Like the Founding Fathers of the United States, I find certain truths to be self-evident. The sun rises from the East. Mexican food tastes better in Mexico. And, knowledge should be shared.
While my take on Mexican food may not be held universally, I always assumed the other two were…until this week. I am reading “Genius Makers” by Cade Metz, a non-fiction book on the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the stories of the academics that made it happen. In Chapter 2, the author references two occasions where scientists declined to explain a discovery in layman’s terms. One of the examples is Nobel Prize winner, Richard Feynman, who said “If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.” I’m sorry, WHAT?!
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