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OUTLINE:
0:00 — Introduction.
0:44 — How are processors made?
20:02 — Are engineers or physicists more important.
22:31 — Super-conductivity.
38:18 — Computation.
42:55 — Computation vs communication.
46:36 — Electrons for computation and light for communication.
57:19 — Neuromorphic computing.
1:22:11 — What is NIST?
1:25:28 — Implementing super-conductivity.
1:33:08 — The future of neuromorphic computing.
1:52:41 — Loop neurons.
1:58:57 — Machine learning.
2:13:23 — Cosmological evolution.
2:20:32 — Cosmological natural selection.
2:37:53 — Life in the universe.
2:45:40 — The rare Earth hypothesis.

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