#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

Jeffrey Shainline is a physicist at NIST working on. Note: Opinions
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the timestamp to jump to that time. (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