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David Magerman

David Magerman

Computer scientist and philanthropist

Aug 12, 2026

3:02
So much is changing in this world every day, that it's literally hard to compute.
3:12
The scale of the bubble, the financial bubble, I would say that the bubble that exists today is probably a factor of 10 to 50 of what the internet bubble was.
3:22
But the problem is it's, it's, it's monopoly money.
3:24
It's these, like, 10 companies giving each other billions of dollars.
3:28
When you buy, uh, $10 billion worth of, of, uh, computers from NVIDIA, and you invest in NVIDIA, you're basically just paying yourself for equipment, and so you can overpay yourself, and it all kind of cancels out.
3:42
If it's costing the company that's doing the inferencing $10-

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13:13
They're not going to go away.
13:16
The driving force here is data.
39:00
But what needs to take place communally on a higher level, not just Sydney's journey, but what are you thinking about? What are the improvements that are necessary right now that you are looking at in order to revolutionize the Aliyah experience and decision?
39:16
So it's funny that what I've seen through this process with Sidney is that so many of the things that I did in a vacuum for the Jewish people, for Jewish community, have benefited Sidney accidentally.
39:26
I didn't move JLIC to universities in Israel for Sydney, but she has been benefiting before, during, and after her enrollment in the school by having the JLIC couples that exist on Bar-Ilan's campus.
39:40
I didn't create the hybrid Hebrew immersion program at the universities for Sydney.
39:45
I had no idea that she was going to end up enrolling in it.
39:48
There are things that we've been doing as a foundation because they need to be done and they are in place and developed already so Sydney could benefit from them.
39:56
And when she talked about the idea of a hub, we have been building a platform called The Future is Calling that is designed to be like the Masa for universities, where it'll be like a clearinghouse for information about all the universities in Israel.
44:06
How do you address the fact that part of the reason why people are concerned to make Aliyah is actually religious?

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