All Episodes

March 2024
Episode 315 - Robots, Casinos, and Digital Minimalism

February 2024
Episode 314 - AI Intensified
Episode 313 - Ori Keren: Software, Sports, and LinearB

January 2024
Episode 312 - Michael Callahan: Interaction, Identity and Ideology
Episode 311 - Where We Go Next
Episode 310 - Another Year, Another Local Maximum

December 2023
Episode 309 - The Next Saeculum
Episode 308 - Generations, Awakenings, and Gen X Comedy
Episode 307 - The Constitution and Shifting Language
Episode 306 - Spotify Shrinks, OpenAI Returns, and Household Robots Emerge

November 2023
Episode 305 - Fragmented: Health Care and Data with Ilana Yurkiewicz
Episode 304 - OpenAI Fails to Align
Episode 303 - Pharaohs and the Exodus with Alexander Hool

October 2023
Episode 302 - Sturbridge Village Retreat
Episode 301 - Cultural Contradictions: War, Academia, and Entertainment
Episode 300 - War in the Middle East, Part I
Episode 299 - Sam Kamani with an Intro to Web 3
Episode 298 - Veto Powers, Programming Languages, and Terminals

September 2023
Episode 297 - Stephan Kinsella: The Fallacy of Intellectual Property
Episode 296 - Government vs Google and Amazon Anti-Trust
Episode 295 - Rewriting the Constitution: Did the Founders Screw up the Senate
Episode 294 - State Chains and Copyright Claims

August 2023
Episode 293 - Twitter Rants: Jon Stewart, Scrum, and Just Plain Numbers
Episode 292 - Copyright Clashes, Literary Science, and Rational Distributions
Episode 291 - Publishers vs Librarians, Artificial Digital Scarcity, and Revisiting Bertrand
Episode 290 - Generational Turnings versus Technological Change
Episode 289 - Revamping Dental Tech with Melissa LuVisi

July 2023
Episode 288 - Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat to Humanity?
Episode 287 - The Rise and Fall of ESG with Peter Earle
Episode 286 - Consciousness Bets, Reverse Turing Tests, and Display Tech
Episode 285 - Max Changes the Constitution, Part III

June 2023
Episode 284 - Max Changes the Constitution, Part II
Episode 283 - Max Changes the Constitution, Part I
Episode 282 - Meganets with David Auerbach
Episode 281 - The Mixed Reality Moment

May 2023
Episode 280 - How to Attack Truth Seeking
Episode 279 - Covid and Civil Liberties
Episode 278 - Proof of Stake, Map Powers, and Google answer OpenAI
Episode 277 - Open Source Sagas with Max Howell
Episode 276 - The Dictator of Easton at 21

April 2023
Episode 275 - Connecticut Chronicles, Columbia Conferences & Questioning Bots
Episode 274 - Quantum Computing with Ian MacCormack
Episode 273 - Stop Making AI Boring
Episode 272 - Data Science History with Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones

March 2023
Episode 271 - Semiconductors, Lithography, and Moore's Law with Adam Kane of ASML
Episode 270 - Exciting and Terrifying - NYT Podcast Trashing, GPT4, and Bank Runs
Episode 269 - Image Recognition Technology for Health with Susan Conover
Episode 268 - Pascal's Mugging, Doomsday Clocks, and the AGI Debate

February 2023
Episode 267 - Bernoulli's Fallacy with Aubrey Clayton
Episode 266 - Simplicity, Complexity, and Text Classification with Joel Grus
Episode 265 - The Multi-Armed Bandit
Episode 264 - Talking Tik Tok, Privacy, and Propaganda with Adam Kovacevich

January 2023
Episode 263 - Relative Probability
Episode 262 - Category Theory, Google Responds, and Another Covid Retro
Episode 261 - Generative AI's Grand Entrance
Episode 260 - New Year Predictions: Generative AI, Self Driving Cars, and Web3
Episode 259 - New Years Thoughts

December 2022
Episode 258 - Sports and AI: Jason Syversen Changing the Game with SportsVision
Episode 257 - Lessons from the Debate with Gene Epstein
Episode 256 - The Broken World of Big Tech
Episode 255 - AI's Got Chat: The Rise of chatGPT

November 2022
Episode 254 - Alexa Disappoints, Tesla Self Drives, and Hurricane Addendum
Episode 253 - Make Better Decisions with Helen and Dave Edwards
Episode 252 - Hurricane Sandy Ten Years On
Episode 251 - Debate: Monarchy vs Democracy
Episode 250 - The Bird Flips

October 2022
Episode 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Episode 248 - The Globe as Hexagons with Isaac Brodsky
Episode 247 - Twitter, Paypal, and Ukraine (Musk's World)
Episode 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler

September 2022
Episode 245 - Axioms of Probability
Episode 244 - Phyl Terry: Never Search Alone
Episode 243 - Eric Daimler on Conexus and Category Theory
Episode 242 - Artificial Art, Reverse Proxies, and Extraterrestrial Dice

August 2022
Episode 241 - No Code
Episode 240 - Turning The Crypto Corner
Episode 239 - Local Maximum Tech Retreat Panel
Episode 238 - New York Times Finally Against Censorship
Episode 237 - Thinking about Quality with Jonathon Wright

July 2022
Episode 236 - Alzheimer's Research Setback and Facebook News Demoted
Episode 235 - Seasteading with Tony Olsen
Episode 234 - Simplexes and Distributions
Episode 233 - Crypto Winter Raging

June 2022
Episode 232 - Intro to Inflation
Episode 231 - The Increasing Cost of Intelligence
Episode 230 - Another Google AI Spat, Self Awareness, and the Eliza Effect
Episode 229 - Fun with Bayesian Statistics with Will Kurt
Episode 228 - All Things Bayesian

May 2022
Episode 227 - Deepmind's Gato and Dreams of Human Level Artificial Intelligence
Episode 226 - Podcasting 2.0 with Adam Curry
Episode 225 - The Tsunami Arrives and Architecture Astronauts
Episode 224 - Living on Crypto with Joel Valenzuela

April 2022
Episode 223 - Elon's Twitter Takeover
Episode 222 - Techno-Pessimism in the Stupid Ages
Episode 221 - Emotion and AI with Alan Cowen
Episode 220 - Twitter's Musk Factor, Chat Bot Intelligence, and Pizza

March 2022
Episode 219 - Artificial Intelligence for Construction with René Morkos
Episode 218 - Sampling Bias Correction
Episode 217 - Voices From Ukraine
Episode 216 - Corona-Fascism with Alu Axelman
Episode 215 - Polina Shevchenko: Growing up in Donetsk

February 2022
Episode 214 - War in Ukraine, New York Times Bias
Episode 213 - Artificial Consciousness Controversy
Episode 212 - Bitcoin and the Lightning Network with Guy Swann
Episode 211 - Competition, Consolidation, and Shock

January 2022
Episode 210 - Metaverse Hype and Infinite Sets
Episode 209 - Wiped Off the Face of the Internet
Episode 208 - Bitcoin and the Fourth Turning with Brandon Quittem
Episode 207 - Max Returns with Priors
Episode 206 - Topics for the New Year

December 2021
Episode 205 - Developer Hegemony with Erik Dietrich
Episode 204 - Free Speech, Moderation, and Censorship with Johnny Nelson
Episode 203 - Iraq and Social Choice Theory
Episode 202 - Tech Giants at their Saturation Points

November 2021
Episode 201 - Andrew Gelman, Statistical Insights
Episode 200 - Milestone Metachat
Episode 199 - Regenerating the Past with AI
Episode 198 - Passive Computing
Episode 197 - Industry Shifts with Meta, Rumble, and Locals

October 2021
Episode 196 - Viking Tree Rings and the Prospects of a Trump Social
Episode 195 - Why We Sample
Episode 194 - Steve Jobs
Episode 193 - New Beginnings

September 2021
Episode 192 - What is Intelligence
Episode 191 - Tracking Big Trends with Ed McCormack
Episode 190 - Layers in Truth Seeking, Smart Toilets, and Set Theory Counting
Episode 189 - September 11th Recall Part II - Memories, Aftermath, Rebuilding
Episode 188 - September 11th Recall Part I - The Before Time

August 2021
Episode 187 - Coding from Natural Language, NYT Tech Walkout, Off Predictions
Episode 186 - Cubans embrace Bitcoin amidst Monetary Oppression, and the Last Jew in Afghanistan
Episode 185 - Goldbacks in Your Pocket with Benjamin Shaffer
Episode 184 - Academic Freedom, Crypto Regs, and Security Devices
Episode 183 - The Metaverse and Digits

July 2021
Episode 182 - Focal Points and Written Constitutions
Episode 181 - Redacting your Secrets
Episode 180 - Branson, Bezos, and Musk dash to Space
Episode 179 - New York attempts Ranked Choice Voting

June 2021
Episode 178 - How Design Makes the World with Scott Berkun
Episode 177 - Lessons from Past Predictions on Autonomous Vehicles, Bitcoin, Covid, and Decentralization
Episode 176 - Gene Epstein on Economics, Capitalism and Innovation
Episode 175 - Predictions Panel on Decentralization, Language Models, and Post-COVID

May 2021
Episode 174 - Jeremy Kauffman, CEO of Odysee and LBRY for Decentralized Video
Episode 173 - The Fourth Turning Part II - Emerging from the Crisis
Episode 172 - The Fourth Turning Part I - Cycles of History
Episode 171 - Ransomware, Security First, and Crypto-corporations
Episode 170 - Bayesian Inference Regulations and Network Algorithms
Episode 169 - Basecamp’s Boundary on Politics

April 2021
Episode 168 - Urban Augmented Reality with Iracema Trevisan
Episode 167 - Blockchain Rising: Wordproof and DeFi
Episode 166 - Lockdown Memory Holes and Rates of Return
Episode 165 - Peter McCormack of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast

March 2021
Episode 164 - Anne Griffin on Attracting Employers and AI Product
Episode 163 - Flying Cars, Causality, and Digital Art Storage Concerns
Episode 162 - Assaf Lev: Cofounder and CEO of Locals
Episode 161 - Fighting for Free Speech with Sam Jacobs
Episode 160 - Digital Art, Tokens, and Rationalists

February 2021
Episode 159 - Gresham's Law, More Google Drama, Self Driving San Francisco
Episode 158 - Live Free or Die
Episode 157 - Financial Tsunami on the Horizon
Episode 156 - Machine Vision with Iain Smith

January 2021
Episode 155 - Why Oppose Censorship
Episode 154 - Googlezon
Episode 153 - Decentralizing Before our Eyes
Episode 152 - Computational Breakthroughs: Advances in Ramsey Theory and Quantum Computing

December 2020
Episode 151 - The Pivotal Year 2020
Episode 150 - City Living, Waymo Driving, Protein Folding, and Bitcoin Popping
Episode 149 - Chaos at Google, Woke AI, Ethics, and Ultimatums
Episode 148 - Explaining AI, Decision Science, and Augmented Intelligence with Lisa Palmer

November 2020
Episode 147 - Joining Locals, Media Decline, and Digital Detox
Episode 146 - Math, Language, and Intelligence with Tai-Danae Bradley
Episode 145 - What Is Probability? A Philosophical Question with Practical Implications
Episode 144 - Brian Mac Mahon of Expert DOJO on Startups
Episode 143 - One Last Episode Before the US Presidential Election

October 2020
Episode 142 - The Newest App for Augmented Reality from Foursquare, Marsbot for AirPods
Episode 141 - How Social Media Censorship Affects Your Election Information Diet
Episode 140 - Why the US Election Polls Are Tricky with Alex Andorra
Episode 139 - Coinbase Goes Apolitical, Libra Languishes, and Deepfakes Rise

September 2020
Episode 138 - Discoveries About Extraterrestrial Life & Vikings Ancestry
Episode 137 - Bayesian COVID Tests, Topological Computation & How the Electoral College Votes
Episode 136 - What Are Martingales in Election Predictions?
Episode 135 - AI’s Potential in Natural Language Understanding & Human Memory

August 2020
Episode 134 - AI Breakthrough & Understanding “Understanding”
Episode 133 - What Is the Point of Pointless Topology?
Episode 132 - Podcasting, Politics & Porch Tours: Catching Up with Rob Bernstein
Episode 131 - Rethinking Management Structures in the Remote Work Era with Jeff Meyerson
Episode 130 - Walking on a Tightrope: How Politics Impacts the the Scientific Community

July 2020
Episode 129 - What’s New in Language Translation Tech with João Graça
Episode 128 - New Urban Dynamics & Shopping Innovations Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Episode 127 - Data Visualization Made Simple with Kristen Sosulski
Episode 126 - Electoral Systems: Models vs Reality

June 2020
Episode 125 - Why We Need the Electoral College with Tara Ross
Episode 124 - Socials in the Fact Checking Business
Episode 123 - Everybody Lies with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Episode 122 - What are we going through?
Episode 121 - The Tumultuous Week

May 2020
Episode 120 - The Reopening: Confounders, Colliders, and Simpson’s Paradox
Episode 119 - Advocating for Bayesian Inference with Brian Blais
Episode 118 - Learning vs Memorization, Bitcoin Halvening, and Antibody Tests
Episode 117 - A.I. Hype and the Expert Problem with Christian Hubbs

April 2020
Episode 116 - Cytometry and Machine Learning with Hefin Rhys
Episode 115 - Surprises in the Coronavirus Models
Episode 114 - Biden joins the Podoverse, The Market for Credibility, and Smart Toilets
Episode 113 - Quarantined Predictions Panel discusses Telemedicine, Virtual Reality, and Urbanization

March 2020
Episode 112 - Naomi Brockwell on Coronavirus Coverage, Encryption Laws, and Internet Freedom
Episode 111 - Covid Data Deluge, Zoombombing, and Wager Math
Episode 110 - Pandemic Update! Media Overload, Symptom Distribution, Estimating Fatality Rate
Episode 109 - Experimental Design with Adam Kapelner
Episode 108 - What is Probability, Bloomberg vs Bernie on Boards, and Password Guessing

February 2020
Episode 107 - Bob Murphy: Probability, Economics, and Human Action
Episode 106 - Incredible Map Tech, Venezuela 1% Free, and The 4 Crypto Seasons
Episode 105 - Joys of Bayes, Belief Networks, and Aerodynamics with Sophie Carr
Episode 104 - Connected Cars, Coronavirus, and Communication: Privacy under assault in Digital Age

January 2020
Episode 103 - Dave Rubin on Launching Locals and Taking Power back from Big Tech
Episode 102 - Logical Induction, Building Ordinals, and Compounding Errors
Episode 101 - Robots Taking All Our Jobs? Antony Sammeroff’s Rebuttal
Episode 100 - Milestones, Questions, and Wisdom from the First Hundred Episodes

December 2019
Episode 99 - Tech Trends of the 2010s
Episode 98 - Bayesian Stats and Political Trends with Alexandre Andorra
Episode 97 - Classic Computer Science Problems with David Kopec
Episode 96 - Climate Protests, Pascal’s Wager, and the Duplicitous Science Press
Episode 95 - Ideas and Inspiration from Gaming

November 2019
Episode 94 - Dividing By Zero, Infinite Ratios, and Ice Cream Sales
Episode 93 - Innovation, Consolidation, and Entrenched Industry Doctrines
Episode 92 - Political Game Theory and Self Driving Drama
Episode 91 - Ad Tech Intrigues with Shoshana Wodinsky

October 2019
Episode 90 - Narrative Confirmation Bias, Loaded Questions in Congress, Molyneux’s Misinformation
Episode 89 - Building Liberland! How to claim Your own Sovereign Territory.
Episode 88 - Occam's Razor, Hanlon's Razor, and Layers of Conspiracy
Episode 87 - Deep Learning and AI with Mark Ryan

September 2019
Episode 86 - Audio Augmented Reality and More Metaculus Predictions
Episode 85 - Metaculus: Aggregating emotions, expertise, and data into Prediction Engine
Episode 84 - Big Questions about the Universe with Anthony Aguirre
Episode 83 - Bitcoin Energy Alarmists, Musk and Ma in Different AI Universes, and Gab picks a fight
Episode 82 - Learning Should Be Free! Henry Abramson on Teaching Jewish History to the Global Classroom

August 2019
Episode 81 - Junk Science, Click Bait, and Meaningless Experiments
Episode 80 - Tumblr and Fall: Challenges for the Quirky and Creative Platform
Episode 79 - Creating Virtual Worlds with Timoni West
Episode 78 - Bayesian Thinking: Flat Earth Priors, The Mises Brothers, and Curb Your Analogy

July 2019
Episode 77 - Competitive Foosball
Episode 76 - Bitcoin and Google Invade Politics
Episode 75 - The Market Loves You: Jeffrey Tucker on the nature of Innovation
Episode 74 - Gerrymander USA, The End of Civilization, and Monkey Business
Episode 73 - Talking Python with Michael Kennedy

June 2019
Episode 72 - Voting Power, Consortiums, and Facebook's Currency
Episode 71 - Science and The City: From Urban Theory to Mobile Apps with Tassos Noulas
Episode 70 - Centralizers vs Extremists and an Ode to the Podoverse
Episode 69 - Apple Unbundles iTunes, Cuba Update, and Content Distribution in the 21st century

May 2019
Episode 68 - 6 University Courses that Influenced Me in Surprising Ways
Episode 67 - Social Credit Scores and Re-education Camps in China
Episode 66 - Dennis Crowley, Hypertrending at Foursquare
Episode 65 - The chance of something that has never happened before

April 2019
Episode 64 - Pro Tips for Your Resume with Marc Cenedella
Episode 63 - Transfer Learning, Career Cliffs, and Investing for the Future with Bethany Crystal of USV
Episode 62 - Capitalism, Competition, and Wealth: A Conversation with Denise Hearn
Episode 61 - Facebook vs Capitalism
Episode 60 - Hilary Mason, Machine Learning Research in Action

March 2019
Episode 59 - Internet in Cuba, Bitcoin in Venezuela
Episode 58 - Using Reflection from Media to Engineering with Mark Weiss
Episode 57 - Data Science, Analogies, and Nearest Neighbors
Episode 56 - True News, Fake Faces, and Adversarial Algorithms

February 2019
Episode 55 - Bitwise: A Life in Code with author David Auerbach
Episode 54 - Five G and the AI-AR-VR Connection
Episode 53 - Live Behavioral Assessment Results with Swati Doshi
Episode 52 - A Look Back at Foursquare, What's Next, and Superuser Shoutout

January 2019
Episode 51 - Swarm Lifelogging, Microsoft Evolving, and Sports Analyzing with Avneesh Kohli
Episode 50 - Gatekeepers Bypassed, Anonymous Tips, and Facebook's Familiar Frustrations
Episode 49 - Happier Maps, Better Routes, and the Tyranny of Efficiency with Daniele Quercia
Episode 48 - Chasing the Perfect Voting System with Daniel Kronovet

December 2018
Episode 47 - Max on Stage with the Year in Review
Episode 46 - The Audio Internet with Shani Offen
Episode 45 - Inside Google, Engineer Maryam Aly with a Comprehensive Account
Episode 44 - Ranking Foursquare Tips with Enrique Cruz
Episode 43 - Self Driving Cars and the Cycle of Adoption

November 2018
Episode 42 - Untouched Civilizations, Media Evolution, and GPlus Collections
Episode 41 - The Presidents and Communication Technology with David Pietrusza
Episode 40 - Charlie Oliver on Tech 2025, Open and Thought Provoking Conversations about our Near Future
Episode 39 - Paradox

October 2018
Episode 38 - Predictions Panel on Virtual Services, Rise of the Outer Suburbs, and Zombie Coins
Episode 37 - Naomi Brockwell on Blockchain Tech and Producing for YouTube and TV
Episode 36 - The Google Graveyard
Episode 35 - Camille Fournier and the Manager's Path
Episode 34 - Data Engineering with Joe Crobak, Foundations of Smart Software

September 2018
Episode 33 – Ads, Bias, Censorship, Democracy
Episode 32 - Woohoo no work!
Episode 31 - The Problem of Causality with @ShirinMojarad
Episode 30 - Entropy is a Decision Tree: Game of Thrones Predictions

August 2018
Episode 29 - Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralization with @clydevanel of the New York State Assembly
Episode 28 - Alex Jones, Jack Dorsey, and the Censorious Social Media Reporters
Episode 27 - Big Algorithm, Fat Tails, and Converging Priors
Episode 26 - @chrismessina on Conversational Commerce, Relationship Design, and the Future of Brands
Episode 25 - The Great Twitter Purge of 2018

July 2018
Episode 24 - Enjoying the A.I. Summer with @christianDHubbs
Episode 23 - NLP in the Lands of Foursquare with @kjc9
Episode 22 - Bayes Rulez, Death to P-Hacking
Episode 21 - Probability, Belief, and The Truth

June 2018
Episode 20 - Imperfect Bots, Marketplaces, and the AI Economy
Episode 19 - Information Theory with @kronosapiens, Horse Racing, and Fractional Bits
Episode 18 - AI Gone Psychopathic, Embellishment vs Fact
Episode 17 - Comedy and Big Data Mixed Up with @robbiethefire

May 2018
Episode 16 - Overfitting Toddlers and Underfitting Curmudgeons
Episode 15 - Poke, Chipotle, Green Needle: Data to Headline with @sarahspagnolo
Episode 14 - Robot Communism Sucks, and AI on line one
Episode 13 - Applied Artificial Intelligence with @thinkmariya
Episode 12 - Virtual Friends and Enemies, Building Products that look out for us with Marissa Chacko

April 2018
Episode 11 - Max Speaks @ The Yale Computer Society
Episode 10 - Zuckerberg Testifies, The Great Moderation War Continues
Episode 9 - Fixing Facebook and Lindy's Law
Episode 8 - Bad Ideas, the Power of Suggestion, and Marsbot

March 2018
Episode 7 - Dennis Crowley on Inspiration, Innovation, and Future Tech
Episode 6 - Facebook Data and the Election, Decentralization to the Rescue
Episode 5 - Christian Lundkvist on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Smart Contracts
Episode 4 - Codebreaking, Bizarro Harry Potter, and the Proper Way to Gerrymander

February 2018
Episode 3 - Stephanie Yang on Foursquare's Rating System
Episode 2 - Maryam Aly on Internationalization of Foursquare
Episode 1 - Bayesian Analysis of the Hawaii Missile Scare
Episode 0 - The great beginning, and how to Update your Beliefs