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The Quanta Podcast

Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot will appear biweekly on Thursdays.

All Episodes about computer science

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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

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The Ends of the Earth

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Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History

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With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits

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For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

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Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI

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Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

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AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK

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Introducing The Quanta Podcast

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Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold

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Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement

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Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy

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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

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Tiny Language Models Come of Age

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