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Max Dama on HFT: Millisecond Algos and Bid/Ask Dynamics — #92
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, L...
Andrew Song: Global Cooling with Sulfur Dioxide in the Stratosphere — #91
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 sul...
Manifold Discord Channel: Live Q&A with Steve — #90
Manifold has its own Discord channel! https://discord.gg/dvcHS6NXThe purpose of the channel is to create a community of listeners with shared interests. It developed ...
Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — #89
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 engi...
Patrick McGee: Apple In China — #88
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 ...
GODZILLA DOWN! India-Pakistan Clash and Chinese Military Technology with TP Huang — #87
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 r...
Robots, Small Models, and RL with DeepSeek Alumnus Zihan Wang — #86
Zihan Wang is an AI researcher at Northwestern University, where he works on vision-language models, robotics, and reinforcement learning. Previously, he interned at D...
Dan Collins: Tariffs and the Future of US Manufacturing — #85
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...
Seeking Truth From Facts: AI, China, Tariffs, Geopolitics — #84
This episode is a co-release with the podcast Seeking Truth From Facts: https://seekingtruthfromfacts.substack.com/Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues L...
Incels, Evo Psych, and Modern Literature with ARX-Han — #83
Steve speaks with ARX-Han, an anonymous writer, about his book "Incel."Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.–Stev...
Callum Williams: Economics, AI, and Technological Progress — #82
Callum Williams is a senior economics writer for The Economist. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard, and Cambridge, and is the author of The Classical School: The Birth...
Misha Laskin, Reflection.ai — From Physics to SuperIntelligence
Misha Laskin is CEO of Reflection.ai. He was trained in theoretical physics at Yale and Chicago before becoming an AI scientist. He made important contributions in Rei...
Taylor Ogan, Snow Bull Capital: China's tech frontier, the view from Shenzhen, Part 2
Taylor Ogan is Chief Executive Officer of Snow Bull Capital, based in Shenzhen, China. His firm invests in Chinese technology companies, with a focus on areas such as ...
Ken Liu: Art in the Age of AI — #79
Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novel translations and original short fic...
US-PRC Tech War: DeepSeek AI and 6th Generation Fighters — #78
Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.--Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathema...
Jim Haslam: Covid Origins and Coronavirus Genetic Engineering — #77
Relevant links:Jim Haslam on X: https://x.com/jhas5Jim's Substack: https://jimhaslam.substack.com/Jim's book, "COVID-19: Mystery Solved," on Amazon: https://www.amazon...
Joscha Bach: Consciousness and AGI — #76
Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, mental representati...
Adventures in Physics, Trump, and more, with the Information Theory podcast — #75
This episode is an interview I did with the new podcast Information Theory. The host of Information Theory is an anonymous technologist trained in physics and machine ...
Pascal Lottaz: Neutrality, Geopolitics, and International Conflict — #74
Pascal Lottaz is Associate Professor at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law & HakubiCenter. His research area is Neutrality Studies - the study of neutrality as a concep...
Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024 — #73
Links to X posts made during my trip - check out the whole timelineduring this period. PPP and US vs PRC Real GDPhttps://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1851653168158949492 P...