No physicicst I have ever met has ever thought that. I nominate Enrico Fermi.
- Prototyped Nuclear reactor
- Also atom bomb
- Lots of thermodynamics
I do not like pop scientists, and their distillations of rather complex and contetnious topics.
I was a little horrified by your treatment of this guys. Artificial Intelligence is a field in very poor standing now. Machine learning does NOT equal artifical intelligence, and you know it. I am very, very surprised you did not make the distinction. The world will not be taken over by a nueral net, or genetic algorith no matter how many GPUâs you give it. These algorithms are heuristics, and in no way even attempt to model the brain.
That conversation was also very frustrating. Hereâs the thing no one mentioned:
The reason everyone is so concerned about getting their code into the official release, is that is the way that you get credit with the developer community. Yes, I can make my own extensions for Ubuntu, but you know what - I donât want to slap on Canonicalâs branding on to it unless I get official credit. I may as well put my branding on it, and leave Cannonical out in the dust if I am going to my own unsanctioned additions. Mine forever.
Think about the kernal. Yes, everyone on earth can fork the kernal and put in whatever they like. But they donât! - you know why? Because we want to be involved in the movement. Programmers need recognition, we donât just do this for our pleasure. I wont slave over some kernal mode driver, with zero chance of anyone ever using it. I might do that for music, but I wont do that for code. Official means a LOT
I wish you would have covered the âreal nameâ policy a little more. That is something which is driving people away from facebook. I agree, Ello isnât very good, but Iâd love to not have my real name on facebook.
This interview was very good, but one area of tech journalism that I think is extremly wrong is that tech journalists are fully complicit in tech hype. I donât mean advertising, or puff pieces. What I mean is, certain areas become an echo chamber with few dissenting voices. There have major issues with 3D printers, and the companies that sell them, for years. No journalist I have ever met has ever done any more research or reporting that âSquee! How cool!â
I want more muck raking, and less glorified unboxing video.
The thing about the gone in 60 seconds segments, as that I find them interesting, and I wish you guys would have used this topic for a full on discussion.
Thanks for the great episode! Frustration or not.