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4/29/2026

一些常聽的 Podcast 節目和培養英文聽力的方法

一些常聽的 Podcast 節目 (*)，適合坐車、(讓眼睛) 休息、睡前、或運動時聽 (Some frequently listened-to podcasts (*) suitable for listening while traveling, giving your eyes a rest, before bed, or during exercise.)

Acquired (You could look at its transcript using iPhone.)

Google Part III: The AI Company

I am listening to it the third time to fill in some missed details.
In a rapidly changing world, learning how technology, corporations, and uncertainty management interact is essential.
Hinton did split the money fairly with his students, so the message in the podcast is incorrect.

Google search: Stories about its technology and business model
How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
The Complete History & Strategy of Microsoft: Vol. I, Vol. II
Renaissance Technologies: The best-performing investment firm of all time. A book. The hosts even talk about the hidden Markov process!
TSMC Founder Morris Chang

American Public Media: Marketplace
Asianometry: Global Semiconductor Issues, Semiconductor "Course", TSMC Analysis

The coming wave

Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma, Crown, September 5, 2023

洪慧芳譯，控制邊緣：未來科技與全球秩序的抉擇，感電出版，2024

AI Alignment

Articles:

Medha Bankhwal, Ankit Bisht, Michael Chui, Roger Roberts, and Ashley van Heteren, AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet, McKinsey, 2024.
Yoshua Bengio et al., Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress, Science, 20 May 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6698, pp. 842-845 (arXiv)
Jiaming Ji et al., AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey, arXiv:2310.19852 (website)
Jack Stilgoe, Technological risks are not the end of the world, Science, 18 Apr 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6693.

Optimization in Fusion Energy

Raphael Rosen, The 10-Second Algorithm That Could Unlock Fusion Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, March 16, 2025.

QUADCOIL is a groundbreaking computer code that simplifies the design of stellarator magnets, ensuring plasma shapes remain practical for real-world construction.

Unlike traditional methods, it rapidly predicts magnet complexity, saving time and effort. By integrating engineering constraints early, QUADCOIL helps streamline the path to cost-effective fusion energy.

Google's quantum chip Willow

Hartmut Neven, Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip, Google Research, Dec 09, 2024.

人工智慧研究得到 2024 諾貝爾物理學和化學獎

2024 諾貝爾物理學獎新聞

顏擇雅推薦書單

顏擇雅：暑假到了，不知大家都推薦什麼書給高中生? 以下是我順手想到的十本：

1.《張忠謀自傳》上冊。推薦原因是下冊快出來了，還沒看上冊的應該快點看。而且這本把成長與學習都寫超好的。我們可以從中學習一位偉大策略思考者應該具備什麼樣的人文養成。

1 兆電晶體 GPU 的到來

鉅亨網新聞中心，台積電董事長劉德音撰文談1兆電晶體GPU的到來，2024-03-29

文中指出，從 1997 年擊敗西洋棋人類冠軍的「深藍」，到 2023 年爆火的 ChatGPT，再過 15 年，人工智慧已經發展到可以「合成知識」(synthesize knowledge) 的地步，可以創作詩歌、創作藝術品、診斷疾病、編寫總結報告和電腦程式碼，甚至可以設計與人類製造的積體電路相媲美的積體電路。

Machine-Guided Discovery of a Real-World Rogue Wave (瘋狗浪) Model

台北天文館，AI 找到如何預測巨浪的公式，2023 年 12 月 02 日

Dion Häfner, Johannes Gemmrich, Markus Jochum, Machine-Guided Discovery of a Real-World Rogue Wave Model, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023), 120(48). (arXiv, data, code)

Using AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

Demis Hassabis, Using AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery, Institute for Ethics in AI Oxford, 2022.

1/15/2023

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023

David Rotman, 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023, MIT Technology Review, January 9, 2023.

Our annual look at 10 Breakthrough Technologies—including CRISPR for high cholesterol, battery recycling, AI that makes images, and the James Webb Space Telescope—that will have a profound effect on our lives. Plus care robots, 3-D printing pioneers, and chasing bugs on the blockchain.

12/17/2022

半導體產業的挑戰

魏哲家，半導體產業的挑戰，玉山科技論壇，2022-12-17

3/11/2022

Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

David Rolnic et al., Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2023, Article No.: 42, pp 1–96, https://doi.org/10.1145/3485128

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate. From smart grids to disaster management, we identify high impact problems where existing gaps can be filled by ML, in collaboration with other fields. Our recommendations encompass exciting research questions as well as promising business opportunities. We call on the ML community to join the global effort against climate change.

10/04/2021

DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain

Will Douglas Heaven, DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain, MIT Technology Review, September 29, 2021.

In a blind comparison with existing tools, several dozen experts judged DGMR’s forecasts to be the best across a range of factors—including its predictions of the location, extent, movement, and intensity of the rain—89% of the time. The results were published in a Nature paper today.

The CEO of Pfizer on Developing a Vaccine in Record Time

Albert Bourla, The CEO of Pfizer on Developing a Vaccine in Record Time, Harvard Business Review, May–June 2021.

On March 19, 2020, as Covid-19 swept across the world, Bourla challenged everyone at Pfizer and its partner BioNTech—a German company focused on cancer immunotherapies—to “make the impossible possible”: develop a vaccine more quickly than anyone ever had before, ideally within six months and certainly before the end of the year.
Less than eight months later, on Sunday, November 8, they discovered that they had succeeded: Their combined phase two and three trials showed a 95% efficacy rate. In the spring, thanks to their work and that of the other companies whose vaccines have been authorized, 300 million doses should be available around the world.
It took a moon-shot challenge, out-of-the-box thinking, intercompany cooperation, liberation from bureaucracy, and most of all, hard work from everyone at Pfizer and BioNTech to accomplish what they did in 2020. Organizations of any size or in any industry can learn from these strategies to solve their own problems and to produce important work that benefits a broad swath of society.