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Το περιεχόμενο παρέχεται από το Duncan Reyburn. Όλο το περιεχόμενο podcast, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των επεισοδίων, των γραφικών και των περιγραφών podcast, μεταφορτώνεται και παρέχεται απευθείας από τον Duncan Reyburn ή τον συνεργάτη της πλατφόρμας podcast. Εάν πιστεύετε ότι κάποιος χρησιμοποιεί το έργο σας που προστατεύεται από πνευματικά δικαιώματα χωρίς την άδειά σας, μπορείτε να ακολουθήσετε τη διαδικασία που περιγράφεται εδώ https://el.player.fm/legal.

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Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying math that powers modern machine learning to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives, even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…

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In this episode, I look at the question of what it might be in different/alternate perspectives on theology that causes alarm and offence. To answer the question, I make use of a little bit of psychoanalysis, and, in particular, I refer to Jacques Lacan's idea of "master signifiers". The reading list for this episode is pretty short; the only book referred to directly is Lionel Bailey's "Lacan: A Beginner's Guide."

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In this episode, I look at the question of what it might be in different/alternate perspectives on theology that causes alarm and offence. To answer the question, I make use of a little bit of psychoanalysis, and, in particular, I refer to Jacques Lacan's idea of "master signifiers". The reading list for this episode is pretty short; the only book referred to directly is Lionel Bailey's "Lacan: A Beginner's Guide."

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171 | Kafkatrapping and metaphysical boredom 29:12

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You can support my work here (if you'd like to): patreon.com/unorthodoxy Subscribe to my substack: duncanreyburn.substack.com

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170 | When the dragon eats the knight 24:13

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Some reflections on the nature of the demon called liberalism. See also: https://duncanreyburn.substack.com/p/when-the-dragon-eats-the-knight

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169 | The prophet and the prostitute 23:36

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In a strange but philosophically potent story told in the Hebrew Bible, God gives his prophet Hosea some rather odd instructions. God commands Hosea to take for himself a wife of “whoredom” and to raise “children of whoredom” (Hosea 1:2). Hosea will be committed to a focused point of attention. He will be a symbol of the monogamy that loves and cherishes one woman no matter what. But his wife Gomer will remain promiscuous and inattentive. Because she will always look elsewhere for companionship, she will never love very deeply and she will struggle perpetually to receive love. As we'll explore in this episode, this story is mainly about worship. It symbolises the way meaning is made manifest depending on how we attend to reality. In a sense, attention is reality . What we worship determines what sort of meaning we’ll find.…

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168 | To render identity consumable 21:46

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Available in text here: https://duncanreyburn.substack.com/p/to-render-identity-consumable

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167 | The Hidden (Mirthful) Face of Christ 26:58

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A recording of a paper delivered during an online conference, Philosophical Theologies in South Africa (hosted by Hugenote Kollege) on 24 March 2022. Abstract: At the very end of his book Orthodoxy (1908), G. K. Chesterton makes a claim regarding the “pathos” of Christ, which was “natural,” and “almost casual.” However, Chesterton contends that one dimension of Christ’s pathos remained remarkably hidden, namely his “mirth.” The word “mirth” is quite literally the last word of that book. Because we have no record of Jesus laughing in the Gospels, just as we have no idea what he actually looked like, this conclusion is offered as a matter of fancy. It is perhaps not unexpected that Chesterton would say this, though, given his own personality and inclinations. Those familiar with his work will recognise his association with joy and humour. Since Chesterton offers no explicit justification, however, the question remains open as to whether there may be more than a merely subjective reason for it. Perhaps it is possible to account for such a conclusion on a philosophical and theological basis. My aim is to do that in this paper. More particularly, I want to articulate how there is, in Chesterton’s writings—especially exemplified in his novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1907)—a kind of incarnational phenomenology at work that allows him to reconcile other more explicit dimensions of Christ’s pathos with an undisclosed mirthful exuberance.…

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166 | (Critical) Thinking 38:30

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A lecture on a foundation for critical thinking.

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165 | Man’s Search for Meming 21:10

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A brief exploration of memes, via what we might joking call the will to meming, as expressions of our desire to make sense of the world. You can catch this podcast on various platforms: Amazon Audible, Spotify, Google, Apple, and Podbean. You can read a transcript of this episode here: https://duncanreyburn.substack.com/p/mans-search-for-meming…

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164 | Understanding Creativity - 04 - Analogy 18:50

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In this last episode in this brief series on understanding creativity, we look at how analogy functions as the core of cognition; and conclude with a few thoughts on assessing whether our creative ideas are any good. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn

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163 | Understanding Creativity - 03 - Meaning 14:18

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In this episode, we look at how meaning-finding and meaning-making work in relation to creativity with reference to Chekhov's famous so-called gun. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn

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162 | Understanding Creativity - 02 - Insight 21:40

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We're briefly exploring some dimensions of creativity in four short episodes. In this episode, we explore how creativity is tied to insight. In this episode we look at what insight is, as well as how to find insights through pattern recognition and pattern naming. Support: Patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn…

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161 | Understanding Creativity - 01 - Revaluation 17:46

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We'll be taking a brief break from the Genesis of Meaning series to explore some dimensions of creativity. In this episode, we explore how creativity is more an issue of revaluation than of sheer novelty and the fact that this means attending to limits more than to the act of breaking out of them. Support: Patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn…

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160 | The Genesis of Meaning - 04 - Symbols 19:08

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In this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy

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159 | The Genesis of Meaning - 03 - Light 23:35

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In this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy

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158 | The Genesis of Meaning - 02 - Beginning 25:37

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In this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy

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157 | The Genesis of Meaning - 01- Plausibility 24:08

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In this series, we'll be exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about the most primal experiences we have of meaning and of being in the world Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy

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