Variance Show Notes

EPISODES

1 | Architecture for Housing Crises, Wildfires, and Electric Cars (Dan Spiegel of SAW Architects) – 25 May 2025

Why does it cost so much to build housing?  How can we build to live in a world of climate change and wildfires?  How will electric cars and charging stations change gas station architecture?

Join Dan Spiegel of SAW Architects as he lays out his solutions to these problems.

2 | AI Reliability and Humans Testing Language Models (Anastasios Angelopolous of LM Arena)

Anastasios’s Personal Website
Conformal Prediction (Science of AI reliability)
LM Arena (Humans testing LLMs)
DeepSeek and DeepSeek R1