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Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
Season 1 Episode 35
Sadia, in her four episodes on unsolved problems in physics (first episode here), was clearly heavily inspired by the work of Julian Barbour. So we invited Julian to join us for an episode and got a …
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 34: Alpha Go and Creativity
Season 1 Episode 34
When Alpha Go beat Lee Sedol, the world Go champion, it came up with creative new moves never previously seen before and even invented a whole new style of play unknown to humans. IBM's Deep Blue, th…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 33: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 4 - Possible Solutions and Criticisms
Season 1 Episode 33
We wrap up our discussion with Sadia Naeem covering possible solutions and criticisms of those solutions.
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 32: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 3 - Symmetry and Novelty
Season 1 Episode 32
Sadia Naeem continues the discussion about unsolved problems in physics. This time we talk about (among many other things) symmetry and novelty.
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 31: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 2 - Clocks, Blocks, and Eternalism
Season 1 Episode 31
Sadia Naeem joins us again, this time to explain clocks, block universes, and eternalism.
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 30: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 1 - The Mystery of Time
Season 1 Episode 30
Sadia Naeem joins us to discuss her own research and musings into the problems and mystery presented by time.
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
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Episode 29: The Marvel[ous] TV Shows
Season 1 Episode 29
In this episode Cameo, Tracy, and Bruce geek out over how good the Marvel TV shows are and how much they really get right. Spoilers abound, so be warned.
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 28: Reinforcement Learning and Q-Learning
Season 1 Episode 28
Reinforcement Learning is a machine learning algorithm that is a 'general purpose learner' (with certain important caveats). It generated a lot of excitement with its stunning victory of Alpha Go aga…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 27: Chiara Marletto and Constructor Theory
Season 1 Episode 27
In this episode, we interview Chiara Marletto about her recent book The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals as well as discussing Constructor Theory in…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 26: Is Universal Darwinism the Sole Source of Knowledge Creation?
Season 1 Episode 26
Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In this episode, we're going to test t…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago