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Episode 24: Melanie Mitchell - The nature of intelligence and following your curiosity
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Innhold levert av Ryan McGranaghan. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av Ryan McGranaghan eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
Show Notes:
- Santa Fe Institute (2:00)
- Alexander Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow (4:30)
- The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett (5:45)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (7:30)
- Martin Gardner Scientific American “Mathematical Games" (8:30)
- Douglas Hofstadter (10:00)
- John Holland (14:30)
- Copycat cognitive architecture (17:00)
- What sustains her in moments of doubt (21:00)
- Article about analogies related to COVID (25:00)
- Overcoming the sense of obligation to follow curiosity (27:30)
- Strategy for saying ’no’ (29:45)
- Morning routine (31:00)
- Pomodoro Method for time management (33:00)
- Complexity and complex systems (39:00)
- Must read: Chaos by James Gleick
- R-naught parameter and COVID (44:00)
- Becoming comfortable with uncertainty (45:00)
- Think about the world in terms of information
- Think more complexly - think in relationships instead of entities (46:45)
- SFI - Transmission Series (49:15)
- What is missing from our models of intelligence? (50:00)
- Writing process (54:00)
- Anne Lamott Bird by Bird (57:45)
- Lightning round (58:30)
- Book: The Recursive Universe
- Passion: outdoors
- Heart sing: analogy and abstraction beyond human intelligence
- Screwed up: Early life with with physics
- Find Melanie online
- https://melaniemitchell.me/
- Twitter: @MelMitchell1
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series
68 episoder
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Manage episode 300882161 series 2974825
Innhold levert av Ryan McGranaghan. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av Ryan McGranaghan eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
Show Notes:
- Santa Fe Institute (2:00)
- Alexander Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow (4:30)
- The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett (5:45)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (7:30)
- Martin Gardner Scientific American “Mathematical Games" (8:30)
- Douglas Hofstadter (10:00)
- John Holland (14:30)
- Copycat cognitive architecture (17:00)
- What sustains her in moments of doubt (21:00)
- Article about analogies related to COVID (25:00)
- Overcoming the sense of obligation to follow curiosity (27:30)
- Strategy for saying ’no’ (29:45)
- Morning routine (31:00)
- Pomodoro Method for time management (33:00)
- Complexity and complex systems (39:00)
- Must read: Chaos by James Gleick
- R-naught parameter and COVID (44:00)
- Becoming comfortable with uncertainty (45:00)
- Think about the world in terms of information
- Think more complexly - think in relationships instead of entities (46:45)
- SFI - Transmission Series (49:15)
- What is missing from our models of intelligence? (50:00)
- Writing process (54:00)
- Anne Lamott Bird by Bird (57:45)
- Lightning round (58:30)
- Book: The Recursive Universe
- Passion: outdoors
- Heart sing: analogy and abstraction beyond human intelligence
- Screwed up: Early life with with physics
- Find Melanie online
- https://melaniemitchell.me/
- Twitter: @MelMitchell1
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series
68 episoder
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