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#77 - John Preskill
Y Combinator
English - May 16, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsTechnology Business Careers business entrepreneurship startups interview technology productivity culture the 4-hour workweek tim ferriss tim ferris Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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John Preskill is a theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech.
He once won a bet with Steven Hawking, which as he writes made him “briefly almost famous.” John and Kip Thorne bet that singularities could exist outside of black holes and after six years Hawking conceded that they were possible in very special, “nongeneric” conditions.
In this episode we cover what John’s been focusing on for years: quantum information, quantum computing, and quantum error correction.
Read the transcript here.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.