Joe Klein and I discuss Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate and agree that Vance fared better. Joe talks about his experience covering the Middle East and what he thinks will happen there next. After the deluge in North Carolina, the question is whether climate change as an “issue” will be made “real” by the cost of insurance. The cost of home owner’s insurance is going through the roof. In the states most effected by Hurricane Helene, 1 % of the residents have flood insurance.
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On Wednesday of next week (10/9) we’ll be interviewing the amazing Rita Singh of Carnegie Mellon University:
Rita Singh works on core algorithmic aspects of computer voice recognition, and artificial intelligence applied to voice forensics. Her focus is on the development of technology for the automated discovery, measurement, representation, and learning of the information encoded in voice signal for optimal voice intelligence. Speech, a highly ordered manifestation of the human voice, is also shaped and influenced by the external environment. Understanding general audio, its interplay with human voice and its contextual significance, is a vital part of her research. The final goal of her work is to enable computing machines to not only recognize the content of human speech better in general, but also to understand and respond to humans by gauging their persona, their intent, and their staus vis-a-vis their environment from their voice alone, with an acuity that surpasses that of the human brain.
Two days later (10/11), we’ll be interviewing General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.):
General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) (New York) is a Partner at KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in May 2013. He is also a member of the boards of directors of Optiv and OneStream, a Strategic Advisor for Sempra and Advanced Navigation, a personal venture investor, an academic, and the co-author (with British historian Andrew Roberts) of the New York Times best selling book "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine."
Prior to joining KKR, General Petraeus served over 37 years in the U.S. military, culminating his career with six consecutive commands as a general officer, five of which were in combat, including command of the Surge in Iraq, command of U.S. Central Command, and command of coalition forces in Afghanistan. Following retirement from the military and after Senate confirmation by a vote of 94-0, he served as Director of the CIA during a period of significant achievements in the global war on terror, the establishment of important Agency digital initiatives, and substantial investments in the Agency’s most important asset, its human capital. General Petraeus graduated with distinction from the U.S. Military Academy and is the only person in Army history to be the top graduate of both the demanding U.S. Army Ranger School and the U.S. Army’s year-long Command and General Staff College. He also earned a Ph.D. in international relations and economics from Princeton University. General Petraeus taught both subjects at the U.S. Military Academy in the mid-1980s, he was a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Honors College of the City University of New York from 2013 through 2016, and he was for 6 years a Judge Widney Professor at the University of Southern California and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center.
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