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May 15, 202638 min
MIT Futuretech : Training Pathways that Work
The future of work is being rewritten now. Hear how government, industry, labor, and civil society are supporting the workforce to successfully transition into AI-augmented roles that drive real impact.Angie Cooper, President, Heartland ForwardKeith Sonderling, Deputy Labor Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor Jessica Garner, Managing Director, Innovative Learning, ISTE+ASCDElisabeth Jacobs, Associate Vice President, Urban InstituteLet me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)
May 14, 202620 min
Robotics' End Game with Nvidia's Jim Fan
Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the LLM path from pre-training to reasoning to auto research, but with world models replacing language models, egocentric video replacing teleoperation, and world action models replacing the VLA paradigm. Along the way: why he thinks we'll pass the physical Turing test within 2–3 years, why "compute now equals environment equals data," and why this generation was born just in time to solve robotics.00:00 Introduction00:30 DGX One Origin Story01:42 The Great Parallel03:31 Robotics Endgame Setup03:39 Why VLA Falls Short04:32 Video World Models06:09 DreamZero World Action07:46 Scaling Data Collection11:06 EgoScale And Scaling Laws15:39 DreamDojo And The RoadmapLet me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)
May 14, 202629 min
On AI: Andrej Karpathy - From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
00:00 - Introduction00:44 - Feeling Behind as a Coder02:28 - Software 3.0 Explained03:44 - Agents as the Installer04:49 - Menu Gen vs Raw Prompts07:37 - What’s Obvious by 202609:41 - Verifiability and Jagged Skills13:39 - Founder Advice and Automation15:46 - From Vibe Coding to Agent Engineering25:17 - Agents Everywhere and LearningLet me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)
August 7, 20251 min
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January 20, 20256 hr 37 min
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.
“In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” Thus Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion.
‘Surprised by Joy’ reveals both that crisis and its momentous conclusion that would determine the shape of Lewis’s entire life.
January 7, 20258 hr 25 min
The Tipping Point with Malcolm Gladwell
The "three rules of epidemics" (or the three "agents of change") in the tipping points of epidemics.
The Law of the Few
The Stickiness Factor
The Power of Context
January 7, 20257 hr 51 min
Models
Models with Mark Manson
January 4, 20251 hr 16 min
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
(0:00) Pre-show footage for the All-In Holiday Spectacular
(3:00) Year in Review
(10:45) Besties on stage and a drop-in from SantaCanis!
(15:50) Besties introduce the format and the "Bestie" award
(17:25) Biggest Winner - Business
(18:35) Biggest Loser - Business
(20:11) Biggest Surprise - Business
(23:20) Biggest Winner - Politics
(28:11) Biggest Loser - Politics
(31:13) Biggest Surprise - Politics
(37:19) Aaron Levie joins the besties!
(43:50) Best CEO (not named Elon Musk)
(46:42) Best Investor
(49:18) Best New Tech or Product
(52:01) All-In Short: Chamath's Perfect Episode
(54:24) Alex Botez joins the besties!
(57:26) Favorite Media
(1:00:23) Best Startup
(1:02:31) Biggest Flop
(1:05:53) Sports Story of the Year
(1:07:54) Moment of the Year
(1:10:05) Reflecting on 2024
January 3, 202510 hr 20 min
How They Broke Britain with James Brien
Something has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it?
December 31, 202425 hr 12 min
We Who Wrestle With God
In We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world, analyzing the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering and triumph that stabilize, inspire and unite us, culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the resentful and ultimately murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah, the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham’s terrible adventure, and the epic of Moses and the Israelites: What could such stories possibly mean? What force wrote and assembled them, over the long centuries? How did they bring our spirits and the world together, and point us in the same direction?It is time for us to understand such things, scientifically and spiritually; to become conscious of the structure of our souls and our societies – to see ourselves and others as if for the first time.Join Elijah as he discovers the Voice of God in the dictates of his own conscience, and Jonah, confronting hell itself, in the belly of the whale, because he failed to listen and act. Set yourself straight in intent, aim and purpose, as you begin to more deeply understand the structure of your society and your soul. Journey with Jordan Peterson through the greatest stories ever told.
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