Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, March 24, 2023
Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question
Plus: Ethernet Pioneer wins Turing award; Surprise combinatorics breakthrough; Category theory on "The Joy of Why"; Dinosaur size; Quadratic functions
Last fall, a team of physicists announced that they had teleported a qubit through a holographic wormhole in a quantum computer. Now another group suggests that's not quite what happened.
Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction.
Dinosaur Bone Study Reveals That Not All Giants Grew Alike
By ANNA GIBBS
A survey of prehistoric bones reveals that T. rex and some of its cousins had more than one way to reach enormous sizes. Evolution may have preserved that variation in modern animals too.
Bye Bye Bias Artificial intelligence is notoriously plagued by bias. For MIT Technology Review, Niall Firth reports on research that suggests a surprisingly simple solution: Ask the AI to be unbiased. Biases in AI often reflect the biases — unconscious and otherwise — in our society. In 2020, Natalie Wolchover wrote for Quanta about how AI does what it's told and why that's often a problem.
Brain Stem Researchers have traced how different types of stem cells take on specialized roles in the brain, reports Heidi Ledford for Nature. They injected stem cells into the brains of mice and watched as the human brain tissue grew and differentiated. Integrating human brain tissue into the brains of mice and rats is a young technology that enables a host of neurological experiments. In 2022, Allison Whitten wrote for Quanta about how implanted brain "organoids" could be used to study neurodevelopment.
