Do We Like Living in DataWorld and iPhones and the End of History with Ben Recht and Leif Weatherby

Do We Like Living in DataWorld and iPhones and the End of History with Ben Recht and Leif Weatherby

Author: Time To Say Goodbye September 11, 2024 Duration: 1:22:54

Hello!

Today we have a fun conversation with recurring guest Ben Recht, a professor of computer science and machine learning at UC Berkeley and Leif Weatherby, an associate professor of German at NYU. We talk about the article they wrote about Nate Silver’s latest book, the world of Big Data, and then we start talking about how maybe the inability for the iPhone to improve might signal a type of end of history. This was a fun one with lots of random asides with two very smart people so please enjoy!



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