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…
Its time for another weekly anime review and oh boy is it something great this week for a show that seems to be getting slept on, but before we get to that we kick it off with a heartfelt episode of Solo Leveling (1:00). This of course is followed up by the brave and stunning Shangri-La Frontier (11:55). Sakamoto Days (20:55) and Rezero (31:25) back up the next part of the review, and then we bid farewell to Dragonball Daima (49:45). FINALLY we finish up the anime portion of this review with the sleeper of the year so far Zenshu (57:10) and the tradgic fate of an unsuspecting best boy. We kick off the manga review portion of the episode with Kagurabachi (1:11:5) and then we finish out the long episode with the latest chapter of One Piece (1:29:30). Support the show…
We are taking a gander at some other up and coming manga right now to add to the review. So we have taken a look at Kagurabachi, which studios have been fighting over the rights to animate. We talk the first 10 chapters and if we will be keeping up with it moving forward!! Support the show
We are back with another weekly anime review and we kick it off with the action pack (and new demon hotty packed) Solo Leveling (0:54). We follow that up with the VR experience that is Shangri-la Frontier (12:57). Up next is the backstory packed Sakamoto Days (25:35), followed up by and ok episode of Re:Zero (34:40). Quick on its heels the nostalgia driven Dragonball Daima and Goku's blast from the past (45:00). We finish out the anime portion with Zenshu (56:10). Finally we round out the week with our manga review of One Piece chpt 1140 (103:45). Support the show…
We are here to break down our thoughts on Brandon Sanderson's Wind and Truth. This is the fifth installment in the Stormlight Archive series and what was suppose to be the grand finale to the first arc of the series was a bit of a flop. We break down all our thoughts, and our numerous dislikes on the book and talk about what we hope for for the future. Support the show…
Lets get another week or relatively consistent anime reviews done!!!! We kick it off with the show that just keeps spoiling us Solo Leveling. Followed up by the nerdtastic Shangri-La Frontier. Then we back that up with Sakamoto Days on Netflix. That is follow up by the returning Re:Zero , Dragonball Daima backs that up and we finish the week with the review of Zenshu. Support the show…
Lets get another week or relativly consistant anime reviews done!!!! We kick it off with the show that just keeps spoiling us Solo Leveling (1:25). Followed up by the nerdtastic Shangri-La Frontier (10:20). Sakamoto shows us what a true weight loss plan is in Sakamoto Days on Netflix (17:06). That is follow up by the returning Re:Zero (forgot to get a time stamp for this one), Dragonball Daima backs that up (35:35) and we finish the anime portion of the review with Zenshu (41:15). We finish out the week with our Manga review of One Piece chapter 1139 (47.20). Support the show…
Invincible has returned to show us that superhero fatigue is not a real thing, other people just suck at making superhero content. They kick off the new season with a three episode drop that has some familiar faces and of course some explicit content!! We break down what we loved and what we are pumped to see. Support the show…
Keeping up with this fantastic three peat of anime review we kick the week off with Solo Leveling (1:55) continually followed up by the soon to be water logged Shangri-la Frontier (9:15). Sakamoto Days continues to be our number three spot as our protagonist sheds some much needed marriage weight (19:25). Dragonball Daima keeps us lighthearted )27:25) and Zenshu depresses the heck out of us as we finish up the last of the anime (35:55). FINALLY we have our One Piece Manga review chapter 1138 to finish out the episode. Support the show…
Time for another weekly anime review as it is the staple of this podcast. We keep up with the new line up of Solo Leveling followed by Shangri-la Frontier. We back up these bangers with our current favorite on Netflix, Sakamoto Days. Zenshu is the isekai of the season for us and we finish up with Dragonball Daima. Eventually we will be back to the one piece manga as it is blowing up right now. Support the show…
We cover one of the worst lists of all time. Screen rant has complied a list of the top 50 or so anime ever and guess what they decided to do.... not include the best anime on this list. We break down the whole thing in game form. Support the show
Time for another weekly anime review and we have some news. Kicking it off with Solo Leveling season two amazing but still glad we didn't see the movie. Followed up by the sleeper Shangri-la Frontier, backed up by Sakamoto Days!! We finish it out Zenshu which is.... interesting to say the least. No manga this week because we forgot. Support the show…
Its time for another anime review right before we take a week or so break for the all important holiday of Christmas. We kick it off with Dan da Dan and a complete intro of Gi Gi's character! Followed up by Shangri-la Frontier and then Dragonball Daima. Support the show
We return to the world of Roshar in the newest installment of the Stormlight Archive: Wind and Truth. We are only 30ish hours into the book so far so we recap what we have read thus and talk about our first impressions of the highly anticipated book. Support the show
WEEEEEEEE ARE BACK, after a series of unfortunate events which cauased us to take a multi week break we have returned to bring you that oh so good anime content. We kick the week off with our favorite in the current run Dan da Dan (2:00). Followed up by the returning contender Shangra-la Frontier (10:35) and we back track a little on this one to catch up. Concluding our anime review portion this week (because re:zero has yet to have another episode) we jump back into Dragonball Daima (21:50). As always to conclude the review then jump into the manga spoiler section as we talk about the latest one piece chapter 1133 (31:23). Support the show…
مرحبًا بك في مشغل أف ام!
يقوم برنامج مشغل أف أم بمسح الويب للحصول على بودكاست عالية الجودة لتستمتع بها الآن. إنه أفضل تطبيق بودكاست ويعمل على أجهزة اندرويد والأيفون والويب. قم بالتسجيل لمزامنة الاشتراكات عبر الأجهزة.