The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

Today's Episode is an interview Max gave on Learn Bayesian Statistics by Alex Andorra in 2019, covers the trajectory of his career and interests, and all the different uses of Bayesian Inference. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

Max talks about Alphabet's DeepMind launch of Gato AI - a large scale transformer model. Some of the researchers believe that they are on the path to human level intelligence while others disagree. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

One of the founders of podcasting itself, Adam Curry, joins The Local Maximum today to talk about podcasting 2.0, podcastindex.org, and how to keep podcasting decentralized. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

Max talks about the financial tsunami predicted last year starting to come to fruition, and then dives into a 2001 article by Joel Spolsky and takes a more positive view of architecture astronauts. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

Joel Valenzuela visits the Local Maximum studio to talk about how he lives off of cryptocurrencies, the value in coins like Dash over Bitcoin for this purpose, liberty in New Hampshire, and general analysis of recent developments. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

We learn about corporate governance and corporate politics in order to understand Elon Musk's bid to takeover Twitter. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

Max talks about Professor Johnathan Haidt's article in the Atlantic "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life have been Uniquely Stupid". We compare the techno-optimism of 2011 to the techno-pessimism of today, and contrast the different prescriptions on what to do about it. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

Today’s guest is Dr. Alan Cowen, CEO of hume.ai, to discuss fascinating new research on human emotional states, and how machine learning and AI techniques can be used to distinguish between them. Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

Max responds to the news that Elon Musk has bought a considerable stake in Twitter. A recent blog post by Andrew Gelmans shows that while language models from OpenAI and Google are exciting, they still don't know what they are talking about!localmaxradio.com/220 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe

Max talks to René Morkos, CEO of ALICE Technologies about how AI is being used to make construction projects more efficient.localmaxradio.com/219 Get full access to The Local Maximum at localmaximum.substack.com/subscribe