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#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Only Way to Knowledge Is to Ask the Dumb Questions

i think if i serve as an inspiration in any way, i's by asking a lot of dumb questions. I hope that inspires the rest ofo other folks to do the same. One of my favorite papers on the platform is actually a paper written by henrico fermi. He was probably one of the first persons to calculate the energy of the explosion. And so he took a piece of paper, and he tore down a piece of paper in little pieces. When the bomb explodedthe rinity bomb was the name of the bomb ihe waited for the blast to arrive at where he was,. Then he threw those pieces of paper in the air. That vidio went viral

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