Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest James Wilson, who is asking questions about computation and its energy cost, discussing being there for his students through dialogue, and appreciating the small wins in life.

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People mentioned:

• Phillip Hall
• Chris Genly
• William (Bill) Kantor
• Laslo (Laci) Babai
• Uriya First, University of Haifa
• Joshua (Josh) Maglione, University of Galway

Citations:

• "The threshold for subgroup profiles to agree is log n-2 Theory of Computing", James B. Wilson. Vol. 15, pp. 1--25, 2019.
• "A spectral theory for transverse tensor operators". Uriya First, Joshua Maglione, James B. Wilson. arXiv:1911.02518
• "Law of the Excluded Middle, see Stanford Encyclopedia"
• "Deepseek-r1: Incentivizing reasoning capability in LLMs via reinforcement learning". Daya Guo, et al. arXiv:2501.12948
• "Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less". Greg McKeown. Crown Currency, 2014.
• "Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away". Annie Duke. Penguin, 2022.

Link to Transcript:

• Transcript

Producer & editor:

• Joshua Mendel
• Bluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.social

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