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#228 · Tue, Oct 5, 2021 · Loading viewsRZA is a rapper, record producer, filmmaker, actor, writer, philosopher, and the mastermind of the legendary hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
#227 · Thu, Sep 30, 2021 · Loading viewsSean Kelly is a philosopher at Harvard specializing in existentialism and the philosophy of mind.
#226 · Mon, Sep 27, 2021 · Loading viewsJo Boaler is a professor of mathematics education at Stanford and the co-founder of youcubed.
#225 · Sun, Sep 26, 2021 · Loading viewsJeffrey Shainline is a physicist at NIST.
#224 · Thu, Sep 23, 2021 · Loading viewsTravis Oliphant is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda.
#223 · Tue, Sep 21, 2021 · Loading viewsTravis Stevens is the 2016 Olympic Judo silver medalist and BJJ black belt.
#222 · Mon, Sep 20, 2021 · Loading viewsJay McClelland is a cognitive scientist at Stanford.
#221 · Wed, Sep 15, 2021 · Loading viewsDouglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to solve common-sense knowledge and reasoning in AI.
#220 · Sat, Sep 11, 2021 · Loading viewsNiels Jorgensen is a former New York firefighter for over 21 years, who was there at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001.
#219 · Thu, Sep 9, 2021 · Loading viewsDonald Knuth is a computer scientist, Turing Award winner, father of algorithm analysis, author of The Art of Computer Programming, and creator of TeX.
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#218 · Mon, Sep 6, 2021 · Loading viewsJaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, artist, author, and founder of the field of virtual reality.
#217 · Fri, Sep 3, 2021 · Loading viewsRodney Brooks is a roboticist, former head of CSAIL at MIT, and co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Robust.
#216 · Wed, Sep 1, 2021 · Loading viewsVincent Racaniello is a virologist, immunologist, and microbiologist at Columbia.
#215 · Sun, Aug 29, 2021 · Loading viewsWojciech Zaremba is a co-founder of OpenAI.
#214 · Fri, Aug 27, 2021 · Loading viewsJed Buchwald is a historian and philosopher of science at Caltech.
#213 · Mon, Aug 23, 2021 · Loading viewsBarry Barish is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
#212 · Sat, Aug 21, 2021 · Loading viewsJoscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher.
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#211 · Sun, Aug 15, 2021 · Loading viewsBrian Muraresku is the author of The Immortality Key.
#210 · Wed, Aug 11, 2021 · Loading viewsMatt Walker is a sleep scientist at Berkeley, author of Why We Sleep, and the host of a new podcast called The Matt Walker Podcast.
#209 · Mon, Aug 9, 2021 · Loading viewsLuis and Joao Batalha are co-founders of Fermat's Library.
#208 · Sun, Aug 8, 2021 · Loading viewsJeff Hawkins is a neuroscientist and cofounder of Numenta, a neuroscience research company.
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#207 · Tue, Aug 3, 2021 · Loading viewsChris Duffin is a strength athlete, coach, and engineer, setting multiple strength world records including squatting and deadlifting 1000 lbs for multiple reps.
#206 · Sat, Jul 31, 2021 · Loading viewsIshan Misra is a research scientist at FAIR working on self-supervised visual learning.
#205 · Thu, Jul 29, 2021 · Loading viewsZach Bitter is an ultramarathon runner and coach.
#204 · Mon, Jul 26, 2021 · Loading viewsCumrun Vafa is a theoretical physicist at Harvard.