Why Scientists Can't Rebuild a Polaroid Camera [César Hidalgo]
From Machine Learning Street Talk
César Hidalgo has spent years trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What is knowledge, and why is it so hard to move around? We all have this intuition that knowledge is just... information. Write it down in a book, upload it to GitHub, train an AI on it—done. But César argues that's completely wrong. Knowledge isn't a thing you can copy and paste. It's more like a living organism that needs the right environment, the right people, and constant exercise to survive. Guest: César Hida...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
7 people come up, including Paul Romer, Samuel Slater, Leon Thirststone.
- Paul Romer (Person)
- Samuel Slater (Person)
- Leon Thirststone (Person)
- Curtis Wayne Wright (Person)
- Linda Argot (Person)
- Rebecca Henderson (Person)
- David Krakow (Person)
What is recommended in this episode?
The Infinite Alphabet and the Loss of Knowledge.
Mentioned in this episode
- Barnes & Noble (Company)
- Polaroid (Company)
- China (Location)
- Nobel Prize (Event)
- Harvard (Company)
- Neom (Location)
- IBM (Company)
- MIT (Company)
- Kuwait (Location)
- Jong Wanjung (Location)