PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS Game theory is everywhere, from the moves you make in chess to the way countries negotiate treaties, from the strategies in our favorite video game to the decisions we make every day. But how did this field come to be? Who were the brilliant minds behind it, and what mathematical breakthroughs made it possible? Welcome to Math! Science!
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flashcard Fridays at Math! Science! History!, where we explore the beautiful, messy, brilliant evolution of human thought. I’m Gabrielle Birchak, and today I’m briefly covering the life of a man whose mind helped save millions of lives and lay the groundwork for the digital age we live in. He cracked codes, he challenged the norms, he made
Today, I travel back to the nineteenth century to meet with Pierre-Simon Laplace, a man who imagined a super-intelligence so powerful, it could calculate the entire history and future of the universe.
The developments in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence now allow us to read the works of fragile, scrolls that have never been read before.