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Is math something humans invent—or something we discover? And why does it describe the universe so uncannily well? In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson sits down with mathematicians David Berlinski, Sergiu Klainerman, and Stephen C. Meyer to explore one of the deepest mysteries in science and philosophy:...

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The Gaussian integral is a key concept in mathematics, often used in probability, statistics, and physics. It calculates the area under the bell-shaped curve of the Gaussian (or normal) distribution. ✍️
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The Gaussian integral is a key concept in mathematics, often used in probability, statistics, and physics. It calculates the area under the bell-shaped curve of the Gaussian (or normal) distribution. ✍️

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David Chalmers on the one thing science can't explain: Consciousness is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the one science has almost nothing to say about. That's the puzzle Chalmers lays out in this early interview, and it's as disorienting today as it was then. His starting point is deceptively simple. Everything we know about the external world: subatomic particles, distant stars, the chemistry of life. We know through consciousness. It's the very first thing we have. And yet when we turn science around and try to explain consciousness itself, we hit a wall. "Consciousness is what we start with when it comes to knowing the world and looking out at the world… everything else is secondary." What makes this so strange is the asymmetry. We've made extraordinary progress understanding things that are genuinely remote and difficult quantum mechanics, stellar evolution, molecular biology. But understanding our own inner experience? Almost nothing. "It almost sticks out like a sore thumb in the scientific picture." This is what Chalmers would later formalise as the "hard problem of consciousness": not just explaining how the brain processes information or controls behaviour. Those are hard, but tractable. The real mystery is why any of that physical activity is accompanied by experience at all. Why is there something it feels like to be you? The question isn't abstract. It sits at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy, physics, and AI. As we build systems that process language and reason about the world, the question of whether they are or could be conscious presses harder than ever. Chalmers doesn't offer an answer here. Only the sharpest possible version of the question.
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Math is the source of enormous technological innovation and surprise, but it can take decades to make breakthroughs. Patrick Shafto is leading our new Exponentiating Mathematics program that will explore how AI can radically accelerate the rate of progress in mathematics.
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Math is the source of enormous technological innovation and surprise, but it can take decades to make breakthroughs. Patrick Shafto is leading our new Exponentiating Mathematics program that will explore how AI can radically accelerate the rate of progress in mathematics.

DARPA

67,004 views • 1 year ago

For the second edition of the George P. Shultz Memorial Lecture Series, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice, Senior Fellow Michael Boskin, and Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson assemble for a wide-ranging conversation on the economic mind and legacy of George P. Shultz. From his early career as a labor economist at MIT and the University of Chicago to his battles in the White House cabinet over wage and price controls, the closing of the gold window, and the inflation that defined the Nixon and Reagan eras, Shultz emerges as a rare figure who fused intellectual rigor with political pragmatism. The panel explores how his beliefs in free markets, personal integrity, and "trust as the coin of the realm" shaped his actions, from collective bargaining and desegregation to global diplomacy—right up to his famous economic tutorials for Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin. This is a timely look at how one man's economic philosophy helped steer American policy for half a century. Watch the full episode of Uncommon Knowledge on X:
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For the second edition of the George P. Shultz Memorial Lecture Series, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice, Senior Fellow Michael Boskin, and Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson assemble for a wide-ranging conversation on the economic mind and legacy of George P. Shultz. From his early career as a labor economist at MIT and the University of Chicago to his battles in the White House cabinet over wage and price controls, the closing of the gold window, and the inflation that defined the Nixon and Reagan eras, Shultz emerges as a rare figure who fused intellectual rigor with political pragmatism. The panel explores how his beliefs in free markets, personal integrity, and "trust as the coin of the realm" shaped his actions, from collective bargaining and desegregation to global diplomacy—right up to his famous economic tutorials for Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin. This is a timely look at how one man's economic philosophy helped steer American policy for half a century. Watch the full episode of Uncommon Knowledge on X:

Hoover Institution

27,971 views • 7 months ago

The Gaussian integral is a key concept in mathematics, often used in probability, statistics, and physics. It calculates the area under the bell-shaped curve of the Gaussian (or normal) distribution. 📹math.animations
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The Gaussian integral is a key concept in mathematics, often used in probability, statistics, and physics. It calculates the area under the bell-shaped curve of the Gaussian (or normal) distribution. 📹math.animations

Physics In History

20,739 views • 1 month ago