Utility + Function

By Matthew Putman

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Utility + Function, a multifaceted, eclectic, and probing podcast hosted by Nanotronics co-founder and CEO, Matthew Putman, covers subjects from Machine Learning, to Jazz, to Community Development. Utility Function, a definition: individual preferences for goods or services. It calculates desire, and therefore, is relative.

Episode Date
Chris Miller: Unpacking the Chip War
May 04, 2023
Anwaar AlMahmeed: Solving the false scarcity problem
Apr 18, 2023
Zoe Weinberg: On the future of our informational democracy
Apr 05, 2023
Tom Irvine: Sensory Data and Operational Jazz
Feb 13, 2023
Björn Lomborg: Climate Change, Public Spheres, and Technological Solutions
Nov 07, 2022
Serge Faguet: Who are we, what have we accomplished, and where are we going?
Oct 13, 2022
K. Eric Drexler: Envisioning Abundance Through Artificial Worlds
Sep 23, 2022
S3-E2: Andre Watson: Personalized Medicine, Our Antidotal Future
Sep 15, 2022
Ranjit Singh: Seeing through the Database
Aug 05, 2022
S2. E18. George Kurtz - Thrill of Entrepreneurship
Sep 03, 2021
E 17. Gaurab Chakrabarti - Understanding the White Space of the Unknown
Jul 09, 2021
E 16. Henrik Fisker - Designing for Experience
Jun 25, 2021
E 15. Gerald Posner - Investigating For Truth
Jun 18, 2021
E14. Gustav Söderström - The Evolution of Music
May 27, 2021
E13. Kate Darling - Robots: Sufficiently Like Us
May 05, 2021
E12. TONY ARCABASCIO - From ALife to the AI-Life
Apr 16, 2021
S2 - E11 - Sarah Williams - Reimagining Cities
Mar 18, 2021
E 10. Shawanna Vaughn - Strength in Community
Feb 26, 2021
E9. Alan Murray - Task Above Ego
Jan 26, 2021
E8. Kweku Mandela - Considering Ourselves Human
Jan 13, 2021
E7. Béla Fleck - The Rights Of The Noble Banjo
Dec 30, 2020
6. Juan Martín Maldacena - Into the Juan Dimension: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and String Theory
Dec 16, 2020
5. Peter Singer - Global Access To Knowledge
Dec 01, 2020
4. Janna Levin - Periphery of Comprehensible
Nov 17, 2020
3. Vijay Kumar - Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration
Nov 03, 2020
2. Lee Smolin - Discovering New Methods
Oct 20, 2020
1. Caroline Buckee - Digging Through The Data
Oct 06, 2020
26. James Gimzewski - Faith in Rarity
Sep 17, 2020
25. Joscha Bach - Asking The Right Questions
Sep 10, 2020
24. Scott Aaronson - Before and After The Machine
Sep 03, 2020
23. Jill Neimark - Marveling at Nature’s Resilience
Aug 27, 2020
22. Stephon Alexander - The Music of Spheres
Aug 20, 2020
21. Gary Marcus - AI Builder, AI Skeptic
Aug 13, 2020
20. Anima Anandkumar - The Immediate and Future Impact of How We Build AI
Aug 06, 2020
19. Pamela McCorduck - History of Artificial Intelligence
Aug 01, 2020
18. Joe Pistone, the Real Donnie Brasco
Jul 09, 2020
17. Najee Dorsey - Building Together
Jul 02, 2020
16. Stephen Wolfram - Inevitable, Beautiful Connections
Jun 25, 2020
15. Tom X. Lee, MD - A Path Toward Healthcare For All
Apr 22, 2020
14. Smriti Keshari - Energy Doesn’t Die
Mar 11, 2020
13. Steve Hanke - And then, there is the 95% Rule
Mar 04, 2020
12. Angeline Butler - Civil Rights Icon, Musical Force, Living Legend
Feb 20, 2020
11. Jeff Holden - Inventions Lifeline
Jan 13, 2020
10. Stephen Delaporte - To Bot or Not
Jan 07, 2020
9. Dan Widmaier - Threads to Sustainability
Dec 16, 2019
8. Alexis Gambis - Butterfly Blues
Nov 15, 2019
7. Beth Comstock - That's My Van Gogh!
Nov 08, 2019
6. Andrew Shearer - How to Grow a Company
Oct 23, 2019
5. Michael Vassar - Does Michael Vassar Dream of Electric Sheep?
Oct 16, 2019
4. Julie Orlando - I Didn't Think There Was Any Way I Couldn't Do it
Oct 10, 2019
3. Antoinette Roberson - Mentorship by Creative Collaboration
Oct 01, 2019
2. David Belt - They're Not All Evil, Right?
Sep 28, 2019
1. John Putman - A Grander Vision
Sep 23, 2019