Steven Chu on calling his mother after being awarded the Nobel Prize: "That's nice, but when are you gonna visit me next?"
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4
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@aasforum.bsky.socialSteven Chu on calling his mother after being awarded the Nobel Prize: "That's nice, but when are you gonna visit me next?"
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4
@aasforum.bsky.socialSteven Chu: as Energy Secretary he found a transmission line took 11 years to approve but only 2 to build — so when someone had to take charge of cutting it to 3, he raised his hand.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4
@aasforum.bsky.socialSteven Chu on optical tweezers: Art Ashkin trapped E. coli with light in the mid-1980s; Chu's bet was to grab a single biomolecule via a polystyrene sphere — two years later it worked.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4
@aasforum.bsky.socialSteven Chu on laser cooling: his boss Chuck Shank told him he had earned the right to try — but it wouldn't work. Within a year, it worked.
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVrtFJe-B4
@aasforum.bsky.socialSteven Chu: AI's energy and learning vs. the human brain. Did you know children master complex skills with vastly less data and energy than AI? It's a powerful lesson in efficiency.