The concept of parallelism is applied to instructional programs to fetch a lot of instructions and determine the dependency graph in order to issue instructions faster, but it is important to recognize sentences that can be read in any order without changing the intended meaning.
Parallel programming will eventually involve programming in a specific reference frame and utilizing models from physics to process all possible parallel occurrences while addressing the potential problems of simultaneous timelines.
The medieval story of the princess and the dragon is used to illustrate the concept of the functional fix - the idea that when we focus too narrowly on a problem's solution, we can become blind to potentially better or more efficient alternatives.
The AI community is increasingly recognizing the importance of language in connecting vision and cognition, as seen with recent work on Transformers. The question remains whether language or vision is more fundamental to our understanding of the world.
From flying planes for Bugsy with the mob to owning 80 acres of property across the street from Tropicana and purchasing MGM, Kurt Krakorian turned TWA into a multibillion-dollar company before giving $1 billion to Armenia after the earthquake of 1988. The podcast host asks listeners to reflect on their own sequencing successes and failures.
This podcast episode explores 19 different explanations of consciousness and how language, like a low-resolution JPEG, can only capture a fraction of the full picture.