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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(05:56) – How are processors made?

(25:15) – Are engineers or physicists more important

(27:43) – Super-conductivity

(43:31) – Computation

(48:07) – Computation vs communication

(51:48) – Electrons for computation and light for communication

(1:02:32) – Neuromorphic computing

(1:27:23) – What is NIST?

(1:30:41) – Implementing super-conductivity

(1:38:20) – The future of neuromorphic computing

(1:57:54) – Loop neurons

(2:04:09) – Machine learning

(2:18:36) – Cosmological evolution

(2:25:44) – Cosmological natural selection

(2:43:05) – Life in the universe

(2:50:52) – The rare Earth hypothesis