Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 158 was recorded in February of 2026. In this episode, Matt sits down with Marshall Abrams, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to talk about evolutionary theory and his book, Evolution and the Machinery of Chance. Click here to download Episode 158 of Elucidations. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Miranda Abainza Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Gabriella Gonzalez, creator of the Dhall Programmable Configuration Language, longtime evangelist for the Haskell Programming Language, author of the Haskell for all blog, and Engineering Manager at Arista Networks. She is here to discuss the intersection of algebra and programming. Gabriella Gonzalez, welcome. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman. Joseph Diller: I’m Joseph. Matt Teichman: With us today is Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, co-host of the Minds Almost Meeting podcast, and author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain, and he’s here to talk about prediction markets. ...
What’s kicking, internauts? This is a blog post explaining how to build fully statically-linked OCaml executables in a Docker environment, then copy them out of your Docker environment into your filesystem.1 Prerequisites This post assumes an “I run Linux on my computer” and “I write sofware in a programming language that compiles to machine code” level of tech-savviness. Although I develop in OCaml on Arch Linux, this post is nonetheless likely to be of interest if you are a developer who isn’t on Arch Linux, and it may very well even be of interest if you don’t use OCaml. If you have no idea what any of these computer words mean, please feel free to get in touch with me and I’ll be happy to write a follow-up post explaining whatever you’d like to know about. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 157 was recorded in September of 2022. Full transcript here. In this episode, Matt and Joseph sit down with Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, to discuss prediction markets. Click here to download Episode 157 of Elucidations. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman. Joseph Diller: And I’m Joseph Diller. Matt Teichman: With us today is Oliver Traldi, postdoc at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and visiting assistant professor at the University of Tulsa Honors College. He is here to discuss political expertise. Oliver Traldi, welcome. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes as Trans-Expert. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Rebecca Lowe, Philosophy Senior Research Fellow and Director of Emerging Scholars at the Mercatus Center, and she’s here to discuss speaking freely. Rebecca Lowe, welcome to Elucidations. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Miranda Abainza Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Christos Lazaridis, a neurointensivist at the University of Chicago, and he’s here to discuss brain death. Christos Lazaridis, welcome. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today are Lainie Ross, Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics at University of Chicago Medicine, and Christos Lazaridis, Associate Professor of Neurology at University of Chicago Medicine. They are here to talk about defining death. Lainie and Christos, welcome. ...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 156 was recorded in June of 2024. Full transcript here. For this episode, Matt Teichman and Joseph Diller sit down with Oliver Traldi (University of Toledo, Mercatus Center) to talk about political expertise. Click here to download Episode 156 of Elucidations. ...