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In The Foothills Of A Pandemic - Yaneer Bar-Yam
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Highlight Intellectually and Personally of My Time at MIT
In middle school, when the tragedies of Biafra happened, you wanted to be a physicist. As a graduate student at MIT, you studied defects in silicon and surfaces of semiconductors as a way of doing this practical studies. You were asked by an IBM employee if heuristics helped him design chips; that cut you badly because you'd been chosen for your talent. A few years later on complex systems, you learned about dynamics of food prices due to the financial crisis.
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