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Rana Adhikari, winner of the 2019 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize, joins Aditya Agarwal to discuss his 'minus one' journey as an experimental physicist, the current state of LLMs, and the vision that led to the creation of India’s own LIGO facility.
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1. Rana Adhikari- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rana-adhikari-26bb73165/
2. Aditya Agarwal- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/
3. South Park Commons- https://www.linkedin.com/company/southparkcommons/
00:00 Trailer
01:03 Introduction
01:58 Figuring things out
07:30 Toughest lesson
12:27 Bad mentor
15:33 LIGO and Quantum Science
19:34 Intuition
26:01 LLMs
30:47 Learning the outcome = winning
35:07 Learnings from LIGO
43:43 Black hole myths
47:12 Outro
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