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Can Large Language Models Understand ‘Meaning’?
Brown University computer scientist Ellie Pavlick is translating philosophical concepts such as “understanding” and “meaning” into concrete ideas that are testable on LLMs.
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What Makes for ‘Good’ Math? | Podcast: Joy of Why
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Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the common ingredients in “good” mathematical research. In this episode, the Fields Medalist joins Steven Strogatz to revisit the topic. S3EP01 Originally Published February 1, 2024 - Find more information about this episode here: www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-for-good-mathematics-20240201/ “The Joy o...
How to Predict Eclipses: The Three-Body Problem
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Nearly 3,000 years ago, ancient Babylonians began one of the longest-running science experiments in history. The goal: to predict eclipses. This singular aim has driven innovation across the history of science and mathematics, from the Saros cycle to Greek geometry to Newton’s calculus to the three-body problem. Today, eclipse prediction is a precise science; NASA scientists predict eclipses hu...
The mathematical 'worlds' of cryptography: Which universe do we live In?
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For forty years, Russell Impagliazzo has worked at the forefront of computational complexity theory, the study of the intrinsic difficulty of different problems. The most famous open question in this field, called the P versus NP problem, asks whether many seemingly hard computational problems are actually easy, with the right algorithm. An answer would have far-reaching implications for scienc...
Why Is This Basic Computer Science Problem So Hard?
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How can a programmer ensure a critical piece of software is bug-free? Theoretical computer scientists use a fundamental question called the reachability problem, which determines whether a computer will reach or avoid various dangerous states when running a program. To better understand the complexity of the problem, researchers turned to a mathematical tool called vector addition systems. In a...
The Physicist Who 'Sees' Into Black Holes
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How do supermassive black holes shape the evolution of galaxies? What does an event horizon really look like? Why do black holes emit bursts of energy called ‘relativistic jets’? In search of answers to these questions, astrophysicist Erin Kara explores black holes by carefully tracking the gas and plasma swirling near their event horizons. To reconstruct the immediate environment, Kara turns t...
The Mandelbrot Set: Inside Math's Famous Fractal
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The Mandelbrot set is a special shape, with a fractal outline. Use a computer to zoom in on the set’s jagged boundary and no matter how deep you explore, you’ll always see near-copies of the original set - an infinite, dizzying cascade of self-similarity and novel features. The Mandelbrot set is a perfect example of how a simple mathematical rule can produce incredible complexity. This video co...
The Math Hiding in Plain Sight
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Group theorist Sarah Hart explores connections between math, nature and the arts including architecture, music, design and literature. Wherever she looks, Hart discovers hidden patterns and symmetries which appeal to our innate appreciation of order and beauty in the universe. Hart is the professor of geometry at Gresham College in London, where she delivers several public lectures per year. Re...
2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
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Quanta Magazine’s mathematics coverage in 2023 included landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of mathematical delight and discovery. Read about more math breakthroughs from this year at Quanta Magazine: www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-discoveries-in-math-in-2023-20231222/ 00:05 Ramsey Numbers One of the biggest mathematical discoveries of the ...
2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
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2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Computer Science
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2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Computer Science
2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology and Neuroscience
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2023's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology and Neuroscience
P vs. NP: The Biggest Puzzle in Computer Science
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P vs. NP: The Biggest Puzzle in Computer Science
Why Computer Vision Is a Hard Problem for AI
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Why Computer Vision Is a Hard Problem for AI
Unlocking the Secrets of Our Circadian Rhythms
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Unlocking the Secrets of Our Circadian Rhythms
How To Explore The Early Universe
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How To Explore The Early Universe
When Computers Write Proofs, What's the Point of Mathematicians?
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When Computers Write Proofs, What's the Point of Mathematicians?
Solving Math's Map Coloring Problem Using Graph Theory
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Solving Math's Map Coloring Problem Using Graph Theory
Improving Cryptography to Protect the Internet
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Improving Cryptography to Protect the Internet
A Bet Against Quantum Gravity
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A Bet Against Quantum Gravity
Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?
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Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?
The Digital Quest for Quantum Gravity
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The Digital Quest for Quantum Gravity
How AI Discovered a Faster Matrix Multiplication Algorithm
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How AI Discovered a Faster Matrix Multiplication Algorithm
Hunting For Signs of Life at the Top of the World
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Hunting For Signs of Life at the Top of the World
Battling Big Tech: Truth, Lies and AI
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Battling Big Tech: Truth, Lies and AI
Could One Physics Theory Unlock the Mysteries of the Brain?
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Could One Physics Theory Unlock the Mysteries of the Brain?
2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
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2022's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math
How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole in a Quantum Computer
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How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole in a Quantum Computer
The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem
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The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem
One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty
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One Man's Mission to Unveil Math's Beauty

Komentáře

  • @theeverythingchannel9786
    @theeverythingchannel9786 Před 5 hodinami

    What about Anti- Particles?

  • @diniodo5898
    @diniodo5898 Před 5 hodinami

    P=NP

  • @VersedYT
    @VersedYT Před 8 hodinami

    Beautiful, succinct explanation. This video should be shown to people of all backgrounds.

  • @anywallsocket
    @anywallsocket Před 9 hodinami

    I respect this idea, however, the paper does not mention the word "entanglement" once, and therefore I suspect it is not evolving in the right direction.

  • @stokedfool
    @stokedfool Před 13 hodinami

    Formal Verification

  • @user-zq7xz5fu6w
    @user-zq7xz5fu6w Před 21 hodinou

    Nerds

  • @vandie9759
    @vandie9759 Před dnem

    re invent gasoline so a car gets 400mpg

  • @deleted-something
    @deleted-something Před dnem

    This is a problem more people should know about

  • @colbyr7811
    @colbyr7811 Před dnem

    "this is one of the most important sounds in the universe" ... *Proceeds to talk over it*

    • @colbyr7811
      @colbyr7811 Před dnem

      *Holy shit you can make font bold by putting it in asterisks??*

  • @dariuskarneckij6377

    The brain is a large language model, so, yes. It'll be very interesting though to know at what point is an AI self aware, or just giving the illusion of self awareness.

  • @bwshklsbcbr
    @bwshklsbcbr Před dnem

    Hii, Could you tell me what tools you use to edit your videos ? Because they're really beautiful ❤️

  • @fun-damentals6354
    @fun-damentals6354 Před dnem

    mathematics is the most beautiful and infinitely interesting thing that exists

  • @deemgaiwhy
    @deemgaiwhy Před dnem

    I literally dont fucking care

  • @kenhoffman5363
    @kenhoffman5363 Před dnem

    What was found is gravitational radiation, not gravitational waves. Matter particles combined in a mass yields a neutral electromagnetic field as a Gravitational Mass. When that Gravitational Mass accelerates, it generates gravitational radiation. That is not the gravitational waves associated with the force of Gravity. Gravity is not restricted to light speed.

  • @CTcuber4K
    @CTcuber4K Před 2 dny

    Why the AI generated thumbnail image

  • @AbhinavLal85
    @AbhinavLal85 Před 2 dny

    I learnt recently, that to enjoy life, you must stop asking why. Or in other words, stop asking why, and enjoy life. And here Quanta has a podcast called the "Joy of Why"? wewewew.

  • @bachnguyen836
    @bachnguyen836 Před 2 dny

    Imagine a mother does not have to carry an unborn child for as long as ~9 months anymore.

  • @tuk7raz
    @tuk7raz Před 3 dny

    ❤ При регистрации гравитационных волн LIGO, полезный сигнал 0,2% на шум приходится 99,8%. По другому можно сказать. - Если случайно совпадают шумы (мусор), на двух или трёх детекторах, то выдадут это за гравитационные волны, согласно подготовленных заранее шаблонов. На “ГИБРИД оптическом гироскопе" при регистрации, квантов гравитации оптом. Возможно полезные сигнал получим 74% и на шумы 26%. - Вам выбирать рулетку - что измеряет Вселенную и из чего, главное она состоит. В автобусе, в самолёте выполним опыт Майкельсона-Морли и определяя им прямолинейную скорость. - О таком опыте мечтал ещё Эйнштейн. Но мы, возможно будем наблюдать постулаты "Свет это упорядоченная вибрация гравитационных квантов. Доминантные гравитационные поля управляют скоростью света в вакууме". Есть предложение на совместное изобретения ГИБРИД гироскопа из некруглых, ДВУХ катушек с новым типом оптического волокна с «полой сердцевиной из фотоно-замещенной вакуумной зоной», где - свет в каждом плече проходит по 16000 метров при этом, не превышает параметры 0,4/0,4/0,4 метра и вес - 4кг.

  • @user-xj7zy5to3h
    @user-xj7zy5to3h Před 3 dny

    The most amazing thing is, it all has to be done! Gteat.

  • @YingLui305
    @YingLui305 Před 3 dny

    He should be awarded a Phd for his work

  • @kmo9790
    @kmo9790 Před 3 dny

    Why is there no mention of the Trig proofs for the Pythagorean Theorem? Two thousand years and two highschoolers came up with two separate proofs. Seems like a big deal. Wonder why there is no video on them at all in any context on this channel?

  • @andrewferg8737
    @andrewferg8737 Před 3 dny

    "hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure" (Isaiah 5) Per the physical analog of the interior volume of a black hole which appears to forever expand without limit.

  • @En_theo
    @En_theo Před 3 dny

    Not intelligent but incredibly beautiful. Some women have all nature on their side :)

  • @panzerfaust480
    @panzerfaust480 Před 3 dny

    Yea, a lot of people are going to be obsolete. But the repair jobs are always gonna be there.

  • @gm2407
    @gm2407 Před 4 dny

    Hat tyle is 13 sided. Not surprised it is a prime number.

  • @GordonBrevity
    @GordonBrevity Před 4 dny

    He seems pretty grounded. Only a short video to go on, but there's neither arrogance nor false modesty. Anyway: bravo, Daniel!

  • @BojanPeric-kq9et
    @BojanPeric-kq9et Před 5 dny

    Fun fact: TLA kind a sucks compared to 30 years old SMV. Can you guess why?

  • @Sharperthanu1
    @Sharperthanu1 Před 5 dny

    You shouldn't confuse "primordial soup" with Quantum Soup

  • @pikiwiki
    @pikiwiki Před 5 dny

    What a video

  • @einsteindrieu
    @einsteindrieu Před 5 dny

    ❤❤👽👽🛸🛸❤❤

  • @ekekonoise
    @ekekonoise Před 5 dny

    Is there any book where this topic is more comprehensively treated?

  • @chesterlai9444
    @chesterlai9444 Před 5 dny

    Notice he is asian

  • @ramusoder5411
    @ramusoder5411 Před 6 dny

    A particle can be two different things at the same time and in the same exact space, just like Schrödinger's wave superposition and Born's particle superposition. Two completely different meanings attached to the same math.

  • @to2burger
    @to2burger Před 6 dny

    Is this “quantum energy” what Nikola Tesla theorized existed all throughout empty space? Edit: Also, for these initial experiments/in general in order to send information through entangled atoms do they both need to be the same material? Could a carbon atom transmit the information to say a gold atom? Also how can we predict/tell what pockets of zero point energy will be entangled together? Meaning, is one carbon atom uniquely linked to another specific carbon atom (think their QR codes match) OR is it that ANY carbon atom is forever entangled with every other carbon atom that exists? Also, my last question is (and this seems like the biggest bottleneck to me) how do we, humans, organize our understanding of this to intentionally decide the destinations of this information we beam into these entangled particles? Also, is it possible that our radio waves give off some resonant energy frequencies that tickle the zero point energy particles and might be, unbeknownst to us, transmitting some kind of quantum data elsewhere in the universe or perhaps even beyond our (3D) dimension? Is what we are witnessing hints at the base code of the universe; between this and quarks and muons and all that kind of stuff? I don’t really know what I’m talking about, just a bunch of questions I’m asking to try and grasp the concepts . Any academic paper recommendations or lectures or podcast interviews from experts in the field would be super helpful if anyone ever bothers to read this gargantuan post.

  • @cryptar
    @cryptar Před 6 dny

    ict homework ;)

  • @Wilhelm_LAS
    @Wilhelm_LAS Před 7 dny

    Ok. Now lets keep working for pieces of a paper that tells a number and store them inside a bank in this lovely world 😑

  • @Youtuber-ku4nk
    @Youtuber-ku4nk Před 7 dny

    Not just the black hole but also the incredible amount of stars in and around the core.

  • @AnonymousAccount514

    the old footage gives me a semi

  • @jeangerardjuniorgege

    one thing is certain: we need AI to remove vocal fry on the fly. damnit

  • @dicesdw
    @dicesdw Před 8 dny

    I think mathematicians are a little bit egocentric

  • @DeveloperOfGames
    @DeveloperOfGames Před 8 dny

    who the fuck are you?

  • @davidmccarty6209
    @davidmccarty6209 Před 8 dny

    That's why it's important to have a home for the Jewish people, so more inventors can make great things, unlike 🕋 other religions that circle a rock 🪨 and have nothing to this world but horrible events

  • @robinwhitebeam4386
    @robinwhitebeam4386 Před 8 dny

    'Black holes can be the most luminous objects in the universe ' ? Luminous holes ?

  • @Rarests
    @Rarests Před 8 dny

    I love how he says 'if humanity survives long enough'. Great reminder, we really need to do better.

  • @mppdidi9436
    @mppdidi9436 Před 9 dny

    focusing on the brain ... why .... | cheerz

  • @douglasespindola5185

    There should be a nobel prize for the efforts in teaching so complex subjects in an affordable way like this video does. Awesome job! Greetings from Brazil!

  • @421sap
    @421sap Před 9 dny

    In Jesus' Name Amen ✝️

  • @afriend8961
    @afriend8961 Před 9 dny

    I taught him well. Good to see one of my students succeed. =).

  • @googleyoutubechannel8554

    This was deeply unsatisfying because the theory in this area seems so weak and naive, comp sci (and related fields) have no robust theory of ‘Meaning’, of 'understanding', of 'intelligence'. What's failing here is our frameworks for describing cognition and the world, theorists have let us down.

  • @architectofheaven
    @architectofheaven Před 9 dny

    The figure at timestamp 7:14 confused me. The first three terms show the value of the power of the prime in the denominator (2^3=8, 3^4=81), but in the remaining terms the denominators are left in the power representation (7^2, 11^3). Since you are only given a few seconds to look at this, it is hard to discern the pattern. It would have been better to leave the first three terms in the original form (2^0s, 2^1s, 2^2s, 2^3s, ....). MHO