Zhens‪'‬ Zhen Rong Yap and Zhen Wei Yap

Eito Miyamura (Twitter: @Eito_Miyamura) is the President of the Oxford University Blockchain Society and is exploring the intersection of AI and Blockchain. In this 1hr+ session, we discuss web3 and geopolitics, chips and AI, noise and truth. Tune in for a great session!
Time stamps:
00:27 Hackathons all over the world
02:28 Oxford Blockchain Society and web3
18:44 Web3 - Geopolitics and War
24:37 Bits and Atoms - Long Live TSMC
31:26 What are universities? + Learning programming
40:02 Finding truth in a world of complexity
46:00 More AI content than content made by humans?
50:02 Misinformation - premise, argument and conclusion
58:48 Eclectic Eito, Japanese Nationalism, Masayoshi Son of Softbank
01:04:46 Inspirations - Doug Leone
01:07:25 HomeDAO / Oxford Crypto Village
01:009:59 Where to reach out?

Technology has not only advanced the field of science through new methods and inventions, but it has also made podcasting a more accessible and diverse platform for exploring a wide range of subjects. PhD candidate at University College London, Ursule Demael shares her love for biosciences. She topped her year at Oxford in biomedical science and runs the HOLOBIONT podcast. We discuss about T-cells in immunotherapy, biotech and her interests in podcasting.
Links of interest:
https://twitter.com/HOLOBIONT_
https://sites.google.com/view/www-holobiont-com/home
Timestamps:
00:31 The New Year
01:08 Background
05:56 Direction of COVID-19
12:19 T-cells and Immunology
17:30 Holobiont Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/3nGItqmYzJaostOe6imR2A
22:47 Computation and Biology
26:15 Interdisciplinary Research and Nucleate - Empowering Biotech Leaders
https://www.nucleate.xyz/
35:04 Why did you start the Holobiont Podcast
https://anchor.fm/holobiont
39:57 Any other podcasters you listen to?
42:24 Who inspires you?

How to do the impossible!? Dr. Scott Roberts is a materials technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Materials Development and Manufacturing Technology Group. He develops new materials, processing techniques, and technologies for the use in the aerospace field. He is as close to an inventor as it gets! Listen to a world class expert in bulk metallic glass, porous metal 3D printing and living life! Tune in for a great session!
NASA JPL page: https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/scott-roberts
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottroberts4/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LRw8nicAAAAJ&hl=en
Consulting: http://metallicglassconsulting.com/about_us/scott_roberts/
Timestamps:
01:10 Love for cats
05:03 Working at JPL - inventing for space!
10:53 Inventing within the Materials Development and Manufacturing Technology Group (Impossible design specifications)
Metallurgy Facility: https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/metallurgy-facility
18:11 What is a technologist at JPL?
25:09 Can a metal also be a glass?
Bulk Metallic Glass for robots: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161129103309.htm
Scott’s PhD: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/8049/
45:54 Flying your technology on space missions
Bulk Metallic Glass Gears for Lunar Night Capable Actuators: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/survivethenight2018/pdf/7019.pdf
50:49 NASA 2022 Spinoff - ultrasonic + additive manufacturing?
Article: https://fabrisonic.com/fabrisonic-featured-in-nasa-spinoff-magazine/
55:59 The impossible again! - Porous metal 3D printing
Article: https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/nasa-jpl-team-shows-results-of-porous-metal-printing-pbf-process/
01:05:35 The molecular replicator
01:07:30 Technology vs Climate Change
01:14:55 Science is sales
01:22:05 Love of national parks
Utah National Parks: https://www.nps.gov/state/ut/index.htm
01:29:40 Exploring and appreciating cities
01:32:17 Best advice received
01:36:12 Next steps
01:39:44 To find Scott’s work and reach out

‘Reaching back through space and time to Ukiyo-e masters of the past.’
Bram Tan is an artist with an industrial design background. He enjoys thinking broadly about the world and how everything technological works. He also believes that artistic pursuit is an affirmation to oneself that the future WILL be positive and good. He makes Ukiyo-e prints with a 3D printer. Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
https://www.bramtan.com/
Timestamps
00:52 Summer in Paris
Andrew Huberman on dopamine and the brain
https://youtu.be/LG53Vxum0as
03:37 Design work - Ukiyo-e - Japanese Art
11:29 Connecting people to artists through space and time
19:20 Science nerd, art, and technology
28:02 What is industrial design? Original Apple computers
38:34 Designing the designer
Grasshopper
https://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/download-1
Algorithms for grasshopper
https://www.food4rhino.com/en
52:16 Contact by Carl Sagan
54:48 Imagining the future!
01:04:43 Difference in living in Malaysia vs UK vs France
01:09:02 Bunker club trip to Poland for Ukraine
01:14:41 Truly realising the war
01:20:22 Discussion around power
01:25:20 War and Art
01:27:35 The Settlers of Catan
01:32:30 Where can people find your work?

Paul Festor is a PhD candidate in computer science at Imperial college, London working on applying reinforcement learning to sepsis. He is passionate about bringing AI and machine learning to the healthcare industry and helping to save lives. In this session, we discuss many topics from ancient civilisations to the pursuit of science to his experience doing a PhD, digging deep during the COVID-19 pandemic, and finding perspective. He also talks about his experience about how we are just a few key actions away from amazing experiences. Tune in for a great session!
Research Group: https://faisallab.org/members/paul-festor
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-festor/?originalSubdomain=uk
Timestamps:
00:55 PhD Project
1:34 Sepsis
3:38 Reinforcement learning on data from ICU beds and sensors
5:06 Framing the reinforcement learning problem and difference with other machine learning methods
10:16 Gamification in healthcare
16:34 Sifting through ICU data
18:42 Motivation for the PhD
21:04 Pure and applied research
Imperial College Professor Eric Laithwaite on superconductors: Magnetic River 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_HFnNTfyU&ab_channel=ImperialCollegeLondon
Professor Richard Feynman’s nanotechnology lecture: "There's P lenty of Room at the Bottom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRCygdW--c&ab_channel=MuonRay
25:04 Other technologies
27:47 Most difficult part of a PhD / low income SWE?
33:03 Trends in machine learning academia
38:19 Bringing value to the world through data science, AI, and software engineering
39:51 French Tertiary Education system
48:33 Learning Reinforcement Learning by reinforcement
49:32 Thoughts about ancient and modern civilisations
55:32 Nihilism and appreciation of the adventure of life
01:01:57 Doing a PhD, getting stuck, and finding perspective
01:15:58 AI news - Oxford Union debates ethics of AI with an AI
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59687236
01:24:14 Deepmind co-founder Mustafa Süleyman and Inflection AI on conversational AI
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/13/inflection-ai-led-by-linkedin-and-deepmind-co-founders-raises-225m-to-transform-computer-human-interactions/
01:27:58 AI on mobile devices, productivity, app development
01:37:05 Impact in science communication and making AI and data science more accessible to doctors
01:51:47 Quantifying uncertainty
01:56:02 Piano in stations worldwide and planting seeds
https://www.ted.com/talks/dotan_negrin_searching_for_the_key_of_life
02:05:48 Next steps
02:10:35 Where can people find your work and reach out to you?

Sahasrajit Ramesh is a freelance consultant in business strategy and finance in the power sector, previously working at Aurora Energy Research. He topped his year in materials science at the University of Oxford and did his 4th year at MIT in computational materials. He writes a blog on personal growth and spirituality. He is also looking to launch a coaching business and online products related to spirituality and psychotherapy. He is a deep thinker that is not afraid to share his emotional experiences to help others. Tune in for a great session!
00:45 Working and living in London
02:09 Working at Aurora Energy Research
07:14 How do you think the energy market is going to change?
10:30 Thoughts on COP26
14:29 For purpose businesses e.g Olio
15:35 What is the future of energy? Hardware or software?
19:11 Web3, energy, and infrastructure
22:57 Materials Science at Oxford
30:00 Academics, research and culture at MIT vs Oxford
37:34 How did you top your year at Oxford?
40:21 What is your favourite material?
43:31 Spirituality coaching and psychotherapy
01:13:36 E-book on spirituality and the thoughts of benefitting financially from helping
others
01:32:00 Self-doubt and world views
01:41:00 The myth of the specialist?
01:42:40 Navigating imposter syndrome and introspection
02:00:33 Blog on spirituality, consciousness, and introspection
02:04:17 5 day plan instead of 5 year plan
02:12:12 My journey into consciousness
02:15:02 Where can people find your work or reach out to you?