Notion Podcast

Pioneers: Michael Nielsen

Nov 1, 2022

01:35:10

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The Importance of Enjoying Doing Good Work

01:56

The Field of Artificial Intelligence Is the Archetypal Field of a Field

02:37

Urbanism and Science Funding

02:09

What's the Analog of Small Block Sizes in Science?

01:41

Introduction

4min

Getting More Citations - What Are the Characteristics of Research Agendas?

2min

Taking a Snapshot of a Science Citation

6min

Randomizing Grant Funding

2min

The Importance of Ideas in Biology

2min

JavaScript Is a Little Bit More, It's Almost More Biological.

2min

Out of Control by Kevin Kelly

2min

Are You a CEO?

3min

Observability Effect

2min

10.

How Do You Change the Social Processes of Science?

4min

11.

The Pattern That We Get Interested in Things

2min

12.

Urbanism and Science Funding

2min

13.

What's the Analog of Small Block Sizes in Science?

2min

14.

Why Is It So Important to Be a Scientist?

3min

15.

Is There a Moral in Science?

2min

16.

What Is a Field?

3min

17.

Is There a Deep Set of Ideas in Quantum Computing?

3min

18.

The Field of Artificial Intelligence Is the Archetypal Field of a Field

3min

19.

Is There a Difference Between Understanding and Thinking?

2min

20.

A High Throughput Approach to Experimentation

3min

21.

Physicists, How Do You Think They'd Be Different if We Had More Machines?

3min

22.

Is Debugging a Good Idea?

3min

23.

I'm Not Going to Sleep Tonight

2min

24.

Seeing the Problems Differently Is So Important

2min

25.

The Most Successful Tools for Thought in Physics?

3min

26.

How Simulation Has Transformed Science?

3min

27.

Is There a Tool for Intuition?

6min

28.

The Rise of the Independent Researcher

4min

29.

Is There a Difference Between Reality and Experience?

3min

30.

Climate Change

4min

31.

What's the Strangest Thing?

4min

32.

Is There a Synchronicity?

4min

33.

Is There a Difference Between Tolkien and Geynman?

2min

Michael Nielsen is a quantum physicist, science writer, computer programming researcher, and modern polymath working on tools to expand human capacity to think and create. He’s previously authored pioneering quantum computing books, propelled forward the open science movement, and published research on artificial intelligence. He now researches meta-science at the Astera Institute, while writing about his many interests online.

See www.notion.so/blog/michael-nielsen for episode transcript.

Hosted by Devon Zuegel

Edited by Anson Yu

Audio by The Land Films