Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss whether lane changing gets you anywhere.
Oct 14, 2016•19 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser talk about what the presentation of shop fronts tells up about signalling and quality.
Oct 08, 2016•22 min
Fraser, Peter, and Nick discuss how machine learning can be used to fight online fraudsters, with special guest Mairtin O'Riada, CIO of Ravelin.
Sep 30, 2016•29 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss the value of playing games and whether they can help you learn.
Sep 23, 2016•22 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why it is so hard to spot future potential in ideas.
Sep 16, 2016•22 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser ponder the length of podcasts and what that tells us about the size of an idea.
Sep 09, 2016•26 min
Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the film Sunspring, written by an artificial intelligence. Is it a novelty or a sign of things to come?
Sep 02, 2016•20 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what the Olympics show us about the the human pursuit to reach for the limits of performance.
Aug 26, 2016•21 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss mechanisms of government decision making in the wake of the Chilcot Report. http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk
Aug 19, 2016•25 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss ad blocking and what it can tell us about messaging.
Aug 13, 2016•17 min
Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what summer is, and how we know when it's started.
Aug 05, 2016•19 min
Fraser, Nick and Peter consider the use of Big Data for prediction of terrorist attacks. New online ecology of adversarial aggregates: ISIS and beyond: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6292/1459
Jul 29, 2016•22 min
Fraser, Nick and Peter wonder if they have had enough of experts.
Jul 24, 2016•19 min
In the wake of the Brexit vote, Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what referendums can tell us, and what technology means for democracy.
Jul 15, 2016•20 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser return to the Library of Babel and discuss how to go about building one.
Jul 09, 2016•16 min
Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what the point of averages is, and whether we will need them any more in a world of machine analysis.
Jul 01, 2016•19 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why Leicester City winning the Premier League was perhaps not all that surprising.
Jun 25, 2016•18 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser make some irrational assertions about decision-making.
Jun 18, 2016•22 min
Peter, Nick, Fraser and special guest Andres get lost in the vastness of Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel and discuss what it tells us about probability, information, language and meaning.
Jun 10, 2016•19 min
Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the the hit 1980s movie, The Karate Kid, and what it suggests about learning and skills development.
Jun 03, 2016•17 min
Peter, Fraser and Nick discuss the threat posed by rare hamburgers, and ways of assessing risk in the absence of data.
May 27, 2016•17 min
Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the 2016 spike in celebrity deaths, how the scientific method applies to analysing it, and some of the fundamental constraints of fame.
May 20, 2016•16 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what Cuftsgate tells us about classification and categorisation.
May 16, 2016•17 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what cosmopolitanism is, and how it affects our beliefs about the world.
May 06, 2016•15 min
The rise of Donald Trump prompts Nick, Peter and Fraser to discuss the limits of forecasting behaviour.
Apr 29, 2016•14 min
Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what AlphaGo's triumph over Lee Sedol might mean for analysis and decision making.
Apr 22, 2016•16 min
