FreakTakes

An Interview with Jano Costard, Head of Challenges at SPRIN-D

The Spotify version of today’s episode can be found at this link.

Jul 18 • 

Eric Gilliam

11

1

1:36:53

June 2025

Wanted: New Instruments to Fund BBNs

A guest post by Alex Obadia

Jun 20 • 

Eric Gilliam

 and 

Alex Obadia

16

5

An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur

The Spotify version of today’s episode can be found at this link.

Jun 12 • 

Eric Gilliam

18

1

1:57:46

An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur [Transcript]

The full transcript accompanying today’s interview, for those who just want to read the interview, not watch/listen to it

Jun 12 • 

Eric Gilliam

4

May 2025

My Appearance on the Foresight Institute Podcast

Where I discuss Bell Labs systems engineers, giving away $100 million like Warren Weaver, and more.

May 30 • 

Eric Gilliam

7

February 2025

A Category Theory-Inspired BBN

How the Topos Institute tackles problems in complex systems

Feb 28 • 

Eric Gilliam

18

2

January 2025

A New Chapter At FreakTakes

An applied research shop becomes a bit more applied

Jan 10 • 

Eric Gilliam

49

Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory

How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.

Published on Asimov Press • Jan 5

December 2024

A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA

Three variables that mark key regime changes in ARPA history

Dec 31, 2024 • 

Eric Gilliam

17

1

October 2024

A Scrappy Complement to FROs: Building More BBNs

ARPA's early decades of success have made the ARPA model iconic.

Oct 15, 2024 • 

Eric Gilliam

43

May 2024

Everything Old is New Again: Old research models for new-era semiconductor research

Alternative Title — How to optimally build at the top: the case for BBN-model orgs

May 28, 2024 • 

Eric Gilliam

19

1

March 2024

Managing Lockheed’s Skunk Works

And Many Stories About the Maleffects of Bureaucracy on R&D

Mar 7, 2024 • 

Eric Gilliam

49

3