Sam Arbesman on the magic of code, tools for thought, interdisciplinary ideas, and latent spaces (AC Ep5)
Description
Code, ultimately, is this weird material that’s somewhere between the physical and the informational… it connects to all these different domains—science, the humanities, social sciences—really every aspect of our lives.
– Sam Arbesman
About Sam Arbesman
Sam Arbesman is Scientist in Residence at leading venture capital firm Lux Capital. He works at the boundaries of areas such as open science, tools for thought, managing complexity, network science, artificial intelligence, and infusing computation into everything. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He is the award-winning author of books including Overcomplicated, The Half Life of Facts, and The Magic of Code, which will be released shortly.
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What you will learn
- Rekindling wonder through computing
- Code as a universal solvent of ideas
- Tools for thought and cognitive augmentation
- The human side of programming and AI
- Connecting art, science, and technology
- Uncovering latent knowledge with AI
- Choosing technologies that enrich humanity
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Transcript
Ross Dawson: Sam, it is wonderful to have you on the show.
Sam Arbesman: Thank you so much. Great to be talking with you.
Ross: So you have a book coming out. When’s it coming out?
Sam: It comes out June 10. So, yeah, so it comes out June 10. The name of the book is The Magic of Code, and it’s about, basically, the wonders and weirdness of computing—kind of viewing computation and code and all the things around computers less as a branch of engineerin
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