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  • Eito Miyamura (Twitter: @Eito_Miyamura) is the President of the Oxford University Blockchain Society and is exploring the intersection of AI and Blockchain. In this 1hr+ session, we discuss web3 and geopolitics, chips and AI, noise and truth. Tune in for a great session!

    Time stamps:

    00:27 Hackathons all over the world

    02:28 Oxford Blockchain Society and web3

    18:44 Web3 - Geopolitics and War

    24:37 Bits and Atoms - Long Live TSMC

    31:26 What are universities? + Learning programming

    40:02 Finding truth in a world of complexity

    46:00 More AI content than content made by humans?

    50:02 Misinformation - premise, argument and conclusion

    58:48 Eclectic Eito, Japanese Nationalism, Masayoshi Son of Softbank

    01:04:46 Inspirations - Doug Leone

    01:07:25 HomeDAO / Oxford Crypto Village

    01:009:59 Where to reach out?

  • Technology has not only advanced the field of science through new methods and inventions, but it has also made podcasting a more accessible and diverse platform for exploring a wide range of subjects. PhD candidate at University College London, Ursule Demael shares her love for biosciences. She topped her year at Oxford in biomedical science and runs the HOLOBIONT podcast. We discuss about T-cells in immunotherapy, biotech and her interests in podcasting.

    Links of interest:

    https://twitter.com/HOLOBIONT_

    https://sites.google.com/view/www-holobiont-com/home

    Timestamps:

    00:31 The New Year

    01:08 Background

    05:56 Direction of COVID-19

    12:19 T-cells and Immunology

    17:30 Holobiont Podcast

    https://open.spotify.com/show/3nGItqmYzJaostOe6imR2A

    22:47 Computation and Biology

    26:15 Interdisciplinary Research and Nucleate - Empowering Biotech Leaders

    https://www.nucleate.xyz/

    35:04 Why did you start the Holobiont Podcast

    https://anchor.fm/holobiont

    39:57 Any other podcasters you listen to?

    42:24 Who inspires you?

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  • How to do the impossible!? Dr. Scott Roberts is a materials technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Materials Development and Manufacturing Technology Group. He develops new materials, processing techniques, and technologies for the use in the aerospace field. He is as close to an inventor as it gets! Listen to a world class expert in bulk metallic glass, porous metal 3D printing and living life! Tune in for a great session!

    NASA JPL page: https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/scott-roberts

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottroberts4/

    Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LRw8nicAAAAJ&hl=en

    Consulting: http://metallicglassconsulting.com/about_us/scott_roberts/

    Timestamps:

    01:10 Love for cats

    05:03 Working at JPL - inventing for space!

    10:53 Inventing within the Materials Development and Manufacturing Technology Group (Impossible design specifications)

    Metallurgy Facility: https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/metallurgy-facility

    18:11 What is a technologist at JPL?

    25:09 Can a metal also be a glass?

    Bulk Metallic Glass for robots: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161129103309.htm

    Scott’s PhD: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/8049/

    45:54 Flying your technology on space missions

    Bulk Metallic Glass Gears for Lunar Night Capable Actuators: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/survivethenight2018/pdf/7019.pdf

    50:49 NASA 2022 Spinoff - ultrasonic + additive manufacturing?

    Article: https://fabrisonic.com/fabrisonic-featured-in-nasa-spinoff-magazine/

    55:59 The impossible again! - Porous metal 3D printing

    Article: https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/nasa-jpl-team-shows-results-of-porous-metal-printing-pbf-process/

    01:05:35 The molecular replicator

    01:07:30 Technology vs Climate Change

    01:14:55 Science is sales

    01:22:05 Love of national parks

    Utah National Parks: https://www.nps.gov/state/ut/index.htm

    01:29:40 Exploring and appreciating cities

    01:32:17 Best advice received

    01:36:12 Next steps

    01:39:44 To find Scott’s work and reach out

  • ‘Reaching back through space and time to Ukiyo-e masters of the past.’

    Bram Tan is an artist with an industrial design background. He enjoys thinking broadly about the world and how everything technological works. He also believes that artistic pursuit is an affirmation to oneself that the future WILL be positive and good. He makes Ukiyo-e prints with a 3D printer. Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

    https://www.bramtan.com/

    Timestamps

    00:52 Summer in Paris

    Andrew Huberman on dopamine and the brain

    https://youtu.be/LG53Vxum0as

    03:37 Design work - Ukiyo-e - Japanese Art

    11:29 Connecting people to artists through space and time

    19:20 Science nerd, art, and technology

    28:02 What is industrial design? Original Apple computers

    38:34 Designing the designer

    Grasshopper

    https://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/download-1

    Algorithms for grasshopper

    https://www.food4rhino.com/en

    52:16 Contact by Carl Sagan

    54:48 Imagining the future!

    01:04:43 Difference in living in Malaysia vs UK vs France

    01:09:02 Bunker club trip to Poland for Ukraine

    01:14:41 Truly realising the war

    01:20:22 Discussion around power

    01:25:20 War and Art

    01:27:35 The Settlers of Catan

    01:32:30 Where can people find your work?

  • Paul Festor is a PhD candidate in computer science at Imperial college, London working on applying reinforcement learning to sepsis. He is passionate about bringing AI and machine learning to the healthcare industry and helping to save lives. In this session, we discuss many topics from ancient civilisations to the pursuit of science to his experience doing a PhD, digging deep during the COVID-19 pandemic, and finding perspective. He also talks about his experience about how we are just a few key actions away from amazing experiences. Tune in for a great session!

    Research Group: https://faisallab.org/members/paul-festor

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-festor/?originalSubdomain=uk

    Timestamps:

    00:55 PhD Project

    1:34 Sepsis

    3:38 Reinforcement learning on data from ICU beds and sensors

    5:06 Framing the reinforcement learning problem and difference with other machine learning methods

    10:16 Gamification in healthcare

    16:34 Sifting through ICU data

    18:42 Motivation for the PhD

    21:04 Pure and applied research

    Imperial College Professor Eric Laithwaite on superconductors: Magnetic River 1975

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_HFnNTfyU&ab_channel=ImperialCollegeLondon

    Professor Richard Feynman’s nanotechnology lecture: "There's P lenty of Room at the Bottom”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRCygdW--c&ab_channel=MuonRay

    25:04 Other technologies

    27:47 Most difficult part of a PhD / low income SWE?

    33:03 Trends in machine learning academia

    38:19 Bringing value to the world through data science, AI, and software engineering

    39:51 French Tertiary Education system

    48:33 Learning Reinforcement Learning by reinforcement

    49:32 Thoughts about ancient and modern civilisations

    55:32 Nihilism and appreciation of the adventure of life

    01:01:57 Doing a PhD, getting stuck, and finding perspective

    01:15:58 AI news - Oxford Union debates ethics of AI with an AI

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59687236

    01:24:14 Deepmind co-founder Mustafa Süleyman and Inflection AI on conversational AI

    https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/13/inflection-ai-led-by-linkedin-and-deepmind-co-founders-raises-225m-to-transform-computer-human-interactions/

    01:27:58 AI on mobile devices, productivity, app development

    01:37:05 Impact in science communication and making AI and data science more accessible to doctors

    01:51:47 Quantifying uncertainty

    01:56:02 Piano in stations worldwide and planting seeds

    https://www.ted.com/talks/dotan_negrin_searching_for_the_key_of_life

    02:05:48 Next steps

    02:10:35 Where can people find your work and reach out to you?

  • Sahasrajit Ramesh is a freelance consultant in business strategy and finance in the power sector, previously working at Aurora Energy Research. He topped his year in materials science at the University of Oxford and did his 4th year at MIT in computational materials. He writes a blog on personal growth and spirituality. He is also looking to launch a coaching business and online products related to spirituality and psychotherapy. He is a deep thinker that is not afraid to share his emotional experiences to help others. Tune in for a great session!

    00:45 Working and living in London

    02:09 Working at Aurora Energy Research

    07:14 How do you think the energy market is going to change?

    10:30 Thoughts on COP26

    14:29 For purpose businesses e.g Olio

    15:35 What is the future of energy? Hardware or software?

    19:11 Web3, energy, and infrastructure

    22:57 Materials Science at Oxford

    30:00 Academics, research and culture at MIT vs Oxford

    37:34 How did you top your year at Oxford?

    40:21 What is your favourite material?

    43:31 Spirituality coaching and psychotherapy

    01:13:36 E-book on spirituality and the thoughts of benefitting financially from helping

    others

    01:32:00 Self-doubt and world views

    01:41:00 The myth of the specialist?

    01:42:40 Navigating imposter syndrome and introspection

    02:00:33 Blog on spirituality, consciousness, and introspection

    02:04:17 5 day plan instead of 5 year plan

    02:12:12 My journey into consciousness

    02:15:02 Where can people find your work or reach out to you?

  • Michelangelo Valtancoli is an early stage VC investor at Stride.VC and previously the podcast host of Almost Founders, where he provided high quality, straight to the point information on being a founder, raising, and building. He placed top 10 in Bayes Business School and was an avid actor in Italy and Michigan, USA during his year abroad. In this 1hr+ session, we discuss acting entrepreneurship, venture capital, AI in the entertainment industry and approaches to acting. Tune in for a great session!

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelangelovaltancoli

    Are you raising pre-seed to series A? Send me your Pitch Deck: [email protected]

    VC and Founders

    1:15 Early stage VC as a first job

    https://stride.vc/

    5:29 How would you describe VC (Venture Capital)?

    8:04 Building vs VC - the contagious enthusiasm of founders

    13:14 Working with and learning from big names in VC

    19:31 Why go to VC after talking about entrepreneurship on Almost Founders?

    25:15 Almost Founders podcast

    https://open.spotify.com/show/6EMNZGQ0jbyMJdAQRyFn40

    30:44 Getting information - using twitter and finding ecosystems

    34:41 Team interactions in EF and VC - how is VC and the startups ecosystem changing?

    https://www.joinef.com/

    42:49 Keeping on top of new changes and information + generalist vs specialist fund

    52:52 Starting another podcast?

    1:00:25 Gen Z vs previous generations

    1:03:50 What motivates you to help out and work with students?

    1:09:25 London vs Europe VC ecosystem

    1:11:45 I am a VC t-shirt! Loving VC!

    Acting and the Entertainment Industry

    1:12:46 Acting experience - does it make it easier to do podcasting?

    1:16:58 Stepping into a character, body language, and most difficult character to play

    1:27:35 Dissertation on AI affecting the entertainment industry

    1:31:48 AI in collaborative storytelling, comedy and non-standard patterns of thinking (Deepmind)

    https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc21/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ICCC_2021_paper_118.pdf

    1:40:31 Getting back into the entertainment industry... but as a VC!

    Impact and motivations

    1:42:48 Curiosity as motivation for creating impact

    1:45:23 Michelangelo’s inspirations: Dad >> Matthew McConaughey (What is a son without his father? - Dune)

    1:47:54 What are the next steps?

    1:49:12 Where can people find your work?

  • Jack Chong is the President of OX1 Incubator, the only ideation-to-seed stage incubator in Oxford which awards £50,000+ equity-free grants, and is a PPEist at Christ Church, Oxford. In this 1hr+ session, we discuss the entrepreneurial space in Oxford, London and Stanford, philosophy of technology, and the RICH brunch club. He's a builder and thinker at heart fashioning himself as a concept engineer, community engineering, and a token engineer. Tune in for a great session!

    Blog: https://www.jack-chong.com/

    0:55 Background on how we met

    1:50 Jack’s journey from aspiring diplomat to tech founder and the hacker house

    https://www.jack-chong.com/aboutme/

    7:00 Tech scene in Jordan

    7:46 On the FBI candidates in Jordan

    9:01 Currently building in web3 and crypto!

    10:26 Where do you see yourself in the ecosystem of deeptech, biotech and crypto scientists and engineers?

    12:09 What is your theory of ideas people vs objects people vs people people?

    13:48 What are the problems with stablecoin and building in it?

    17:11 Mental models in tech and how to reduce noise to signal ratio

    19:04 Signal to noise ratio on YouTube and Twitter

    21:17 Researching topics for the blog - Pret Subscription, Great Man to Great Founder Theory

    https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/why-prets-subscription-model-is-great-consumers-but-terrible-for-business/

    https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/the-great-founder-theory-musk-bezos-and-instagram/

    25:09 On the philosophy of technology. What does it mean?

    29:07 Going to a deeper layer of abstraction

    31:30 On a new Moore’s law? Improvements in space travel, software and biology

    36:56 On Meta/Facebook and being quite meta

    40:30 Corporate sector vs startups - why is everyone doing investment banking, consulting etc?

    https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/adventurers-imperialism-hongkong/

    47:09 What is it about startups and building that gets you excited? How do you think about money?

    50:50 A Tale of Two Worlds: Stanford vs Oxford

    52:55 Act against entropy: London RICH brunch club and OX1 Incubator

    https://www.ox1incubator.com/

    1:00:33 What is the RICH house in Oxford?

    https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/a-manifesto-to-build-the-rich-house/

    https://cherwell.org/2021/11/17/oxfords-first-hacker-house-for-the-rich-by-the-rich/

    1:03:47 Next steps - concepts engineer, community engineer and token engineer

    1:04:51 Where can people find your work and reach out to you?

  • Why are malaria vaccines so hard to make?

    Lawrence Wang is an MD-DPhil candidate in vaccine research at Oxford, a medical school student at UC San Diego, and a NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholar at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Intramural Research Program (IRP). In this 1hr+ session, Lawrence and I discuss everything from malaria vaccines to cytokine storms to benefits of doing an MD-PhD. He has written many articles on med school insider, has a public health paper out on the private sector drug shops and anti-malarials in Uganda, and fences foil on the Oxford blues fencing team. Tune in for an exciting session!

    2:20 Malaria Vaccine and DPhil work

    4:16 Monoclonal antibodies

    8:53 How do you isolate antibodies?

    13:02 £30,000 experiment - Berkeley Lights machine

    23:23 Cytokine Storm!

    35:53 Malaria vs Immune System

    45:52 Current Malaria Vaccines

    50:48 Chicken Pox and Dengue

    51:42 Malaria trials on children

    52:37 Scaling vaccine production

    56:40 Recent thoughts on COVID-19 - other variants...

    58:59 Benefit of doing an MD-PhD

    1:01:05 Cost of £30,000 experiment - Berkeley Lights machine

    1:02:14 Public health research on privately owned anti-malaria drug shops in Uganda - https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-018-2454-7

    1:08:18 Perceptions of vaccines in rural Uganda

    1:10:33 Malaria and economics - https://www.abpi.org.uk/value-and-access/vaccines/economic-and-societal-impacts-of-vaccines/

    1:12:36 Med Insider Blogs

    https://medschoolinsiders.com/author/lawrencewang/

    1:15:21 Reflections on an MD-PhD

    1:17:15 Year abroad at UCL - Infection and Immunity

    1:21:31 Lawrence’s inspirations and role models - Bill Gates and Anthony Bourdain (Chef)

    1:24:45 Fencing vs medical training + nutrition and injuries

    1:36:37 Next steps

    1:39:36 Where can people reach out to you?

    [email protected]

  • In this 1hr+ session, Nihir Vedd, founder of feather-ai and a PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing at Imperial College London, and I discuss everything from transformers in machine learning to NLP in stand-up comedy to AI model marketplaces. Tune in for a great session!

    0:46 RICH Brunch - https://cherwell.org/2021/11/17/oxfords-first-hacker-house-for-the-rich-by-the-rich/

    3:31 London PhD life - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvedd/

    4:39 Natural Language Processing PhD project

    6:26 Vision for Feature-ai and AI model marketplaces - https://www.feather-ai.com/

    15:10 AI model marketplaces and benefit to businesses and ads agencies

    18:13 Inspiration for the feather name

    22:04 Value of industry software engineering experience

    31:36 Inspiration for the PhD project - child’s dream of a decision making machine

    34:40 Discussion on natural language processing as a route to artificial general intelligence

    41:27 Transformers - the machine learning type and the robot type!

    47:55 Problems with Transformers

    52:23 Problems with small datasets and machine learning

    56:49 Research vs industry on machine learning model implementations and pipelines

    1:01:58 Goals of OpenAI vs Deepmind

    1:07:30 Deepmind effects on science - AlphaGo

    1:08:07 Deepmind using NLP for collaborative storytelling and comedy and non-standard patterns of thinking

    https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc21/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ICCC_2021_paper_118.pdf

    1:14:21 Areas in deep learning

    1:16:45 Why start a YouTube channel? - Transformers, Traction & Feather-ai

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzzXdsl0U4E-pfMzG9oYKwg

    1:20:08 Next steps and how to get in touch?

  • In this 1hr+ session, James N Graham, a DPhil candidate at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, and I discuss phase field models in soft active matter, computational neuroscience, the importance of physical intuition and lego design. Tune in for a great session!

    James' Website: jngraham.com

  • In this 1hr+ session, Sabrina Wang, a DPhil candidate at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, and I discuss materials modelling, quantum computing, inspiration for physics and 3D animation (Blender Dilettante). Tune in for a great session!

  • In this 1hr+ session, Dr. Andrew Shapiro, the Co-Founder and CTO of Proteus Space Inc. and formerly the manager of technology formulation at NASA JPL, and I discuss everything from nanomaterial production to the changing space industry to small satellite propulsion. Tune in for a great session!

  • In this 1hr+ session, David Heath, the President of the Oxford University Rocketry Society, and I discuss everything rockets from aerospikes to machine learning in fluid dynamics to rotating detonation engines in space. Tune in for our first episode!