Sometimes Bryan gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to Adam and the Oxide Friends. This was a well-crafted troll: is innovation slowing? Are the most interesting problems solved. In a word: no. For many more words, listen in!
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Steve Klabnik.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
- The Tweet
- Nate Silver
- Secularity
- Secular stagnation
- Angela Collier: physics progress in the last 70 years?
- Haber process
- CRISPR gene editing
- Book: Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
- Leonhard Euler
- Dijkstra's algorithm
- Raft
- Antibiotic
- Acquired: TSMC
- EUV lithography
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