Into The Impossible
- Autor: Vários
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- Duração: 660:59:12
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A podcast of stories, ideas, and speculations from the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. Each month, we'll bring you into a conversation between visionaries from the worlds of arts, sciences, humanities, engineering, and medicine on the nature of the imagination and how, through speculative culture, we collaborate to create the future.
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Did We Find Alien Technology? Avi Loeb Explains
21/03/2026 Duração: 01h54minPlease join my mailing list here
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Andy Weir Explains the Real Science of Project Hail Mary
20/03/2026 Duração: 01h10minPlease join my mailing list here
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Meta NeuroScientist SHOCKED Me: Scale Alone Won’t Create Consciousness!
16/03/2026 Duração: 57minPlease join my mailing list here
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What's The Real Value of Your Degree? Aswath Damodaran
09/03/2026 Duração: 01h11minPlease join my mailing list here
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John C. Lennox: Has AI Become God? The Ultimate THREAT of Artificial Intelligence
24/02/2026 Duração: 01h27minPlease join my mailing list here
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Can You Find God in the Laws of Physics? This is World!
23/02/2026 Duração: 40minPlease join my mailing list here
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Nikolay Kukushkin: Slugs Have Memories
10/02/2026 Duração: 01h21minPlease join my mailing list here
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Sam Arbesman: "The World is Made of Code"
02/02/2026 Duração: 01h15minPlease join my mailing list here
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The Mysterious Math Behind LLMs | Anil Ananthaswamy
23/01/2026 Duração: 01h10minWANTED: Developers and STEM experts! Get paid to create benchmarks and improve AI models. Sign up for Alignerr using our link: https://alignerr.com/?referral-source=briankeating One of the most powerful AI systems we’ve ever built is succeeding for reasons we still don’t understand. And worse, they may succeed for reasons that might lock us into the wrong future for humanity. Today’s guest is Anil Ananthaswamy, an award-winning science writer and one of the clearest thinkers on the mathematical foundations of machine learning. In this conversation, we’re not just talking about new demos, incremental improvements, or updates on new models being released. We’re asking even harder questions: Why does the mathematics of machine learning work at all? How do these models succeed when they suffer from problems like overparameterization and lack of training data? And are large language models revealing deep structure, or are they just producing very convincing illusions and causing us to face an increasingly
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Is the Universe Random or Deterministic, or Neither? (ft. Andrew Jaffe)
12/01/2026 Duração: 01h11minGet My NEW Book: Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8DH6SX Andrew Jaffe Book: The Random Universe: https://www.amazon.com/Random-Universe-Models-Probability-Cosmos/dp/0300250509 Is the universe intrinsically random? In this conversation, we dive deep into why the universe may be fundamentally, intrinsically random. Whether inflation on life support, the truth behind the Hubble tension, and whether cosmology is approaching the event horizon, limits beyond which humans can never know. Today we're joined by one of the architects of modern cosmological inference, Professor Andrew Jaffee, author of a new book called The Random Universe that argues that every observation in science is shaped by the models we bring to it, biases and all. KEY TAKEAWAYS 00:00–01:13 — Science and life rely on building models. 01:13–03:35 — Models of people and reality are often wrong and revised. 04:04–06:01 — Observation depends on prior theories. 06:01–07:32 — Models can’t be escaped, only improve
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Max Tegmark vs. Eric Weinstein: AI, Aliens, Theories, & New Year’s Resolutions! (Repost from 2021)
01/01/2026 Duração: 02h31minWin a $100 Amazon Gift Card! Help me help you get great guests on the Into the Impossible podcast and spread the message throughout the universe. Fill out this listener survey: https://forms.gle/EUKzyE2ZqXDYJ2F47 Please join my mailing list here
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Can AI help us solve the hardest problems in Mathematics? (ft. Terry Tao)
30/12/2025 Duração: 01h16minAnswer my survey to get a chance to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!
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Physicists Missed These Particle Tracks for Decades (ft. Daniel Whiteson)
26/12/2025 Duração: 49minPlease join my mailing list here
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Brian Keating’s Journey: Nobel Dreams and Cosmic Questions | Cheltenham and UK Philosophers
24/12/2025 Duração: 01h13minBrian Keating sits down with Matt Gray for a wide-ranging, thoughtful, and entertaining conversation that explores the intersection of cosmology, philosophy, and mysticism. Together, they tackle some of the universe’s biggest mysteries—from the origins of the cosmos and the mechanics of the Big Bang, to the challenges and philosophy behind scientific discovery. Timestamps: 00:00 "Science, Nobel Near-Miss, and Humor" 07:26 "Passion for Science and Sharing" 12:00 "Chasing a Nobel-Worthy Discovery" 20:42 Limits of Scientific Falsifiability 22:18 "Origins and Concepts of Cosmology" 32:28 "Galileo, Einstein, and Scientific Progress" 34:16 "Nobel Prizes and Collaboration Challenges" 38:58 "Galactic Dust and Panspermia" 48:15 Agnostic vs. Atheist Questioning 51:44 John Lennox: Faith, Science, and Scripture 58:35 Equations, God, and Belief Dynamics 01:03:12 Belief Nuances and Perspectives 01:06:07 Maxwell's Ether and Light Waves - Join this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours:
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Avi Loeb: What Is 3I/ATLAS?
23/12/2025 Duração: 01h17minPlease join my mailing list to get FREE notes and resources from this show, plus your chance to win a real meteorite: http://briankeating.com/yt Join us LIVE with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb for the final verdict on the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed visitor from beyond our solar system. We examine the newly proposed 14th anomaly: the remarkably rare alignment of 3I/ATLAS’s rotation axis within about 8 degrees of the sunward direction at distances greater than 5 AU, a configuration with a probability of less than about 0.5 percent if random. This alignment has major implications for how we interpret the object’s anti-tail jet geometry, rotational dynamics, and overall physical behavior, adding to a growing list of anomalies that strain standard cometary explanations. Whether you are interested in jets, rotation periods, anti-tail physics, or what these observations imply about natural versus technological origins, this livestream offers a rigorous, evidence-driven deep dive. We will
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Did You Know This Genius Changed Physics Forever?
22/12/2025 Duração: 16minPlease join my mailing list here
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Will It Happen Again? Comets and Asteroids Extinction with Govert Schilling
15/12/2025 Duração: 53minPlease join my mailing list here