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The speaker says one could make a scientific argument that materials science is the hardest scientific field.
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“when we started the science pod there were all these like elements of AI and science AI and math AI and physics and all these things and there was this like kind of pissing contest like which is harder and like I think like you can make the scientific argument that material science is the hardest.”Play from 41:28Report a misattribution
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