Pavle Jeremic is the founder and CEO of Aether Biomachines, one of the most exciting ML-powered startups I've come across. His mission is to solve scarcity and Aether is the first step towards that. He was recently featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 in Manufacturing and holds a B.S. in Biomolecular Engineering from UC Santa Cruz. Learn more: Aether Biomachines

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Timestamps: 02:45 Pavle Jeremic 05:20 How Pavle was introduced to computer science and programming 08:00 Solving scarcity from first principles 23:20 How Aether contributes to the post-scarcity future 29:30 What enzymatic reaction data looks like 37:20 Using deep learning to figure out what enzymatic experiments to run next 39:45 How Aether runs thousands of experiments at a time 47:00 What the current bottleneck of the system is 53:15 The evolution of ML models at Aether 59:00 Gaps in existing ML infrastructure solutions 01:03:30 Why Aether is releasing some of their data for a competition 01:06:50 The upcoming roadmap for Aether 01:09:30 Rapid fire questions

Links: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4-making-alchemy-real-pavle-jeremic-aether-biomachines/id1498805236?i=1000465399648 (Founders First Interview - Making Alchemy Real) https://deepchem.io/ (DeepChem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engines_of_Creation (Engines of Creation) https://www.goodreads.com/series/49121-rama (Rama Series)