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Back to SearchYasheng Huang: China's Examination System and its impact on Politics, Economy, Innovation — #45
Season 2
Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is The Rise an…
2 years, 8 months ago
Huawei and the US-China Chip War — #44
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TP Huang is a computer scientist and analyst of global technology development. He posts often on X: https://twitter.com/tphuang.
Steve and TP discuss:…
2 years, 9 months ago
Meritocracy, SAT Scores, and Laundering Prestige at Elite Universities — #43
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Steve discusses 10 key graphs related to meritocracy and university admissions. Predictive power of SATs and other factors in elite admissions decisi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Aella: Sex Work, Sex Research, and Data Science — #42
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Aella is a sex worker, sex researcher, and data scientist.
Aella on X: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl
Interviews with ex-prostitutes on the pimp life (…
2 years, 10 months ago
AI on your phone? Tim Dettmers on quantization of neural networks — #41
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Tim Dettmers develops computationally efficient methods for deep learning. He is a leader in quantization: coarse graining of large neural networks t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Paul Huang, the real situation in Taiwan: politics, military, China — #40
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Paul Huang is a journalist and research fellow with the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation. He is currently based in Taipei, Taiwan.
Sample articles:
Tai…
2 years, 11 months ago
Richard Hanania & Rob Henderson: The Rise of Wokeness and the Influence of Civil Rights Law — #39
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Steve Hsu, Richard Hanania, and Rob Henderson were scheduled for a June 2023 panel as part of the University of Austin (UATX) Forbidden Courses serie…
2 years, 11 months ago
Richard Sander (UCLA Law) on the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling — #38
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Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.
Steve and Richard discuss the recent Su…
3 years ago
AI Cambrian Explosion: Conversation With Three AI Engineers — #37
Season 2
In this episode, Steve talks to three AI engineers from his startup SuperFocus.AI.
0:00 Introduction
1:06 The Google memo and open-source AI
14:41 Spar…
3 years ago
David Goldman: US-China Competition, AI, Electric Vehicles, and Manufacturing — #36
Season 2
David Paul Goldman is an American economic strategist and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Sp…
3 years, 1 month ago