Podcast Episodes

Kyle Chan on the Future of US-China Competition — #94

Season 2

Kyle Chan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University. His research focuses on industrial policy, clean technology, and infrastructure with a regional focus…

Published on 7 hours ago

Joleen Liang: 40M+ kids educated by adaptive AI — #93

Season 2

Dr. Joleen Liang is Co-founder of Squirrel AI, which pioneered adaptive learning at scale, first in China and now in the US. By 2021 its technology had served over 60,000 public schools in 1,200 citi…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Max Dama on HFT: Millisecond Algos and Bid/Ask Dynamics — #92

Season 2

Max Dama is the co-chairman of Headlands Technologies LLC, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Austin, London, Amsterdam and Singapore. …

Published on 4 weeks ago

Andrew Song: Global Cooling with Sulfur Dioxide in the Stratosphere — #91

Season 2

Andrew Song is a co-founder of Make Sunsets, a company focused on addressing climate change through solar geoengineering. The company launches balloons filled with sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the strat…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Manifold Discord Channel: Live Q&A with Steve — #90

Season 2

Manifold has its own Discord channel!  https://discord.gg/dvcHS6NX

The purpose of the channel is to create a community of listeners with shared interests. It developed from a series of in-person meetu…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — #89

Season 2

Shams was trained in theoretical physics before becoming an AI engineer at DeepMind and founding the company Mutable, which was acquired by Google. He is now lead engineer for Google's software agent…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Patrick McGee: Apple In China — #88

Season 2

Patrick McGee is a longtime FT business reporter with extensive experience reporting on China. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Apple in China: the capture of the world's greatest company. St…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

GODZILLA DOWN! India-Pakistan Clash and Chinese Military Technology with TP Huang — #87

Season 2

Steve and TP discuss the implications of the recent air battle between India and Pakistan, which involved over 100 fighter jets and took place entirely beyond visual range (BVR). What is sensor fusio…

Published on 3 months ago

Robots, Small Models, and RL with DeepSeek Alumnus Zihan Wang — #86

Season 2

Zihan Wang is an AI researcher at Northwestern University, where he works on vision-language models, robotics, and reinforcement learning. Previously, he interned at DeepSeek, contributing to project…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Dan Collins: Tariffs and the Future of US Manufacturing — #85

Season 2

Dan Collins is Founder of Tyrell Chemical. He studied at Tsinghua University and spent 20 years working for companies like General Motors in China, helping to localize automotive manufacturing. Dan a…

Published on 4 months ago