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Understanding the Elegant Math Behind Modern Machine Learning 1:14:43

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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 mathematical concepts that power 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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The Panther in the Cage

منذ 7 أعوام 38:48

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The all about the cages that we live in, ones that people put us in, ones that sometimes we construct for ourselves.

I hope you enjoy this little voyage into Rilke’s world.

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#Society #Books #Arts #Podcasting Education #Los Angeles #Marcos McPeek Villatoro #Mount St Marys University

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers

The Panther in the Cage

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers

published منذ 7 أعوام

MP3•منزل الحلقة

The all about the cages that we live in, ones that people put us in, ones that sometimes we construct for ourselves.

I hope you enjoy this little voyage into Rilke’s world.

29 حلقات

#Society #Books #Arts #Podcasting Education #Los Angeles #Marcos McPeek Villatoro #Mount St Marys University

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The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers

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The Panther in the Cage 38:48

منذ 7 years38:48

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Today’s show is a recording of a poetry show I did at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles, where I teach. I took Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “The Panther,” memorized it, and performed it for the students, along with other poems that followed the theme. The all about the cages that we live in, ones that people put us in, ones that sometimes we construct for ourselves. I hope you enjoy this little voyage into Rilke’s world.…

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Writer Susana Marcelo, The Old Country and New Writing 36:30

منذ 7 years36:30

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Susana Marcelo is a professor at California State University Northridge, a writer, poet, essayist, and. . .well, a lot more! In our interview, we spend time on what it means to write in the different genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction), and how many of us like to push against those definitions, crossing from one genre to another. We spoke at the Associated Writing Program conference in Tampa Florida this past March.…

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Kennia Lopez: A New Voice in Literature 32:57

منذ 7 years32:57

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Ken Lopez is a Mexican and Salvadoran poet from Kansas City. She hopes her work will, like Chinua Achebe said, tell the story of the hunt from the perspective of the lion. She will be pursuing her MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College in the fall. I had the chance to interview her at the Associated Writing Program Conference in Tampa this past March, her insights into literature, politics, culture and society are both challenging and refreshing.…

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José Orduña: Writing and Justice 29:13

منذ 7 years29:13

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I met José Orduña at the Associated Writing Program conference in Tampa, Florida this past spring. He had arrived at the conference about 48 hours after getting arrested in D.C. for civil disobedience, fighting for the rights of DACA recipients. José is a Professor of creative writing at the University of Nevada. His take on what “creative nonfiction” is took me through a world of social activism, scholarship, and revelation. His passion for all three is palpable, as you’ll hear in his words.…

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George Plimpton, Graywolf Press and the State of Literature Today 30:37

منذ 7 years30:37

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Today’s podcast of The Writing Bull offers you a two-fer: Years ago I had the opportunity to interview one of the founders and the editor of The Paris Review, George Plimpton. You might recognize him, his face popped up all over the place in the second half of the twentieth century, playing in a professional baseball game or a bit part in a movie. This past March, I had the chance to interview Steve Woodard, the editor of Graywolf Press, a publishing house that goes against the norms of New York publishing. Steve and I talk about some of the books they’ve recently published, as well as their conscious decision to seek out more writers of color. Enjoy!…

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The Exiled Poet: Guisell Gomez 33:44

منذ 7 years33:44

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While I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Florida this past month, I met Guisell Gomez, a student of creative writing and a published poet. Born in Colombia, she and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She remembers the move, the brutal act of being torn out of your own culture to live in another one. I have been on the lookout for students of creative writing, some who will be our future poets and novelists and memoirists–if they’re not already! And Guisell was a wonderful find. I love it when we old folks can learn from our young ones.…

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Art and Madness 36:12

منذ 7 years36:12

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There are studies on the connection between the artistic impulse and mental illness. The best are books written by Kay Redfield Jamison, especially her “Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.” In that book, she charts hundreds of writers, from George Gordon Lord Byron to Virginia Woolf, and reveals how the mental illness played a role in their writing. In this podcast, I speak about my own struggles with manic-depression, and how it has played a role in my own impulse to write, my own need to get words on the page that reflect whatever’s in my head. It relieves the pressure; and, if I’m lucky, it’ll make for a good piece of literature.…

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Francisco Aragón: Literary Activist 44:24

منذ 7 years44:24

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Poet Francisco Aragón is doing is doing more for U.S. Latinx literature than any person I know. While writing his own work, he’s also always pushing and promoting the literary works of others, namely, the new Latinx writers on the block. He’s the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He directs Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he’s been faculty member since 2003. He’s one of those activists who are in it for the long run, who does not tire of shaking the world awake to the beautiful writing coming out of our Latin American-American worlds.…

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Poet Alexandra Regalado: Life Seen Through the Bulletproof Glass 42:47

منذ 7 years42:47

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When I attended the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa, Florida in March, I sought out Latinos, because the last time I went to the conference, about ten years ago, AWP truly deserved the nickname that people of color gave it: “All White People.” “Matria,” by poet Alexandra Lytton Regalado. It’s a powerful collection that wraps you up, with a unique and intimate voice, in the world of El Salvador. It’s still a majority white, but I found the Latina/o/x writers and sat down with every one of them I could, to talk about their writing and the Latinx writing world in general. Alexandra Lytton Regalado is a real find. She’s a Salvadoran-American poet, born in El Salvador, raised in Miami; she then moved back to El Salvador, where she and others launched Kalina Press , which publishes Salvadoran writers from all over the world, in both English and Spanish. She’s also the author of the poetry collection, Matria , published by Black Lawrence Press. It is a powerful book that brings the reader, in an intimate way, to the world of El Salvador. I’m considering teaching it next year. On this podcast, I have a few words to say about what I’ll call the la jodida de Junot Díaz , or, in English, “The Junot Díaz cluster-fuck.” Junot Díaz is a novelist who has been in the news lately, due to accusations of sexual harassment. I have a few things to say about that as well. Enjoy!…

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El Testimonio: César Vallejo y la búsqueda de mis raíces 25:36

منذ 7 years25:36

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Every once in a while I do a podcast in Spanish, and talk about what it means to be Latino today, in the U.S. Porque, para mí, el español siempre fue, y es, el idioma de amor–ese amor de la niñez, cuando las mujeres de la casa en mi pueblo natal, San Francisco, CA–las tías, primas, abuelas y mamá–me hablaron con ese ¡ Ay mi corazón, rey de mi vida! amor. Luego fuimos a vivir en Tennessee, la tierra de mi padre. Y en esa región, el español se desecó. Para rescatarlo de la Nada de Gringolandia, me puse a estudiar la literatura española, donde encontré un fragmento de mi alma.…

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The Salvadoran, Hip-Hop, Mormon Voice of William Palomo 45:16

منذ 7 years45:16

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I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa in March, where students and professor of creative writing gather for a weekend. I had a great time, because I was on the lookout for Latino writers, and I found them. And this young man was a true find! William Palomo is the son of […]

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Your Death Is Not a Blip 33:15

منذ 7 years33:15

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We all die. But, most people don’t like to think about that, which I think is a mistake. I find it helpful to consider my own death from time to time. It reminds me I’m alive. Poets help me to meditate on my own demise. A good poet will look death straight-on, and not flinch. […]

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Brian Greene, String Theory, and the Fabric of the cosmos. Made Easy. 31:26

منذ 7 years31:26

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I interviewed Brian Greene a few years back, about his book The Fabric of the Cosmos. Now, I know this isn’t about creative writing, but the creative writer is always looking into other subjects and fields of study in order to feed her own work. And Dr. Greene is fascinating! My mind got bent all sorts of […]…

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Why I Read Poetry 47:40

منذ 7 years47:40

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When my kids were little, I told them early on: don’t let your school get in the way of your education. Our education system kills beautiful things within us, and one of those casualties is our love for poetry. Poetry. I’m not talking Hallmark cards, or boxes of candies, or any of that shit. I’m talking […]…

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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 4 41:04

منذ 7 years41:04

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I forgot to mention, the 1967 Mustang plays a big role in this novel. It’s practically another character. It’s the summer of 1978, a few months after Tony cut his wrist. The whole family knows about it, but, unlike other families who try to avoid such difficulties and pretend nothing’s wrong, the women of the […]…

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