#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
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The following is a conversation with Anna Farbell, an astrophysicist at MIT, studying the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy in order to understand the chemical and physical conditions of the early universe and how from that our galaxy formed and evolved to what it is today, the place we humans call home. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Hexclad for well-designed and well-engineered cookware. Numerae for the world's hardest data science tournament. And House of Macadamias for delicious snacks. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our team, World was Hiring, go to lexfriedman.com slash hiring.
And now onto the full ad reads. Never any ads in the middle. I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by a new sponsor, Hexclad, the maker of well-engineered and patented... in quotes, hybrid cookware. I don't know what that means. All I know, it looks badass. I got it a couple of weeks ago. I already cooked a couple of steaks on it. It's just perfect. My goal for this weekend, actually, is to cook an omelet on it, but it works perfect for steak, non-steak. I don't know how they do it, but as they say, it has the... performance of stainless steel, the durability of cast iron, and it has non-toxic and non-stick coating.
The steaks, in case you were wondering, were delicious. I like it about medium rare, and there's probably a lot more to be said about how I like to cook steak in different conditions, when I'm traveling, when I'm at home, all that kind of stuff. But yeah, steak is the simple meal i return to time and time again for a source of uh simple happiness and fulfillment almost exclusively i've been eating one time a day and so it's steak big steak with uh a bunch of veggies on the side if i'm going keto and just steak if i'm going carnivore Anyway, go to hexclad.com and use code LEX to get 10% off your entire order. That's hexclad.com and use code LEX for 10% off your entire order. This show is also brought to you by Numerai, a hedge fund that I've talked a bunch about in the past.
It uses machine learning to make investment decisions, and it's a tournament that challenges data scientists from all over the place to construct predictive models for financial markets, and then it uses those models to help people make financial decisions. If you're a data scientist and you want to be involved, this is an amazingly interesting, complex, difficult and impactful machine learning tournament and challenge. I think too often in the machine learning community, the problems will work with the toy problems. And so I really love the idea that Numeri is creating this problem, this giant problem that is not at all a toy. It's working with real markets and real money. That's to me super exciting.
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It's the only nut rich in omega-7s. I think a long time I was reading, what is the healthiest nut? And macadamias were up there. I believe they were at number one in the website I was looking at. And I was heartbroken to find out that I think peanuts were at the bottom. And you know, so much of my life I've wasted on peanuts when I could have been spending all this valuable time with macadamia nuts.
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