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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

Posted April 18, 2020 • 03:11:36

Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist who is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, a company behind Mathematica,...

#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions

Posted April 13, 2020 • 02:47:04

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician with a bold and piercing intelligence, unafraid to explore the biggest questions in the universe and shine a light...

#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

Posted April 9, 2020 • 01:07:48

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The Greatest...

#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

Posted April 3, 2020 • 01:48:28

David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and...

#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

Posted March 31, 2020 • 01:28:25

Roger Penrose is physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at University of Oxford. He has made fundamental contributions in many disciplines from the...