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Matt Strassler is a theoretical particle physicist, blogger and writer whose research often takes him to the Large Hadron Collider. He is the author of Waves in an Impossible Sea, a popular book about ...
The Industrial Revolution brought us the laws of thermodynamics, and new ideas about work, energy and efficiency. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical physicist Nicole ...
The Industrial Revolution brought us the laws of thermodynamics, and new ideas about work, energy and efficiency. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical physicist Nicole ...
Diffusion models generate incredible images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, causes ink to spread through water. The Quanta Newsletter ...