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Andrew’s papers:
Soft Hair on Black Holes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00921
Photon Rings Around Warped Black Holes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01674
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:34) – Black holes
(11:37) – Albert Einstein
(31:05) – Quantum gravity
(35:17) – String theory
(46:05) – Holographic principle
(54:02) – De Sitter space
(59:14) – Speed of light
(1:06:02) – Black hole information paradox
(1:13:41) – Soft particles
(1:22:48) – Physics vs mathematics
(1:31:58) – Theory of everything
(1:47:20) – Time
(1:49:45) – Photon rings
(2:05:26) – Thought experiments
(2:13:47) – Aliens
(2:19:25) – Nuclear weapons
#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision
#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine
#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
#92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
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