Zhens'
by Zhen Rong Yap and Zhen Wei Yap
Two brothers into science, technology, and entrepreneurship
Podcast episodes
Season 2
Finding Truth in Atoms and Bits
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?
The Intersection: Art of Podcasting, Immunology and Technology
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?
Season 1
Impossible Materials for Impossible Missions
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
Design, Technology and Ukiyo-e
‘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?
Reinforcement Learning for medicine and life
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?