- 04-29#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider99 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 03:51LHC and particle physics
- 13:55History of particle physics
- 38:59Higgs particle
- 57:55Unknowns yet to be discovered
- 59:48Beauty quarks
- 1:07:38Matter and antimatter
- 1:10:22Human side of the Large Hadron Collider
- 1:17:27Future of large particle colliders
- 1:24:09Data science with particle physics
- 1:27:17Science communication
- 1:33:36Most beautiful idea in physics
- 04-24#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence52 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 02:48Engineering at scale
- 08:36Increasing access to the economy
- 13:09Machine learning at Square
- 15:18Future of the digital economy
- 17:17Cryptocurrency
- 25:31Artificial intelligence
- 27:49Her
- 29:12Exchange with Elon Musk about bots
- 32:05Concerns about artificial intelligence
- 35:40Andrew Yang
- 40:57Eating one meal a day
- 45:49Mortality
- 47:50Meaning of life
- 48:59Simulation
- 04-22#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus130 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 02:33Viruses are terrifying and fascinating
- 06:02How hard is it to engineer a virus?
- 10:48What makes a virus contagious?
- 29:52Figuring out the function of a protein
- 53:27Functional regions of viral proteins
- 1:19:09Biology of a coronavirus treatment
- 1:34:46Is a virus alive?
- 1:37:05Epidemiological modeling
- 1:55:27Russia
- 2:02:31Science bobbleheads
- 2:06:31Meaning of life
- 04-18#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics192 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 04:16Communicating with an alien intelligence
- 12:11Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 29:06What is computation?
- 44:54Physics emerging from computation
- 1:14:10Simulation
- 1:19:23Fundamental theory of physics
- 1:28:01Richard Feynman
- 1:39:57Role of ego in science
- 1:47:21Cellular automata
- 2:15:08Wolfram language
- 2:55:14What is intelligence?
- 2:57:47Consciousness
- 3:02:36Mortality
- 3:05:47Meaning of life
- 04-13#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions167 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 02:08World War II and the Coronavirus Pandemic
- 14:03New leaders
- 31:18Hope for our time
- 34:23WHO
- 44:19Geometric unity
- 1:38:55We need to get off this planet
- 1:40:47Elon Musk
- 1:46:58Take Back MIT
- 2:15:31The time at Harvard
- 2:37:01The Portal
- 2:42:58Legacy
- 04-09#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes68 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 02:31Intelligent life in the universe
- 05:03Engineering intelligence (are there shortcuts?)
- 07:06Is the evolutionary process efficient?
- 10:39Human brain and AGI
- 15:31Memes
- 26:37Does society need religion?
- 33:10Conspiracy theories
- 39:10Where do morals come from in humans?
- 46:10AI began with the ancient wish to forge the gods
- 49:18Simulation
- 56:58Books that influenced you
- 1:02:53Meaning of life
- 04-03#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning108 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 04:09First program
- 11:11AlphaGo
- 21:42Rule of the game of Go
- 25:37Reinforcement learning: personal journey
- 30:15What is reinforcement learning?
- 43:51AlphaGo (continued)
- 53:40Supervised learning and self play in AlphaGo
- 1:06:12Lee Sedol retirement from Go play
- 1:08:57Garry Kasparov
- 1:14:10Alpha Zero and self play
- 1:31:29Creativity in AlphaZero
- 1:35:21AlphaZero applications
- 1:37:59Reward functions
- 1:40:51Meaning of life