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Conversations With Jon

Conversations With Jon

by Jon Yeo, Jonathan Lim

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Season 1

Episode 17: The Logic Of Life by Tim Harford (Part 2)

Timeline 00:00 - 14:28 Chapter 4 (Why Your Boss Is Overpaid) 14:28 - 22:43 Chapter 5 (In The Neighbourhood) 22:43 - 30:54 Chapter 6 (The Dangers of Rational Racism) 30:54 -37:32 Miscellaneous learnings over the week Main Points Office Politics: Goodhart’s Law, Why CEO pays are drastically higher, Areas of Rich/Poor in cities tend to stay the same, "Rational Racism" and phenomenon of “Acting White”, Why often the needs of the few are met over needs of many, Group settings amplify biases & first speaker importance Links Charles Booth Map: https://booth.lse.ac.uk/map/16/-0.1740/51.4994/0/0?marker=526848.0,179409.0 John Conway’s Game of Life: https://playgameoflife.com Veritasium Video: https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo

Episode 16: The Logic Of Life by Tim Harford (Part 1)

Timeline 00:00 - 04:40 Overview 04:40 - 20:14 Chapter 1 (Introduction) 20:14 - 26:50 Chapter 2 (Las Vegas) 26:50 - 40:14 Chapter 3 (Is Divorce Underrated?) Main Points: Rational Choice Theory, Inherent Irrationality in Human Behavior, Endowment Effect, Rational does not equal to Intellectual, John Von Neumann’s Game Theory, Thomas Schelling’s Red Telephone, Comparative Advantage

Episode 15: Deep Medicine by Eric Topol (Part 3)

Topics discussed: ML models to predict time of death in palliative care Random Walk (Mathematics) Wearable Technology tracking Health Reductionistic thinking in Medicine Debate about how we talk about ‘battling’ sickness Time stamps 0:47 - 06:35 Chapter 9 (AI and Health Systems) 06:41 - 17:36 Chapter 12 (The Virtual Medical Assistant) 17:36 - 19:26 Reflections on Cambridge Analytica, as shown on Netflix 19:26 - 20:20 Automating Research Mini-project 20:20 - 22:51 OpenAI’s GPT-3

Episode 14: Deep Medicine by Eric Topol (Part 2)

Topics discussed: Machine learning (ML) models such as Neural Networks, Random Forest and eXtreme Gradient Boosting Implications of Black Boxes In-built biases in ML models Public perception & debate on the existential threat of AI Limitations of Natural Language Processing (NLP) (I.e. non-verbal communication) Time stamps 0:47 - 1:07 Chapter 4 (The Skinny On Deep Learning) 01:07 - 16:13 Chapter 5 (Deep Liabilities) 19:11 - 23:03 Chapter 8 (Mental Health) Sidetrack ~ 21:31 Telegram Bot Automation

Episode 13: Deep Medicine by Eric Topol (Part 1)

Main Idea: AI will take over the administrative side of medicine, and assist doctors to make better decisions by providing more accurate predictions (i.e. patient recovery period), and optimise resource allocation (i.e. how many days a patient has to stay in hospital) Time stamps 01:49 - 06:42 Overview of Book 07:26 - 08:43 Preface 08:43 - 09:51 Chapter 1 (Introduction to Deep Medicine) 09:51 - 18:19 Chapter 2 (Shallow Medicine) 18:19 - 25:33 Chapter 3 (Medical Diagnosis) Side track~ 25:33 - 27:00 Book Recommendation: Noise by Daniel Kahneman 27:00 - 28:56 Importance of Data Cleaning when building ML models 28:56 - 30:08 Rule-Based Thinking Biases 30:08 - 33:32 Sharing about an insight about Dementia Useful Links Visualisation of Sort Algorithms (mentioned @ 5 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg&t=49s

Episode 12: Experience Vs Knowledge

This week we talk about the relationship between experience and knowledge and whether one should value one over the other. We also touch lightly on how AI may shift this dynamic between experience and knowledge. Timestamps: 08min 03s: Exp vs Knowledge 14min 55s: The value of degrees 26min 56s: Will AI disrupt that dynamic 37min 20s: Emphasis on communication

Episode 11: Ryan Ho

This week, we chat with Ryan who shares his experiences as a NS Policeman, his internship as an editorial writer, university, and his perspectives on the importance of "Putting yourself out there". Timestamps: 5min 14s: Experiences as a NS Policeman 15min 03s: Interning as an Editorial Writer 19min 53s: "Putting Yourself Out There"

Episode 10: Jing Zheng on Productive workflows, Stoicism and Finance

In this episode Jon Yeo invites Jing Zheng (JZ) on as a guest on the show to talk about how we organise our life and manage our knowledge. We then talk briefly about having stoicism as a life philosophy. JZ also talks passionately about finance and investing towards the end of this wide-ranging episode. Timestamps: 2min 50s: Productive workflows 16min 55s: JZ gives some thoughts on finance matters 20min 10s: Stoicism 41min 20s: Conversation turns back to finance, JZ talks about Crypto and investing

Episode 9: Authenticity and talking to people

This week we talk about talking to people, and we discuss how authentic we are when we interact with different groups of people.

Episode 8: Liang Kai | Zacc Chen

This week Liang Kai shares about his experiences studying in Canada, and Zacc shares about his passion for film making.

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