How to pronounce “nathan” in English

Nathan is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI and is the author of the amazing blog on AI called Interconnects.

Nathan, can you describe what DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 are, how they work, how they're trained?

Nathan, did you calculate this, or?

Nathan's brought up a completely new question.

Nathan's the founder and executive director of the nonprofit I'm From Driftwood, which you'll be hearing about today, which is an online archive of first person LGBTQ stories.

Nathan: My name is Nathan Fields.

Nathan: Right.

Nathan: Mm.

Nathan: Well.

Nathan: Uh, as for me, I was released on bond first.

Nathan: I call it-- Jeff: Come on over here.

Nathan: Yes.

Nathan: OK.

Nathan: Cool.

Nathan: OK, well thanks.

Nathan: So, we had two philosophies on that.

Nathan: And so, when we set out to do this, I told one of the people we were interviewing for art director, I said, "Look, I wanna show people a view of food that they've never seen

Nathan: Six hundred.

Nathan: Yeah, so about five years ago, I realized that there were all of these techniques out there, but there was no good place to learn it.

Nathan: Sure.

Nathan: Well, I put a thing on our blog asking, just soliciting, lots of input and say, "Hey, we're trying to decide how many to print."

Nathan: So, I like lots of different kinds of food.

Nathan: Right.

Nathan: OK.

Nathan: So we also had a thermometer in the oven, and what's called a wet-bulb thermometer.

Nathan: Sure.

Nathan: Sure, but the other thing is, you have to--.

Nathan: Yeah.

Nathan: So, I was interested in cooking my whole life.

Nathan: Well, but I'm pretty ambitious.

Nathan: Well, I had enough leverage.

Nathan: Yes, exactly.

Nathan: Oh yeah.

Nathan: You can get a centrifuge at-- Jeff: I'm still looking for one.

Nathan: laboratory supply places.

Nathan: including medical tests.

Nathan: Yup.

Nathan: Well, "wrong" is a tough thing.

Nathan: So, in the case of coffee, there's a whole coffee community which largely started

Nathan: Yup.

Nathan: So, I realized if I hadn't written software, I never would have written this

Nathan: Oh, we went off on so many tangents in this book it's ridiculous.

Nathan: Yup.

Nathan: OK.

Nathan: No, I think that pretty much covers it.

Nathan Turner on tuba.

Nathan started SparkFun -- how many years ago?

Nathan Seidle: Excellent. Yeah, so Nathan Seidle.

Nathan Seidle: A little runner, yeah, that was like bright red after Halloween.