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Quanta Podcast

Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

All Episodes about computer science

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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To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

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Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics

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New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI

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Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow

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Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations

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Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography

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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

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Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem

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Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code

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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

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Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

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