Josh Clark
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And then also, as ITER is spending billions and billions and billions of dollars and running into tons of delays, it is an amazing project.
Leeuwenhoek.
Yeah, it was neat, because Hooke heard about Leeuwenhoek's microscopes, got his hands on one, or a microscope, looked at a cork and said, oh, there's such a thing as cells.
Either we're all just totally off our rockers and really somebody forgot to carry a one and everybody forgot to carry a one, or this is really how things started.
Yeah, and that was true, geez, for a long time until about the mid to late, about 1876 when these British businessmen said, I'm going to sneak these rubber tree seeds out, take them back to England, and we're going to see if these things grow in Southeast Asia where we have a lot of British colonies.
And so scientists will use Occam's razor in all sorts of different disciplines.
This guy came up with the idea of atoms, which he not only said were the indivisible base units of everything, everything.
Lockheed Martin basically just came out and said, oh, by the way, this thing that you're trying to do that's going to be 100 feet tall and require staggering amounts of energy and money, we're doing one that puts out the same amount
Like, for example, if you're making an artificial neural network, right, like a learning machine.
And it's just mind-boggling to think.
Leeuwenhoek said, oh, that's pretty neat, let me try.
Alright, so in that very first, first, first, first moment, theorists think that those four primary forces that we mentioned are still hanging together, they're still united, and that matter and energy were inseparable at this point.
You might use decision trees, and you will use some sort of simple decision tree over a more complicated one that can get the same job done.
He also said that they were indestructible and eternal.
And he said, oh, there's such a thing as, quote, little animals, which we call protozoan bacteria.
And then he also said that they exist in free space around us, what you would call today a vacuum.
And one of the royal societies, after Leeuwenhoek presented his findings, turned back to Hooke.