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Lex Fridman
For over five decades, Moore's Law has served as an inspiring benchmark for engineers, originally defined by Gordon Moore's observation that transistor counts double every two years. Jim Keller argues against the prevailing notion that this law is dead, explaining that while the specific cadence of …
Lex Fridman
Scott Aaronson explains that the term "quantum supremacy," coined in 2012, refers to a specific historical milestone where a quantum computer performs a well-defined task significantly faster than any known classical algorithm. It is crucial to understand that this does not imply solving useful prob …
Lex Fridman
Richard Karp, a distinguished professor at Berkeley and a pivotal figure in theoretical computer science, reflects on his journey from being mesmerized by Euclidean geometry proofs to developing foundational algorithms like the ADM algorithm for maximum flow problems. His 1978 paper demonstrating th …
Lex Fridman
In this episode, Scott Aaronson explores whether our universe might be a simulation and what it would mean for reality to be computable. He notes that while we cannot currently distinguish a perfect simulation from physical reality without finding an exploit or "bug," the laws of physics seem robust …