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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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Classics of Book 2:02:06

14 дней назад2:02:06

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Despite what the posts we read from the internet would suggest, people on the internet sometimes actually read books. Books that people care about. Classics, if you will. What’s a classic? Whatever’s tagged as classic on Goodreads, obviously! Let’s figure out which some classics are much reviled by the sharp-minded, sharp-tongued folks over at Goodreads, and which are beloved for what is certainly a deep and correct reason. What do you mean the majority of these people have Harry Potter listed as their favorite books? Who would ever take notice of something like that? Ohohoho! This week, Extra Credit wonder’s if Ye Olde Bois are worth it.…

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Barnabas Stop Reading Ahead 2:00:00

5 weeks назад2:00:00

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On the internet, we often find ourselves inundated with impressively bad erotica. But did you know that before the internet people were also bad at writing flirtation, foreplay, sex, and fetish play? Okay, but did you know they were also GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?! Hommi Publishing is on a mission to catalog gay pulp romance novels from the latter half of the 20th century, seeing as much of it is lost to villainous fujoshi librarians and price-gouging ebay scoundrels who hoard these homosexual remnants of print media, and archiving them on the internet, complete with excerpts to entice and delight. Real talk: This is actually a great mission. Realer talk: It’s still funny to read bad romance prose. This week, Extra Credit would never love a green, fanged, 123 year old vampire.…

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Bigger Than Before 2:02:42

11 weeks назад2:02:42

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A day late, a dollar short, and two couch cushions bigger than before… Fantasy Feeder is a place we’ve been to maybe once before. Or maybe twice if you’re from THAT loaf. But what’s important is that we never ever get full anymore so you may as well watch as our bellies grow comically large and our asses get really really tall all because some sinister uh… clerk at a store puts us in a dress that’s too small I guess? This episode is about people who fetishize fatness so much they ruin other people’s day and self-esteem for their own gratification. This week, Extra Credit doesn’t care if you don’t get our Homestar Runner references.…

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Deja Vu All Over Again… Again 1:59:35

13 weeks назад1:59:35

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Synchronicity is apparently when something is almost but not quite a coincidence or something. Look it really doesn’t matter. What does matter is that when things happen it’s only because all things were destined to give me a tingly feeling in the back of my head. That’s why I go to reddit and tell everyone how freaky it is that sometimes I remember my dog. Look, I dunno what to say about this one, it’s literally about nothing even within the context of the community r/synchronicity which seems to be a subreddit about nothing. This week, Extra Credit’s alarm went off for American Spirit.…

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$350,000 in Penalties

15 weeks назад

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alt.horror.werewolves was once a place where Usenet members could post about werewolf movies. Then a bunch of furries took over and started talking exclusively about being werewolves. In order to get people to stop expecting discussion about horror movies and instead expect serious discussion about someday seeing the real them in the mirror and how lycanthrope and theriomorph are interchangeable or something, the new cool kids decided to put up a Frequently Asked Questions page to address all the times someone has asked “wait do you really think you’re a wolf?” or “hey why is this .horror and not .spirituality or something?” The result is people in the late 90s and early 00s meeting up in Ohio to jump over fire. This week, Extra Credit learns to were is human, to wolf divine. Pictures from the 1995 Howl…

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h♱♱p 1:30:27

17 weeks назад1:30:27

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Jesus loves the little forum users. Probably. The Christian Teen Forums is a place on the internet that begs the question “A forum for Christian Teens? What could possibly go wrong?!” And then you read it and you say “Oh right. Obviously all of this could possibly go wrong. And has!” You have your doctrinal disputes, your decades outdated pop-culture concerns, your former teens that grew into adults and never left the forum… And it all mixes together into a frothy spiritual soup where everyone is trying to prove the teenagers on the other side of their screens are the actual stupid ones. So… It’s pretty much the internet. This week, Extra Credit is starting a Christian Clan at SOCOM 4. Art c/o Vampire Software…

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Gaming in the Clinton Years 1:57:45

21 weeks назад1:57:45

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The 90s: A time of Tamagotchis, Talkboy tape recorders, and, yes, magazines about video games. These relics of a bygone era form the heart of our culture in a way only consumerism can manage. Some come along with us as we travel twixt the years 1991 and 2001 through words and song, though with the level of lyricism in magazines such as PC Accelerator, Gamepro, Official Playstation Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and so some more. Come for the classic 90s audio quality, stay for the classic 90s misogyny! This week, Extra Credit wonders what if Waluigi did 9/11 to Dolphin Zelda.…

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200 (Give or Take) Part 3 1:56:24

23 weeks назад1:56:24

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We top off our 200-ennieal extravaganza with another Hodgepode Documodge! Join us as we dive into the offerings of Secret Gaygent 69, the lizzerd, and more! Thanks for listening for ~200 ‘sodes, the next 200 are on us! (as were the last 200. we got a lot of ‘sodes to give away, only mildly past the sell by date!)…

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200 (Give or Take) Part 2 2:14:15

23 weeks назад2:14:15

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Part 2 crew, the B-team, the idea that keeps on giving… In this part, a bunch of us go back through old documents and read stuff that had been skipped over, or we dug deeper and found more new things to read that were even worse. See, we finally got around to it! Some of it… Stress brought back the Crying Lovers’ Forum: The Crying Came Dijon brought back Giles English: Giles English Strikes Again Gany brought back Hypnoponies: One Trick Pony Mix brought back zity.biz: Curse of the Mummy’s Tube ; With Enemas Like These Who Needs Friends? Shell brought back r/dirtypenpals: Only the Preambles to Porn…

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200 (Give or Take) Part 1 1:53:16

23 weeks назад1:53:16

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Wow! 200 episodes! And yes we did do 200 episodes. Real fans know. The rest will just have to deal. Today Shell asks some of our newest readers with the oldest roots about their ancient forays into the internet of yore. Turtle, Positronic, and Spaced God take us back to a time when the community and shippers shaped the experience, rather than an algorithm and shippers. Let’s take a journey to the seeds of the seeds of this podcast, won’t we?…

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The History of Magnemite and Other Stories 1:29:57

28 weeks назад1:29:57

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Pokemon on the internet? That must mean sexy sex gross fetish stuff, right? Wrong. Well, mostly right but in this case it’s wrong. We challenged doc makers to construct a document about pokemon in which nothing sexual or fetishy was happening and dammit we eventually got there. Mostly. Gany and Likely JUST Dijon might have cheated a little. Whatever, the point is this episode is about pokemon in a non-sexual sense which makes it the rarest content online. This week, Extra Credit is going to ask the other elves what their majors are. Shell’s depiction Ashto’s depiction the lizzerd’s depiction…

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The Essential Christofascist Filmgoer’s Guide To Hollywood

30 weeks назад

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You might all think the internet is just a place for messy queer representation and inflated Chilly (Bluey’s mom, keep up people) but actually the internet is filled with examples of brave souls trying to save American society from itself. The ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture Ministry (CAP Ministry) is a place to find objective numerical scoring of how evil a piece of film media is, from the devilish depths of Matilda to the perfection of Mary Poppins, using a strictly objective system in which six different types of immorality are represented by six thermometers. Like in thermometers, you subtract points from 100 for the presence of sin within a film and then you derive some kind of average or something and multiply by length in case you don’t watch all of the movie. Confused? Probably because you’re steeped in sin. Come over to our side and see the light of this nonprofit ministry that is definitely not just applying a fascist brand of Christianity to film criticism. This week, Extra Credit isn’t paying any mind to trumped up claims of some moral message that try and hide the fact that sin has been demonstrated on screen.…

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Simulacra and Stimulation 1:29:41

32 weeks назад1:29:41

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AI chat bots are everywhere, and yet the one place dudes on the internet still can’t manage to get is in their pants. Replika is one of the more bullshit of bullshit AI friends, in that it promises to be unique to you rather than just dump all the data when you close the session. Except it totally does still do that, which means every time a guy tries to goad his Replika into enacting his cuckold fantasies, he’ll just have to do it all over again the next time thus prolonging the denial, making cuckoldry one of the only things AI is consistently good at. Anyway the rest of the dudes here mostly type the way they think and then Replika doesn’t want to fuck them. Isn’t that strange? This week, Extra Credit *looks down*.…

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Above Ska-P Secret 1:43:00

34 weeks назад1:43:00

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Above Top Secret is a conspiracy theory website where everyone types exactly how you expect them to and their forum design is exactly as bizarre as you would expect it to be if you expected it to be anything beyond two too bright colors. But that doesn’t matter. You know what matters? Reel Big Fish. I mean short stories and poetry. Dammit. Look we get a little distracted this episode and we might spend quite a bit of time discussing Reel Big Fish. This week Extra Credit can pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, but we really should just let it drop.…

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A Bad Judge of Character 1:43:00

36 weeks назад1:43:00