Why Scientists Can't Rebuild a Polaroid Camera [César Hidalgo]
From Machine Learning Street Talk
César Hidalgo has spent years trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What is knowledge, and why is it so hard to move around? We all have this intuition that knowledge is just... information. Write it down in a book, upload it to GitHub, train an AI on it—done. But César argues that's completely wrong. Knowledge isn't a thing you can copy and paste. It's more like a living organism that needs the right environment, the right people, and constant exercise to survive. Guest: César Hida...
Mentioned in This Episode
- The Infinite Alphabet and the Loss of Knowledge (book)
- Barnes & Noble (company)
- Paul Romer (person)
- Samuel Slater (person)
- Polaroid (company)
- Leon Thirststone (person)
- Curtis Wayne Wright (person)
- Linda Argot (person)
- Rebecca Henderson (person)
- China (location)
- Jeff Bezos (person)
- Nobel Prize (event)
- Vietnam (location)
- David Krakow (person)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (person)
- Neom (location)
- IBM (company)
- Harvard (company)
- MIT (company)
- Jong Wanjung (location)