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#128 · Fri, Oct 2, 2020 · Loading viewsMichael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author.
#127 · Sat, Sep 26, 2020 · Loading viewsJoe Rogan is a comedian, UFC commentator, and the host of the Joe Rogan Experience.
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#126 · Thu, Sep 24, 2020 · Loading viewsJames Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java programming language.
#125 · Sun, Sep 20, 2020 · Loading viewsRyan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts.
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#124 · Tue, Sep 15, 2020 · Loading viewsStephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist.
#123 · Sat, Sep 12, 2020 · Loading viewsManolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.
#122 · Tue, Sep 8, 2020 · Loading viewsDavid Fravor is a navy pilot of 18 years and a primary witness in one of the most credible UFO sightings in history.
#121 · Sat, Sep 5, 2020 · Loading viewsEugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion.
#120 · Mon, Aug 31, 2020 · Loading viewsFrançois Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras.
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#119 · Wed, Aug 26, 2020 · Loading viewsDavid Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford.
#118 · Sun, Aug 23, 2020 · Loading viewsGrant Sanderson is the creator of 3Blue1Brown.
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#117 · Thu, Aug 20, 2020 · Loading viewsSheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core.
#116 · Sun, Aug 16, 2020 · Loading viewsSara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets.
#115 · Fri, Aug 14, 2020 · Loading viewsDileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta. From the early work on Hierarchical temporal memory to Recursive Cortical Networks to today, Dileep's always sought to engineer intelligence that is closely inspired by the human brain.
#114 · Sun, Aug 9, 2020 · Loading viewsRuss Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations.
#113 · Fri, Jul 31, 2020 · Loading viewsManolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives.
#112 · Wed, Jul 29, 2020 · Loading viewsIan Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is the energy source of the stars, to be used for practical energy production. Current nuclear reactors are based on fission as we discuss. Ian has also written on the philosophy of science and the relationship between science and religion.
#111 · Sun, Jul 26, 2020 · Loading viewsRichard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the key figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the development of the Edmonds–Karp algorithm for solving the maximum flow problem on networks, Hopcroft–Karp algorithm for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs, and his landmark paper in complexity theory called "Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems", in which he proved 21 problems to be NP-complete. This paper was probably the most important catalyst in the explosion of interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P vs NP problem.
#110 · Tue, Jul 21, 2020 · Loading viewsJitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over 180,000 times and has mentored many world-class researchers in computer science.
#109 · Sat, Jul 18, 2020 · Loading viewsBrian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.
#108 · Tue, Jul 14, 2020 · Loading viewsSergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, and deep RL algorithms.
#107 · Wed, Jul 8, 2020 · Loading viewsPeter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme poverty, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, and happiness including in his books Ethics in the Real World and The Life You Can Save. He was a key popularizer of the effective altruism movement and is generally considered one of the most influential philosophers in the world.
#106 · Fri, Jul 3, 2020 · Loading viewsMatt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
#105 · Tue, Jun 30, 2020 · Loading viewsRobert Langer is a professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history, specializing in biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He has bridged theory and practice by being a key member and driving force in launching many successful biotech companies out of MIT.
#104 · Sat, Jun 27, 2020 · Loading viewsDavid Patterson is a Turing award winner and professor of computer science at Berkeley. He is known for pioneering contributions to RISC processor architecture used by 99% of new chips today and for co-creating RAID storage. The impact that these two lines of research and development have had on our world is immeasurable. He is also one of the great educators of computer science in the world. His book with John Hennessy "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" is how I first learned about and was humbled by the inner workings of machines at the lowest level.