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Second Breakfast: Department of War, Warrior Culture, Sicario, Dick Winters, SEALs in North Korea,
We're going weekly.
Outtro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk18bFIgOS4&ab_channel=ThereIRuinedIt
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6 months ago
The Robotics Revolution
Ryan Julian is a research scientist in embodied AI. He worked on large-scale robotics foundation models at DeepMind and got his PhD in machine learni…
6 months ago
Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
Manoj Kewalramani of the Takshashila Institution and the Tracking People's Daily substack https://trackingpeoplesdaily.substack.com/ alongside James…
6 months, 1 week ago
Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
Our third defense pod, I guess we're really doing it now.
Like and subscribe if you're just here for our Civil War coverage.
Guests include:
Tony…6 months, 1 week ago
War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
For the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan, ChinaTalk interviewed Ian Toll about his Pacific War trilogy, which masterfully brings Ame…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Wang on Modern China
Dan Wang at long last makes his solo ChinaTalk debut! We’re here to discuss and celebrate his first book, Breakneck.
We get into…
Engineering stat…6 months, 2 weeks ago
Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo, FedFest, Bolton
Israeli/Ukranian-style bolt from the blue drone attacks freak out Eric.
I don't buy Silicon Shield.
Lessons from Waymo on about the future of warfare…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
Are GPUs being smuggled into China? Nvidia says no. But Steve Burke, editor in chief of Gamer Nexus, has traced out the entire smuggling chain in an …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
Mick Ryan is a retired major general in the Australian army and author of three books — War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Pow…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajinomoto
Jon, Doug, Dylan and Wei join the chat to talk export controls and GPT5.
Books Doug and I like:
Jonathan Spence's Search for Modern China Gavan …7 months ago