Complete Tech Heads with Tom Edwards

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This week I'm speaking with Matt Zarb-Cousin, cofounder and director of external affairs at at Gamban, an app that helps you quit online gambling. He is also a recovering gambling addict himself.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:24 - Discovering gambling

03:00 - Rationalization of gambling

08:00 - Brain circuitry and addiction

17:00 - Triggers and the engineering of devices

20:00 - The business model of the gambling industry

28:00 - Gamban intro

31:30 - The difference between having fun and addiction

36:00 - How to approach someone with a gambling problem

41:00 - Impact on mental health

43:00 - Losing control

#gamblingaddiction #technology #gamban

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China is one of the world's biggest AI investors and may soon overtake the USA - but it has no blockbuster consumer products. So where is all the money going? I've dug a little deeper to try to find out.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Chinese investment in AI

01:00 - China's tech crackdown

01:30 - Censorship of AI

02:40 - Centrally planned economies and innovation

03:40 - What China is investing in

05:30 - Data exchanges

06:00 - AI for defence

07:30 - Has China overtaken the West?

#ai #technology #china #geopolitics #defence

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This week I’m speaking with Nick Engerer, the founder of Longevity Media, co-founder at Sage Women’s Health, host of the Reversed Longevity TV series, a triathlete and a PhD in solar radiation science.

Nick's inspires people to believe a truth lost in a sea of fear and limiting beliefs: that you can determine your health future and change your current aging destiny.  His mission is to create a global shift in perspectives of what’s possible for human longevity.

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Timestamps: 

00:00 - Intro

03:00 - Proactive and preventative healthcare

08:00 - Principles of longevity

13:00 - Genetics vs lifestyle

14:00 - Why some people live longer

19:00 - Biological age

24:00 - Testosterone

26:00 - Prostate cancer

29:00 - The possibility of extending human lifespan & current limitations

41:00 - The social implications of an aging society

44:00 - The changing concept of retirement

46:00 - The importance of purpose and connection

47:00 - The impact of retirement on men’s health

50:00 - Movement and exercise

53:00 - Supplementation and personalisation

57:30 - Vitamin D and supplement quality

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This week I’m speaking with Rodrgo Liang, CEO at SambaNova Systems, Softbank-backed full stack AI startup that creates specialised AI chips and software to sell to enterprises.

He’s a former head of engineering at Oracle and HP and holds a masters from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering.

In the show we discuss all things chips - from CPUs, to GPUs, to RDUs and everything in between. We also cover the chip manufacturing supply chain, TSMC, and why designing and building them is so incredibly difficult.

00:00 - Intro

03:25 - CPUs and GPUs

08:00 - The impact AI is going to have on business

12:30 - Building AI from the ground up

18:00 - Using open source to build models for Enterprise

22:22 - RDUs - like GPUs, only better

29:38 - Driving efficiency in AI

37:30 - The crazy physics behind manufacturing chips

44:00 - TSMC

#TSMC #sambanova #ai

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Alex Zhavoronkov, Founder and CEO at Insilico Medicine, is an expert in artificial intelligence for drug discovery and aging research. Since 2014 he has published and co-published over 170 peer-reviewed publications and raised over $400 million in capital. He also has and incredible six clinical trials for drugs discovered using AI.

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

02:00 - What is ageing?

04:30 - Cellular senescence

05:50 - Chronic inflammation

09:00 - AI Drug Discovery

14:00 - Predicting age with AI

16:30 - Generative chemistry

20:30 - Teaching AI to think like a chemist

23:00 - Dramatic acceleration

28:30 - Multimodal transformers

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#ai #longevity #science #genetics

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This week I'm speaking with award-winning author and CEO of Think Atom think tank, Rauli Partanen. In the show, we discuss:

00:00 - Intro

05:56 - The link between human wellbeing and energy consumption

18:11 - The current global energy mix, and decarbonization

20:43 - European gas crisis & deindustrialisation 

25:38 - How important is the pace of decarbonisation?

30:19 - The potential of nuclear energy

35.14 - Why has nuclear been so maligned? 

41:00 - Misconceptions about nuclear energy

42:00 - Nuclear waste

49:00 - Chernobyl and Fukushima

58:30 - Advances in nuclear technology

01:02:00 - Why Can’t the UK build infrastructure?

01:04:36 - The problems with the nuclear pace of deployment

01:07:25 - Building and deploying small modular reactors

LINKS: 

Reports and studies by Rauli's think tank, ThinkAtom:

https://thinkatom.net/publications/

Rauli's Amazon author page:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rauli-Partanen/author/B00M7UVBYK

The Rise of Nuclear Fear - the book mentioned in the show:

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Nuclear-Fear-Spencer-Weart/dp/0674052331

Find Rauli on X: https://twitter.com/Kaikenhuippu

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This week I’m talking all things crypto with the very excellent Jack Jia, Head of Crypto at Unlimit. 

Jack has been working in the crypto space for the last 10 years. He was first employee at Wyre, a first generation fiat onramp that helped wallet users to onboard fiat into crypto. He also had a stint at Consensys leading GTM for Metamask Institution and as Head of BD for Infura. He now returns to payments as Head of Crypto at an establsiehd payment comapny in Unlimit.com

00:00 - Intro

00:50 - DoNotAge.org ad

01:30 - Intro to Jack Jia & background on Cryptocurrency

04:45 - Crypto as a reaction to inflation

06:45 - Intro to Bitcoin ETF & traditional finance

11:15 - Impact of ETFs on Bitcoin’s deflationary nature

13:00 - Perception of gold vs BItcoin

17:00 - Bringing crypto under government control

18:00 - Geopolitical implications of crypto

21:00 - China’s role in global reserve currencies

27:00 - Bitcoin halving and price cycles

30:00 - Bitcoin economics

34:00 - Staking Ethereum & earning 

38:00 - Reframing value in the digital world

40:00 - Governments, inflation and taxation

44:00 - NFTs and cultural memes

49:00 - Assessing the credibility of altcoins

55:00 - The people of Yap

56:00 - Understanding what kind of a buyer you are

01:00:00 - Unlimit

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The stock market's favourite chip maker is hitting crazy new heights - here's the latest on why it's popping and what's next.

#nvda #nvdastock #nvidia

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