Curated playlist
Formal sciences
- Computer scienceIs computer science a science, a branch of mathematics, or engineering? Experts still argue.
- Organoid intelligenceOrganoid intelligence connects lab-grown human brain cells to computers.
- MathematicsFor centuries, the word mathematics often meant astrology. In Latin and English, that held until around 1700.
- LogicLogic starts with a Sunday: if it's Sunday, you don't have to work.
- CryptographyA secret message was once tattooed on a slave's shaved head, then hidden under regrown hair.
- Artificial intelligenceHerbert Simon predicted in 1965 that machines would do any work a man can do within twenty years. He was wrong.
- Game theoryGame theory fits biology better than the economics it was built for. So said one of its pioneers, John Maynard Smith.
- Decision theoryA fair coin that landed tails several times still has a 0.5 chance of tails next.
- Pattern recognitionHow does a machine sort data into categories it was never explicitly shown? That is pattern recognition.
- StatisticsStatistics gets its name from the word for a state. It began as a way for governments to use population data.