I had a nice discussion with Robert Wright on his podcast Nonzero on the technical workings of AI aimed at a nontechnical audience. We go into the details about transformers (the architecture underlying models like ChatGPT), aimed both at a high level understanding as well as going into the weeds of the internal mechanisms. Along … Continue reading How Does AI Work?

Ever wanted a technical understanding of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics? Then join Sean Carroll and I at The Cartesian Cafe for a mathematical-philosophical whiteboard session on the foundations of QM and emergent spacetime: https://youtu.be/LGtimjuA5gA We start with a basic overview of textbook quantum mechanics: states in a Hilbert space, the Schrodinger equation, … Continue reading Sean Carroll | The Many Worlds Interpretation & Emergent Spacetime

I just released my podcast conversation with physicist Daniel Schroeder on thermodynamics where we address two fundamental questions: "What is temperature?" and "What is entropy?". Dan is the author of two revered physics textbooks An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (with M. Peskin) and An Introduction to Thermal Physics both of which were used in … Continue reading Daniel Schroeder: Introduction to Thermal Physics