Hidden Forces | 9 October 2018 | 0h 59m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with mathematician and public educator, Hannah Fry, author of Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms. Uses lots of stories to introduce and classify algorithms; discusses responsibility and human behaviour in response to algorithms; and a real-world example of the trolley problem of who to kill.
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Claude Shannon and Information Theory
Hidden Forces | 11 June 2018 | 0h 57m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Jimmy Soni, co-author of A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age. Provides an accessible introduction to the key ideas in information theory, packaged into the story of Shannon’s life.
Bill Browder on High Finance, Corruption and Murder in Russia
Hidden Forces | 19 February 2018 | 1h 07m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Bill Browder, once the largest foreign investor in Russia, but now the leader of a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. Highlights the story told in the 2015 bestseller Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.