American hover-queueing - for the love of the gods are you in line or not? Roundabouts. How they work, what they are and what the aren’t. (Hint, they’re not stop signs) Rendezvous: Silos in the Badlands.…

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Baby Kisser 54:48

28 weeks назад54:48

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This week's running order... I’m voting for Keith… Location: AC: Lake Geneva SW: Sick Bay Involuntary Sponsor of the Week: Armand Duplantis - world record pole vaulter. No, not that one. Competes for the Swedes Messi of Pole Vaulting - Duplantis is the world outdoor and indoor record holder (6.25 metres or 20 feet 6 inches, and 6.22 metres or 20 feet 5 inches, respectively), two-time Olympic ( 2020 and 2024 ) champion, two-time World outdoor ( 2022 and 2023 ) and indoor champion, and current European champion. World Athletics pays 100K for each world record breaking. 9x. By a centimeter at a time. The Zeitgeist: Ace as a white bearded man (and Mayor) Funerals: put me on a paddle board, fire burning arrows at me Funerals: Exit here - cool funeral parlors Coaching Gen Z on how to make phone calls - Doctor’s appointments "Holidays in July" - healthy capitalism or ailing economy? Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - British Classism is more honest than American Classism, the top 1% is actually the top 15%, and there’s more of a “wealth trap” than a “poverty trap”: Opinion | Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - The New York Times Southwest moves away from open seating https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/travel/southwest-open-boarding-change-reactions.html Envoy Tank Radio: Breaking the boundaries between civilian and military… The Ukrainians have F-16s. Now what?… Robot Dogs: https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1822234280287736298 And the spies’ kids who thought they were Argentinian, not Russian. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cljyj9jp993o Travel Section: IndiGogo airlines allows women to choose seats next to women (via the V-wire) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indigo-tests-feature-that-lets-women-book-seats-away-from-men/?linkId=542662663&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3HoSCXrhz4Ift2MfguTYZ-WshghawUIjUZaSDBRLaOzmy4t7QZ_IbkMjw_aem_LvgIb4gTyagRVvGcKag23A Perri's Scope Observations from Lord Young The jet pack- the unseen force that drives you. Whether it be toward a specific goal or toward a belief Neil deGrasse Tyson responds to Terrance Howard https://medium.com/@Matthew_Thomas/neil-degrasse-tyson-responds-to-terrence-howard-ace99b356c13 . The Dunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect New star in the night sky - the star in the Conronea Borealis constellation which is 3,000 light years away will explode in a Nova between now and September and will be visible in the night sky for a week. This is a recurrent Nova, exploding every 40 years. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasa-global-astronomers-await-rare-nova-explosion/ Tools for Tools: We’re the tools and these are some of the tools we use in our world… The F'd Up Tiger Trick - clench your muscles when you feel stressed "I’m in a bad mood." Giveaway: The “Does it have to be said, now, by me” quote mug Yelling at Clouds NOT HAVING AN EMAIL SIGNATURE. ESPECIALLY NOT HAVING A CELL PHONE NUMBER IN YOUR SIGNATURE (ACE's caps, not Scott's...) If you have “visionary” in your LI profile description, the odds of me replying - unless you’re an oracle or a fortune teller - are very small Coordinates Next Week(s): Home for Labor Day weekend, then off to the Badlands of South Dakota...…

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Shake Your Ficus 58:25

33 weeks назад58:25

58:25

Live from the back of a rental car on I-85, after being CrowdStruck in the airport. Covering some of the events of the week, but mainly skipping over the things everyone else is talking about to create space to talk about things that shook our ficus a little.

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Spit & Polish 1:07:09

36 weeks назад1:07:09

1:07:09

This week, in the week of Independence Day in the US, and Elections in the UK: Tractors pulling out of DEI while doing DEI https://twitter.com/TractorSupply/status/1806417863885902217/photo/1 The history of boycotts Self-censoring ERR Bound, handcuffed and forced to listen to a radio show. Don’t go to Oslo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vhD59ac7nw Black Jobs (Ace defends President Trump on efficiency grounds) https://x.com/fiercefreckled/status/1807520739718762861 Prime Minister on your doorstep https://x.com/cllr_aston/status/1807467159032901901 Machiavellian Macron and French Cohabitation Perri-Camp: The conversation around masculinity that we’re having by not having it. Men playing No2 to Women Units of Cultural Inheritance Unexpected rocket launches https://www.instagram.com/reel/C85I3XVRIq3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_li and the dodging bullets on 4th July. Zombie soldiers Ugly is beautiful?… Nope. Esp for vape stores Tools: Knowing the problem you’re solving - Get off my lawn Carbon Savings Account: https://scope-zero.com Writing an agenda for your social meetings Ask your teams “What might you be wrong about?” Commiserating in exasperation…

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Gigglemugs Go Juggins Hunting 54:10

37 weeks назад54:10

54:10

I asked Ace yesterday "why do we do this?". "1. Fun. 2. Fun. 3. Trying out new material for our talks. Which is why sometimes it's rubbish...." This week, we cover: Pigeons in airports and frogs in backpacks; Snakes on paddle boards and Ace's pumpkin patch; Donating blood rather than tweeting opinions; Bolshie ≠ Bullshitty; Mail Jumpers (not Male Jumpers) A single bearing from America to India AI "softening" angry Japanese consumers Carbon neutral Druids Thai gay marriage Be rich-adjacent, it's more fun than being rich British courtesy (when not in a steel and glass bubble) Medieval weapons in modern warfare Women special forces Murderous velocity electric vehicles Backup cameras are the new calculators Fist bump or handshake? How to celebrate Juneteenth Gigglemugs go Juggins Hunting…

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Chestnuts and Hot Dogs 46:20

38 weeks назад46:20

46:20

This week, we talk about loneliness and social isolation, and what we can do about it. And then, the usual combination of rants about everything from nationalizing Uber, hot dogs and chestnuts, Ace's weird relationship with turkeys, drowning influencers while birthing stars, delegating vs abdicating, fake waterfalls and access to nature. And it turns out the Amazonian folk have a healthier relationship with their new tech than shallow media wants to report. Oh, and free Phone Boxes for the first million listeners who write to radio@envoyportfolio.com…

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Punchy & Goopy 51:41

39 weeks назад51:41