Delta(Δ) X Podcast
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingdelta(Δ) x: a change in x
conversations with change-makers, innovators, and self-starters who have made their mark on the world at a young age. breaking down the journeys of those who are changing the status quo and building the future, today. learn things you aren't taught in school, from Δtech to Δstartups to Δinvesting and beyond.
the future is in our hands. let's change the world together. Δx
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Fireside Chat #2 | A Message From The Class Of 2022 | Conversation With Aaryan Shah, Kyler Wang, And Sneha Revanur | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
June 10, 2022 00:39 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBThree graduating high school seniors (who have each received full-rides to college) reveal their regrets, lessons learned, and defining moments that made their last 4 years memorable. Have you ever wondered how differently things would be looking back? Aaryan, Kyler, and Sneha have recently graduated high school and are heading off to their respective colleges next fall on full-ride scholarships. They are the founders of Unitopia, Spark Teen, and Encode Justice, respectively -- all having g...
Fireside Chat #1 | High School Hackers And The Open Source Movement | A Conversation With Aiden Bai, Ishan Goel, And Pranav Teegavarapu | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
May 20, 2022 15:00 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MBJoin us around the campfire: talking with teens who have coded some incredible (and popular!) open-source projects, with hundreds or thousands of stars on Github ⭐ Aiden, Ishan, and Pranav are 3 amazing high schoolers programmers and hackers who built Million, Devzat, and Kobra, respectively. Each has a unique story about how they got started and their journey — but they all share a common theme of hacking, building, and having fun in the process. Listen in to hear stories about using ifra...
Building In Public And The Future Of Web3 | A Conversation With Aryan Sharma | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
April 15, 2022 16:57 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBAryan Sharma (@aryxnsharma) on leveraging Web3, building in public, and a page from the book of game theory—the signal behind the layers of complexity and hype. Aryan Sharma is a 17-year-old builder and hacker in Web3. He’s also previously built two small startups in the education and hyper-local jobs space, and posts his thoughts on Twitter to over 10K followers. “Many people have been thinking about Web3 as an isolated market... but the behavior has been existing for years. That’s a fund...
Effective Altruism And A Framework To Solve Pressing Problems | A Conversation With Ziyaan Virji | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
March 30, 2022 19:10 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB3 years. $3-8. 100% biodegradable. Ziyaan created For the Menstruator from a school project, following a transformative life experience as a teenager in Kenya. They’ve changed lives for 13,500+ girls. “Over 500 million menstruators don’t have access, in Kenya 65%, in Africa an average of 1 in 10 girls don’t have access. These numbers are huge and no one is talking about this.” After a near-death experience when he was 15, Ziyaan had a wake up call. When he saw a documentary about menstruat...
Autodidactism, Engineering Luck, And Unique Life Experiences | A Conversation With Okezue Bell | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
February 16, 2022 17:19 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBOkezue Bell is a 16-year-old developing biocompatible human and brain-computer interfaces. His first research experience was culturing materials at home; since then, he has jump started his research to work on neuromedical engineering at Harvard MS/Mass Gen Hospital, machine learning at Microsoft and MIT Media Lab, and computational genetics and genomics at Stanford School of Medicine. The key was learning how to engineer opportunities and open doors for unique life experiences. “Engineeri...
Minecraft For Science: Building A Metaverse For K12 Science Education | A Conversation With Aditya Vishwanath | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
January 28, 2022 22:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBIf only learning science was like playing Minecraft or being inside The Magic School Bus… 🤔 This may soon be a reality — rethinking education from first-principles using VR and the metaverse. Aditya Vishwanath is the founder and CEO of Inspirit, an immersive virtual reality education company. He is also currently pursuing a PhD at the Stanford Graduate School of Education as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. “I think the metaverse is an opportunity to rethink from first principles how we can buil...
Teaching 60k Students To Unlock Their Creativity Using Coding | A Conversation With Tyler Menezes | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
November 30, 2021 23:11 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB“There’s a place in tech for everyone.” Tyler Menezes, Executive Director of CodeDay, is changing the narrative of CS education -- simply by getting students excited to learn and create. Tyler describes his spark with building cool things using tech after stumbling across a programming book for slot machines. Since then, Tyler has been helping thousands of other students find that moment -- “seeing your ideas come to life”. After dropping out of university to found a tech startup in Silico...
Youngest Research Assistant At India’s Department Of Defense To Founding A Medtech Startup | A Conversation With Nikin Tharan | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
November 05, 2021 18:11 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBNikin discovered his love for electronics at 9, and became the youngest research assistant at India’s DoD. He discusses his journey in accelerated learning pathways and founding a medtech startup. “Don’t ever be afraid to ask for help or to ask for opportunities. Very few opportunities land in your lap… you have to hustle and create the opportunity.” From piloting projects on anti-train collision and smart homes starting from when he was 9 to attending Northeastern on a full ride scholarsh...
A Mirror On Society: Debiasing Artificial Intelligence (AI) And The Importance Of AI Ethics | A Conversation with Catherine Yeo | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
October 22, 2021 20:16 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBHarvard CS and English undergraduate student, Catherine Yeo, talks about her journey founding an AI ethics organization with tens of thousands of article views and discovering her interests through her love of writing. Besides founding her organization Fair Bytes, Catherine is also lead venture partner at Contrary Capital and has previously worked at Disney’s StudioLab, Dover, IBM Research, and Apple in AI research and software engineering roles. “I want to help others really look at AI fr...
Welcome To The Metaverse: Virtual Reality For Immersive Education | A Conversation With Nicolas Barone | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
October 06, 2021 06:39 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBNicolas is creating the next reality for online learning using VR - the intersection of accessible education and movement towards the metaverse. After realizing the difficulties and lack of immersiveness of online learning, Nicolas took a gap year from his studies at Cornell as an Applied Mathematics major to found a VR company, combining technology with his passion for educational accessibility. They have now taught over 10,000 students and are currently the 3rd largest VR events producer....
AI Or Human? Exploring GPT-3 Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, And Creativity | A Conversation With Andrew Lohn And Micah Musser | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
September 22, 2021 19:19 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this special Black Hat episode, Andrew Lohn and Micah Musser explain “Disinformation At Scale: Using GPT-3 Maliciously for Information Operations” - the double-edged sword of large language models. The Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, or GPT-3, is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text, created by OpenAI. In other words: “Autocomplete on steroids.” It is currently the largest and most powerful natural language model in the world, and can ...
Don’t Trust Everything You See: Deepfake Social Engineering And Cognitive Psychology | A Conversation With Dr. Matthew Canham | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
September 08, 2021 17:15 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBWhat are the dangers of deep fakes? How is it related to cyber and cognitive psychology? Dr. Canham explains Deepfake Social Engineering: Creating a Framework for Synthetic Media Social Engineering. Deepfakes (a combination of “deep learning” and “fake”) leverages Artificial Intelligence to repurpose existing media to appear to be someone else. It’s the technology responsible for numerous applications in animation, entertainment, and... meme videos of Tom Cruise. But deep fakes have also be...
High School Mathematics Research To Harvard Business School Associate Professor & Conundrums Author | A Conversation With Scott Kominers | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu
August 27, 2021 17:11 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBScott Kominers is the Associate Professor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. His love for math started with a research project on quadratic form representation theory. “It’s like it’s always been there; you just didn’t know how to express it.” Through his high school research project, Kominers got into the world of mathematics, which later led him to discover his deep interest in economics. Now, he teaches courses on market design to studen...
Spinal Reconstructions, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, And… Just Dance? Winning The International Science And Engineering Fair | A Conversation With Krithik Ramesh | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu
August 12, 2021 17:04 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBInspiration for a project can come from anywhere. For Krithik, a game of Just Dance and love for Grey’s Anatomy emerged into a project which won the top award at ISEF 2019 out of millions worldwide. In this episode, Krithik shares his research on developing a live-time navigation system for spinal reconstruction surgery using AR and ML, the future of AI and mitigating algorithmic bias, and advice for high schoolers in conducting research and science fairs. _______________________ Guest Kr...
Signals From The Villages | DEF CON 29 — Cryptocurrency And Cybersecurity | A Conversation With Justin Ehrenhofer And Michael Schloh Von Bennewitz | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
July 28, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThe Cryptocurrency Village at DEF CON 29 will explore blockchain technologies, the regulatory landscape, and the general cryptocurrency ecosystem — the intersection of cryptocurrency and cybersecurity. In this episode, I connect with two organizers of the Cryptocurrency Village for a preview of what’s to come at DEF CON 29 and the crypto landscape. We discuss security and privacy, the biggest problems faced by crypto today, and future potential for innovation. _______________________ Gues...
A 6-Figure Acquisition At Age 16: Building And Exiting Two EdTech Startups As A High School Student | A Conversation With Calix Huang | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
July 14, 2021 16:54 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB16-year-old startup engineer, Calix Huang, has sold 2 EdTech companies, scaled to 20k users in 6 months, and underwent a 6-figure acquisition. Here’s his story on how he did it. From self-learning Python and web development online to getting his first software engineering internship at 14, Calix talks about his approach for rapidly learning new skills and how going out of your comfort zone can be a faster, and more fun, way of building new things. Learning is not a linear journey - you’ll h...
To Meet Interesting People, You Have To Work On Interesting Things: Building The Largest Community Of 13k+ Teenage Hackers And Coders | A Conversation With Zach Latta | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
July 01, 2021 16:51 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWhat do Elon Musk, dinosaur-shaped Arduinos, and the largest network of HS coders have in common? Zach Latta brings us through his journey dropping out and moving to SF at 16 to founding Hack Club. “To Meet Interesting People, You Have to Work on Interesting Things.” At age 7, Zach took apart his parents computer, then created top chart games and apps used by 5 million people at 16 after moving away alone to SF. In doing the unconventional, Zach set himself on a path to doing interesting t...
How Chaos Engineering Ensures Seamless Delivery For Over 200 Million Netflix Subscribers | A Conversation With Amy Smidutz | DeltaX Podcast With Ellen Xu
June 18, 2021 07:15 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBEngineering, automation, and… chaos monkeys? 🤔🙊Amy Smidutz, Director of Delivery Engineering at Netflix, explains how breaking things during production helps increase resilience to failure. In this episode, you’ll learn how large companies like Netflix deliver content seamlessly to hundreds of millions of subscribers. Spoiler alert: it’s not what you might expect. Counterintuitively, chaos experimentation and breaking things during production can actually help reduce fail-overs for millio...
Building Resilience — From Earth To The Depths Of Outer Space | A Conversation With Manuel Retana | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu
May 28, 2021 07:10 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBThis is a journey into the infinite possibilities of human ingenuity and space exploration. The future of human and robotics collaboration. Guest Manuel Retana On Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-retana/ Host Ellen Xu On ITSPmagazine 👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ellen-xu This Episode’s Sponsors Key Resources Security 👉 https://itspm.ag/keyresources-2876 Reversing Labs 👉 https://itspm.ag/reversinglabs-v57b Listen to all of our conversation...
Building the Most Popular COVID-19 Tracking Site at 16 Years Old | A Conversation with Avi Schiffmann | DeltaX Podcast with Ellen Xu
May 16, 2021 07:06 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBAt 16 years old, Avi Schiffmann built the very first and most popular website for COVID-19 with 30 million daily visitors at its peak. Listen along to his incredible backstory and what's coming next. Avi created nCoV2019.live when the first signs of COVID-19 hit - little did he know it would quickly become one of the most popular COVID-19 tracking sites with 30 million+ daily visitors at its peak, and help inform the public and epidemiologists in monitoring and curbing the spread of the pan...
13-Year-Old Investor And Youtuber On Stock Market Investing | A Conversation With Zach Cox "Young Investor" | Delta X Podcast With Ellen Xu
May 03, 2021 18:43 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MB$40. 12 years old. Self-taught from the Internet. That’s how Zach Cox got his start in investing. Since then, he has made high gains on his portfolio- and in this episode, you’ll learn how you can too. Investing is often seen as inaccessible, too difficult, and requiring high amounts of prior knowledge. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Zach is changing the landscape of investing by showing that anyone can get started and learn about investment - regardless of age or background. From stum...