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, April 26, 2024
AI Sifts Through String Theory's Many Possibilities
Plus: Redefining the meaning of "keystone species"; Finding meaning in LLMs; The magic of milk on "The Joy of Why"; Crazy cuts through four dimensions
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities
By CHARLIE WOOD
Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.
Ecologists Struggle to Get a Grip on 'Keystone Species'
By LESLEY EVANS OGDEN
More than 50 years after Bob Paine's experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced "keystones" in their ecosystems. Has the powerful metaphor lost its mathematical meaning?
Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.
By JOHN PAVLUS
Are large language models intelligent? This question requires a messy blend of philosophy and semantics. Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist at Brown University and Google Deepmind, savors the task.
Human nutrition begins with milk, but the wondrous biofluid does much more than feed babies. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with molecular nutritionist Elizabeth Johnson about her research into the impact of human milk on a healthy microbiome.
Mathematicians Marvel at 'Crazy' Cuts Through Four Dimensions
By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
To make sense of four-dimensional spaces, mathematicians study surfaces embedded within them. A recent paper shows that these surfaces can be a lot more complicated than they seem.
