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Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (February 1, 2023) »
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Congratulations on the recent blog post! Can you talk about the process of writing a blog post like this? Why did you decide to do a three-part series?
Congratulations! Refreshing. Great timing, as thermodynamics is now used in generative AI models, i.e. nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
What are your thoughts on salaries and compensation, especially for virtual/remote companies that employ people from different locations?
I really like the way you define different writing styles for different projects. What led you to do that? How do you define the limits of an article or book and go through the writing process?
I find that when I write something up and I have to back up all my assertions, I reveal what I should've been investigating in the first place.
How should one go about learning how to split equity when founding a company? How do you know if you are giving too much or too little?
You said you can understand French. Are there any other languages you're familiar with? Are there other languages you would like to learn or wish you would've learned?
Do you recommend exposing children to a second language? Is it harder to learn another language as you get older?
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 118] »
1 hour 14 minutes
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Do you think it's possible to sustain life on Mars? How far into the future do you see this happening?
Maybe biological switches would change everything for a biological machine.
Could you explain the fundamental principles of biology?
Aren't neurons the biological analog of switches?
Can machine learning help solve inverse scattering problems where the forward scattering problem is highly nonlinear?
How do x-rays work to see only the bones and ignore skin?
I think bone opacity also comes down to water contents (there is just more water in tissue).
Can those x-rays be used for automatic detection of changes within the molecule structure of crystallized solids as well?
Do you think ecology will play an important role in understanding molecular computation?
Ecology is a complex system. Physics is easy: just analyze a single particle's or body's motion. Ecology has vast interconnections and mechanisms. View Less »
History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (January 25, 2023) »
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Historically, what are some of the most prominent developments in the twentieth-century history of software design?
I watched the recent NASA rocket launch and wondered what's new in the past 60 years.
Why did American English develop common words for every third order of magnitude (million, billion, trillion)? Other languages seem to have different common words, like lakh in Hindi for 100,000.
I remember a comment from an old programmer saying the first time they saw a screen used with a computer was in the movie 2001.
Why is ChatGPT blowing up now when GPT-3 was known in 2020 and GPT-2 in 2019?
How much do you think real science and technology are shaped by the ideas from science fiction?
The thing about ChatGPT is that it uses the same architecture as GPT-3 with the same number of parameters. The fact that a fine tuning can create such a leap in capability suggests that we are in a hardware overhang.
Has there been any technology in history that's been perfected (e.g. the wheel), or is there always room for improvement?
Printers. Paper jammed 30 years ago, paper jams today.
Let's not ask the AI to design a new type of paperclip.
Paper jams happen today, but paper itself has become irrelevant. Such is the case with technology. Old technology doesn't get better, it gets replaced.
When and why was dark energy hypothesized?
Once we get 3D nano-replicators, we won't need roads; we can just teleport from place to place.
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 117] »
1 hour 39 minutes
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Can you talk a bit about Pangaea? How do continents shift? Is it possible to reform Pangaea? Is there technology that could prevent this?
How does ChatGPT work?
Could you say that Chat GPT has made a graph of the space of words or ideas?
I'd love to see a thesaurus based on vectors into semantic space, so you could ask it to give you a word with a meaning close to "A" but heading in the direction of "B."
How well does ChatGPT handle slang or figures of speech? Does it understand text as literal, or is it capable of picking up these notes?
Could it be that ChatGPT isn't accurate because its training data is text, which may or may not correspond to the real world? Shouldn't we use only real-world data, such as sensory information of sight, sound, touch, taste, smell?
With all the new "AI" tools rolling out, what do you think will be the effect on "truth" and "facts" as we know them?
Does ChatGPT's ability to mimic emotions means that it is able to feel anything, and how much consciousness does it have?
Do you believe physics boundaries need to be coded explicitly, or do you think enough data will result in the model learning principles?
How does a neural network experience time? How do all these threads of computation combine to form a whole from its parts? View Less »
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Live CEOing Ep 675: Language Design Review of Foreign Function Interface Functionality »
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