Bit of a Tangent

031 | Kat Woods — Effective Altruism, Infohazards, and Brain Hacks

Kat Woods is an effective altruist and the co-founder of Nonlinear, which incubates longtermist...

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030 | Predictive Processing 3: Neurobiology, Prediction, and Computational Psychiatry

In this episode, Gianluca and Jared discuss the neurobiology of predictive processing, the role...

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029 | Predictive Processing 2: Where The Action Is

This week’s episode of Bit of a Tangent is a continuation of our 3 part series on Predictive...

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028 | Predictive Processing 1: The World You Thought You Knew

It's here. It's finally here! The first in a series of three episodes diving into the predictive...

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027 | 7 Practices to Survive the 2020 Apocalypse

Gianluca and Jared have survived 2020 (so far) and are back for Season 3 of Bit of a Tangent. In...

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026 | Drink and be Rational

[Epistemic status: slightly intoxicated] Jared and Gianluca exchange rapid-fire questions whilst...

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025 | Self-Supervised Machine Learning: Introduction, Intuitions, and Use-Cases

On this episode of Bit of A Tangent, we discuss the emerging field of self-supervised machine...

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024 | Replacing Guilt

Gianluca announces his latest project—the audio version of Nate Soares’ Replacing Guilt...

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023 | Are Brains Just Neural Nets?

Jared and Gianluca have an uncompromising exchange about computational neuroscience and its...

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022 | 6 Books You Need to Read in 2020… and 1 You Probably Shouldn’t

Gianluca presents his much-requested three non-fiction and three fiction recommendations for...

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021 | The Top 19 Ideas from 2019

Bit of a Tangent is back! In this episode, Jared shares the 19 ideas he couldn’t stop thinking...

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020 | Mental Models 3: Fantastic Biases and Where To Find Them

This is part 3 of the series on Mental Models, in which Gianluca and Jared discuss the cognitive...

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019 | Mental Models 2: How To Think Like A Bayesian, Avoid Black Swans, & Know The Value of Your Decisions

This is part 2 of our series on Mental Models. In it, we’re bringing you the most useful and...

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018 | Mental Models 1: How To Have Better Ideas and Improve Your Thinking

This is part 1 of a new series on Mental Models - tips, tricks, and tools to add to your mental...

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017 | Bronwyn Williams: Universal Basic Income & Individual Sovereignty

This episode features the much-anticipated conversation with Bronwyn Williams on the topic of...

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016 | Free Will, Compassion, and Reinforcement Learning

This is part 2 of our series on free will! In this episode we reconcile how it is that we can...

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015 | You have no Choice in the Matter

This is Part 1 of the series on Free Will. In this episode, Gianluca and Jared dispel the...

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014 | The Art of Looking - Part 1 of ??

Jared and Gianluca try something new on this episode! We read passages from Robert Pirsig’s...

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013 | How To Learn Anything!

We’ve all heard about the importance of learning. We’ve all heard about the importance of...

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012 | How Deep Learning Does Magic

This is a discussion about why deep neural nets are unreasonably effective. Gianluca and Jared...

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