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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
History of Science & Technology Q&A:
Live CEOing #874:
Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:
Physicists that "could code" used to be the hot commodity; is it helpful now? Seems like CS/ML people are more in demand than physicists now—why? ​​​​I find that building simple frameworks in software GREATLY helps understanding of the underlying material. Mathematics especially, but I don't think it's limited to hard sciences. I kind of doubt my trying to self-teach cryptanalysis is going to be very transferrable. Would you consider "science communicator" a career? What skills would be most important? How would you think about approaching school in the age of AI and LLMS? Should I, as a university student, embrace AI and LLMs? Or should I avoid them to eliminate risks of being too dependent on technology? I did specialized things for the government and just got laid off. There are no similar jobs in the public sector. How can/should I pivot? Is it better to stay at one job and "move up the ladder" over decades like our parents did or adopt this trend of staying at a company for no more than three years before salary-shopping elsewhere? ​​Do you see any solution to the "iron law of oligarchy" on the scale of generations? Interesting point; so how do we break the mold? I'm northeast England, a deprived region—any advice to get my children (15F, 20F) to realize their potential? What about economic barriers to "success" and fields where someone can be successful needing expensive education? What would you say to someone who could change the world but who lacks any resources or academic backing, so nobody wants to help? View Less »
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Live CEOing #873:
History of Science & Technology Q&A:
Can you talk about the history of pi?"Pi day of the century." Is pi still being researched today? Or is it a solidified concept? Was there always a connection between "pi" and "pie"? Can pi be used for data compression? Is the only reason pi shows up more than tau because we USE pi more often? If we used tau, it would have been 24/tau^2 instead of 6/pi^2, right? ​How was your experience with slide rules? Did Leibniz or Newton use tools like a slide rule? My 8th-grade (1983-ish) teacher didn't allow calculators, but he let me use my slide rule. ​​Would you rather be stuck with just a slide rule or just an abacus? What is your favorite "artifact from the past" that you own... any interesting stories? What's your favorite artifact from the future? Many key ideas in computer science existed before we had the hardware to implement them (Turing's computer, neural networks in the 1940s). What ideas today do you think are ahead of their time in the same way? Technology has progressed at an incredible rate during the last two centuries. That seems quite unusual relative to other periods in history. Are we bound to enter a new era of stagnation or regression? Or can we just keep going? How would you think about cellular automata if you were born in, say, ancient Greece/Rome or Egypt? Or even the 1800s? ​​Is there a history of people discovering the concept of the ruliad and thinking about it from a different perspective (mathematical, scientific, religious or otherwise)? I would be interested in hearing about the bug of Alan Turing. It seems like our definitions of "science" and "technology" have evolved over the years. Are they historically the same thing? View Less »
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Live CEOing #871:
Live CEOing #870:
Live CEOing Ep 870: Design Review of LLMGraph »

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