Castuner

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Misha Shalaginov, Michael Dubrovsky, Xinghui Yin

Technical interviews with the greatest scientists in the world.

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62 episodes

  1. Reinforcement Learning and Quantum Decoding | Vlad Sivak Google Quantum AI 1:41:53
  2. Where Does Intelligence Live? | Michael Levin on Evolution, AI, and Platonic Space 1:28:14
  3. AI, Cancer Vaccines, and the Future of Personalized Medicine | Sid Sijbrandij on GitLab + Biotech 1:40:42
  4. Building Quantum Computers at Semiconductor Scale | John Martinis on Qolab + Superconducting Qubits 2:04:30
  5. Diffraction Limit, Microscopy, and Cell Biology | Eric Betzig on Super-Resolution Microscopy 2:40:30
  6. The Hybrid Architecture Behind Quantum Computing | Yonatan Cohen Quantum Machines CTO 1:52:25
  7. How DNA Sequencing Was Discovered By Accident | Walter Gilbert on Biogen, Industry, and Art 2:08:33
  8. How Bacteria Evolved Rotary Motors | Michael Manson 3:26:10
  9. The Atomic Physics Behind Neutral Atom Computers | Mark Saffman 1:23:08
  10. Silicon Photonics and the Future of AI Scaling | John Bowers 1:39:03
  11. Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, and Two-Headed Worms | Michael Levin 1:27:04
  12. Quantum Architecture, QAOA, and Cancer Biomarkers | Fred Chong 1:59:39
  13. How Quantum Sensors Can Measure Single Electrons | Amir Yacoby 2:01:13
  14. The Physics of Un-Hackable Face Recognition | Rob Devlin on Metalenz 1:13:59
  15. The Real Economics of Data Centers in Space | Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston 1:37:34
  16. How To Make Quantum Algorithms Cheaper | Craig Gidney on Magic-State Factories, Resource Estimates 2:03:47
  17. How Neurons Translate Electricity into Chemistry | Tom Südhof 1:30:27
  18. How Engineers Solve “Impossible” Problems | Dan Gelbart 2:03:45
  19. How Visual Experience Rewires the Brain | Mark Bear on Neuroplasticity 1:55:42
  20. Snell's Law, Metasurfaces, and Metalenses | Federico Capasso 2:13:09
  21. Graphene, Nanotubes, and Quantum Hall Physics | Philip Kim 2:47:03
  22. Quantum Matter, Super-conductors, and Black Holes | Subir Sachdev on the SYK Model 2:34:48
  23. How to Build Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers | Austin Fowler on Surface Codes + TQEC 1:50:14
  24. Why Syncing Atomic Clocks is Virtually Impossible | Judah Levine on UTC 2:04:26
  25. Can We Predict History Like the Weather? | Peter Turchin on Cliodynamics 1:18:29
  26. Why Do Quantum Computers Make So Many Mistakes? | Mikhail Lukin on Quantum Error Correction 1:00:47
  27. We Interviewed the Winners of the Ig Nobel Prize | Ig Nobel 2025 1:05:36
  28. What Science can Learn from Startups | Adam Marblestone on Focused Research Organizations 1:41:22
  29. What Optical Atomic Clocks Tell Us About Space-Time | Jun Ye 1:52:35
  30. Laser Cooling and Quantum Timekeeping | Bill Phillips 2:24:10
  31. Inside the Battle for Psychedelic Therapy | Rick Doblin 2:38:02
  32. Biology's Biggest Chicken and Egg Problem | Jacob Fine 1:31:04
  33. The Final Interview with MIT Physicist Keith Johnson 2:15:37
  34. How We Build Telescopes to Explore the Early Cosmos | Brian Keating 1:43:30
  35. Quantum Complexity: Scott Aaronson on P vs NP and the Future 2:01:49
  36. Science Memes, Epigenetic Inheritance, and Rethinking Peer Review 1:33:09
  37. Quantum Diamond Sensing: The Surprising Power of NV Centers 2:21:20
  38. Origin of Life, Thermodynamics, and God: Jeremy England 2:19:27
  39. Flux Grant by 1517 Fund: Backing Garage Science and Sci-Fi Tech 47:01
  40. Trapped Ion Quantum Computing: Christopher Monroe of IonQ 2:25:12
  41. Maintaining Moore's Law: Lithography, Semiconductors, and Chip Fabrication with Mordechai Rothschild 2:07:52
  42. Quantum Cascade Lasers: Federico Capasso on Curiosity and Bell Labs 1:32:38
  43. How Edison Inspired Eli Yablonovitch to Create Four World-Changing Inventions 3:00:34
  44. From Failed PhD to Nobel Prize | John Mather’s Journey to Revolutionize Astronomy 1:53:34
  45. Hunting for Alien Artifacts | Avi Loeb 3:37:27
  46. Are We Doomed? | Dan Aronovich on Norbert Wiener's 1948 “Cybernetics” 58:34
  47. Information, Entropy & Reality | MIT Professor Seth Lloyd on Quantum Computing 2:03:02
  48. From Medieval Glass to Nobel Prize | Moungi Bawendi on Mastering Quantum Dots 1:31:15
  49. How a Vision Disorder Led to Shocking Brain Science Discoveries | Mark Bear on Neuroplasticity 1:35:36
  50. The Current Reality of Quantum Computing | Yudong Cao on Deploying Quantum for Real-Life Problems 1:52:41