Archive - Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

RKUL: Time Well Spent, 07/14/2025

Bastille Day edition

Jul 15 •

Genghis Khan, the Golden Horde and an 842-year-old paternity test

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #7

Jul 14 •

Nikolai Yakovenko: the $200 million AI engineer

The AI hype-cycle continues

Jul 12 •

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1:20:33

David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across Eurasia's antipodes

Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to David van Ofwegen, a philosophy teacher based in Thailand.

Jul 9 •

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David van Ofwegen

1:18:40

The wandering Fulani: children of the Green Sahara

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #6

Jul 3 •

June 2025

Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web

A heterodox editor reflects on the end of wokeness and what comes after

Jun 29 •

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1:35:24

Hiding in plain sight: uniting Denisovans’ famous DNA with a set of mysterious physical remains

The Denisovans were always right in front of us

Jun 28 •

Iran is not Iraq

Key demographic and historical data points for American observers (plus a quiz!)

Jun 26 •

Nathan Cofnas: Judaism's group evolutionary strategy and hereditarianism defended

A rogue philosopher talks about his heterodox views

Jun 20 •

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1:40:35

RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/16/2025

School’s out for summer edition

Jun 16 •

Brave new human: counting up the de novo mutations you alone carry

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #5

Jun 14 •

Steve Hsu: China's inevitable rise and America's confused response

Breaking down the America-China rivalry

Jun 13 •

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