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#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, theor…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful communicators of science in our time. She co-wrote the 1980 science documentary series Cosmos hosted by Carl …
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human self-destruction in the movie Annihilation to the deep questions of conscious…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, he saw the messy world of biology through the pier…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, including with Jürgen Schmidhuber and Shane Legg, he has p…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
Michael I. Jordan is a professor at Berkeley, and one of the most influential people in the history of machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence. He has been cited over 170,000 times …
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He co-founded Coursera and Google Brain, launched de…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum …
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence
Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning. He was born in the Soviet Union, worked at th…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He’s known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processor…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago