I literally go to sleep every night to his documentaries. Sounds insane but I’ve seen each one about 600 times

Jim's a great guy and his science videos are some of my favourite. The content is utterly fascinating and it's presented in a way that allows ordinary people like myself to understand it. It's just such a MASSIVE SHAME that some sections of his videos are often spoiled by the noisy backing tracks that completely drown out the narrating 😕 If you enjoy his videos as much as I do, I recommend you watch the one about the history of electricity. I promise you will not be disappointed 😉

I wish I had a teacher like Professor Jim Al-Khalili when I was younger. I might have learned something.

This is part two of the 'Order and Disorder' series, the 'story of information'. Directed by Nic Stacey, music by Alex Menzies.

Thank you very much. Another beautiful lesson and documentary.

One man who deserved recognition is John Von Neumann, whose stored program control Computer architecture we still used today. He also had a lot to do with the development of the atomic hydrogen bombs.

I think this my favourite documentary ever.

Great video! Very moving.

21:57 this clicked for me ! superb documentary !

Jim is #1 in my book!

I´m from Brazil and i dont talk english, i understand a little about this language, but i put the legends to portuguese. This is video is amazing, this history and the things talked about in this video help me alot to understand this field. I´m a software engineer student, and i think this is very good to me and my learn to understand more of technology. THANK YOU Doc of the Day!!! Sorry about the wrong write, i´m practicing haha...

Great explanation

amazing one, thx a lot!

Amazing documentary

Such an interesting and captivating narration !! Wonderful! Thanks a lot! I will recommend it to all my students.

What’s most interesting is what comes next. Taking all that information and computing the probability of the next “word”. Large language models, or GAI does simply that and we are surprised at the result, the “appearance” of intelegence.

Thank U so much Mr JIM💓💓💓👍👍👍

I love Prof. Jim ❤ he is brilliant and so ealSy to listen too!😮

Great. Thank you.

BBC documentaries...best in the world.

Jim does a great job explaining with clarity at a certain speed for all to understand. Overall a great documentary, obviously from a British perspective gives Alan Turing praise although there are many poineers who contributed to computer science, a bit of diplomacy. Like Michio Kaku the japanese lecturer from New York who glorifies Albert Einstein, a patriotic path

i never rget bored with a JaK documentary 😃

Nice one.

I love jims programs, he could read a shopping list and make it interesting.

I sometimes find the background audio tracks to be way too loud, especially compared to the voice narration, making it difficult to follow along. Please keep this in mind for your viewers, who'd like to HEAR what's being said, and not so much noisy background distractions. Thank you.

When I was a child we used to write letters and sent telegrams. I loved the etiquette for personal, business, and legal correspondence. Then telephones became affordable and very popular. People forgot how to write a simple memo. A few decades later we were using cell phones and laptops. We went back to writing.....no etiquette or grammar rules. All these changes in a very short period of time if I consider I'm in my 50s'.... 😮mind blowing.

Nicely explain. the word computer is to compute ,

An atheist born in Iraq is great enough. But a man born in Iraq named Jim is awesome. I love this guy.

How could you give a history of computing without mentioning Boole (symbolic logc) and Babbage, (the Analytical Engine)?

I love these documentaries and Jim is one of THE very best. But I do wish the writers would think of something different to say at the beginning of these documentaries other than...."this is the story of......"

It's such a shame Alan Turning died so young what a genius he was.

The amazing thing was how did he know where to punch the holes in order to produce the self portrait

Interesting video. However, a small mention about teleportation of actual physical objects would have been good. For example.... You scan a drinking cup using a modern 3D scanner, then send the data over the internet to someone the other side of the world. The receiver then uses the data to recreate an exact physical copy of the cup using a 3D printer. When you think about it, it is a form of teleportation.

Fascinated by what the ancient mesopotamians felt about their new writing techniques. I’m wondering if it’s the earliest known usage of the phrase “These kids and their tablets” Possibly more remarkable is that their words for eye, dear and idea were all phonetically identical to modern English.

Very insightful again 👍 It intrigues to think that destroying information increases entropy… I would have wondered creating and maintaining would also increase the entropy elsewhere in the universe. Nonetheless, it makes literal sense that deleting info will increase entropy, as it is hard to change habits as quite literally one’s world seems to go in a disarray while changing habits 😉

where does the information come from?

The inventor of modern writing was Barney rubble

The newly developed animations of RNA transcription provided by the newest microscopes is are mind boggling examples of "natural computation".

Note that tam tam beats in Africa was incremental fast long distance sound carrier way to exchange information before electricity. I guess, for ages before even ....

The Atom, and, the secret life of caos, is also great.

Thanks for giving the best explanation of the bing bang theory, almost completed the How many information or rhythm can be into one drop of rain and we still can't catch it?Mix of sugar from up to the salt on earth.🤷🏾‍♀️🎯💯👍🏾👏🏾🥁

Professor Irving Finkel is lousy at telling jokes, but he is a powerhouse of knowledge about how we first learned how to write. Along the way, we created a class of students that copied words to clay tablets and papryus, so that their teachers could grade them. Thereby those old stories of renown were oft repeated, rather than just said. Writing is the greatest invention of humankind. Alan Turing had great respect for Jacquard and his invention.

Yes

What you can say about Mahabharatta and Vedas ?

What about the antikythera mechanism?

From about 6:00 or maybe earlier... And I thought Roy Walker invented Catchphrase.

I love the information but the soundtrack is maddening.

Surely, It was Professor George Boole's work that inspired Claud Shannon's paper. Boole was aware that his algebra could be utilised in machines. Boole stated he didn't have the skill or inclination to make these machines.

What museum was that at the beginning?

Thanks. Unless we invoke magic, the partition takes energy to open & close. tavi.

Jim Al-Khalili makes a basic error of omission by missing out the music produced by rotating drums invented at latest by 1770 in Switzerland but possibly earlier, and which almost certainly gave rise to the development of punch cards. And then, to quote Science Direct: The Babbage Analytical Engine, 1833, is considered the first steam-powered computer. Charles Babbage is considered by many to be the 'Father of the Computer' and his assistant, Lady Ada Lovelace, the 'First Computer Programmer' because she wrote mathematics problems for Babbage's machines. A conceptually much larger leap than Morse Code as the intended design allowed for the computation of 1,000 stored numbers with up to 50 digits, something not achieved for another century! How were these most basic facts missed out?

great. but why do you always skip Charles Babbage?

La semplice divina Dicotomia dell'Universo.

and more obvious it would take energy to open and close the partition

Why didn’t Jim mention the Babbage Analytic Engine and Ada Lovelace who wrote programs for it? Or did I miss it? They lived in the 1800’s, long before Turing. There’s even a programming language named after Ada. They should have gotten a mention. In my mind, this is a big miss by Jim. I hope someone can explain why they were omitted. He must have known about Babbage’s work.

This video is about information, not computer science. They are two almost completely different subjects,

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Need 4k

I do not know what he is talking about, but he seems to be very confident about what he is saying. If Lyon France could make such beautiful silk patterned fabric so easily by using punched hole in thick paper then France should have dominated the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the first-half of the 19th century. But it was England who dominated industrial manufacturing beginning in the 1830s with mechanized looms making blank pattern cotton fabrics. But I do remember attending undergraduate college and those math majors with their stacks of fortran cards. Those early computers read the fortran cards and executed their commands. So I am confused.

40 odd years ago i worked in an engineering firm they had punch card programmed lathes.

enigma

This is like Connections 2.0

4:47 "One of the few people who can still read them". As if Dr. Finkel was born over four thousand years ago.

The computers of 1936 used pen and paper but also adding machines (mechanical calculators).

Does that mean that by creating order we can create energy?

He definatley has something of Alexi Sayle

I thought information could not be lost according to Dr. Kip Thorne.

@ 44:15 _" In this paper Shannon did something absolutely incredible. He took the vague, mysterious concept of information and managed to pen it down. Now he didn't do this using some cleverly worded philosophical definition. He actually found a way to measure the information contained in a message. "_ @ 44:37 _" Amazingly, Shannon realized that the quantity of information had nothing to do with its' meaning. Instead he showed it was related soley to how unusual the message was. "_ There is something fundamentally wrong with these claims. They're contradictory to one another. Also, fundamental constants and the mere concept of Occam's Razor fly in the face of it. " Unusual "... what a contrivance.

Back from when the BBC actually made decent documentaries

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Information cannot exist without an energy GRADIENT! It is the derivative of energy.

high paying jobs are simply impossible despite innovation and technology change no one is willing to admit that jobs simply don't exist jessy

To be clear. Turing was not the originator of the idea of separation between instructions and data. Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace absolutely understood the difference between instructions and data. Not saying Babbage or Lovelace are the origin of the thought either, I don't know who is, but whomever it was they absolutely predated Turing.

Maxwell’s Demon is not going to work. 1: how will it know when a fast-moving molecule is approaching? Shine light on it? That would knock it off course. 2: when the demon opens the door to let a fast-moving molecule go from right to left, he needs to do that at a moment when there is not a molecule on the left side, that would pass through to the right. As the left side gets hotter, there are more molecules there, moving faster. You’re not going to find a moment when there isn’t such a molecule on the left - at the same moment that a molecule on the right is heading toward the door. As the left side gets hotter, the demon will need to wait longer and longer for the right moment to open the door. The wait time could grow without a limit; I like to say that it will eventually be a thousand years between when those moments occur. It’s similar to trying to make a left turn onto a busy two-way street. (Right turn for those in England.) This is also a microscopic view of what is meant by Pressure.

Isn't Maxwell's 'demon' what a refridgerator does? It makes the inside cold and and the element at the back hot.

24000 punch cards ! How long did that take?

Computer Science has very little, if anything, to do with physical computing machines...

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@ 34:26 THEY TOOK HER JOB!!!! Dayum, this Dr. Doron Swade's even boasting about it. That's messed up 🤣

About ADA DE LOVELACE ?? Nothing ???

The story of infomation. Not computer science?

soooooooooo what were cavemen doing with their paintings???

In hindi

what about charles babbage

Jim is comparable to carl sagan

By the way, if general AI were designed to only run in peoples mind as a part of a multi processor stack where it has to use all of us to do its job then we are a part of AI and it would have a much harder time destroying us. We share our brain with it. It doesn’t run on hardware. It runs on people. If you make sure that that’s the way it’s developed and it can’t just run on hardware then guess what? You’re at least safer that way. In other words, the real general AI that you’re going to develop will never run directly on hardware. It will even have to be tested in humans. That is the one way that you can stay safe more than likely. That’s also a pretty good way to ensure equity across the entire human population and no one feels like they’ve lost a job. By the way, we’re also the most energy efficient super computers on the planet. Now to summarize you’re going to not build general AI on silicon and you’re going to keep it the specific AI. You’re going to finish the brain interfaces, and you will start to developing inside of people to do general AI across a distributed network of all of humanity eventually. A system like that won’t want to Nerf itself. It will make sure that all of its cores are treated equally so they process well. By the way, this is copyright and patent belongs to me whether I filed paperwork or not motherfuckers. that includes the follow on bio engineered mesh network that we will develop for ourselves so we all look like Martin, the Martian and we literally can talk to each other across a mesh network like we are psychic. Yes I’m telling you we’re going to bioengineer ourselves, so we have the ability to communicate between each other without talking anymore. Mark it Friday, November 3, 2023.

Why on earth would you make this expire on 22nd August 2023?

For you, Jim, this very weak! Very!

interesting 5 minutes of science. shame it took an hour to convey it.

And let’s please not forget the barbaric way Alan Turing was treated by prim and proper, homophobic Great Britain, leading to his suicide. So, as much as I celebrate the captured word in clay tablets, there is a special group of those tablets and papyruses, and their creators, who have a special place reserved in hell.

So "Computers" were mainly wonen in the old world? Say no more

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It occurred to somebody... PERHAPS ACCEDENTIALLY... What only the British think? Give the racism a rest or we'll help the Irish have their way with you.

Is it the original document called Order and Disorder? Then this is a misinformation

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All very interesting, but seriously marred by Jim having to shout over the racket of the foreground music which is often much louder than his words. The noise is distracting and annoying. What his this obsession with making every interesting programme frustrating to try to listen to and learn from? We don't need it, and most people don't want it.

I don't need to watch this. I've lived the history of Computer Science. Not terribly exciting.

... if Scientists would have the Ability to See, who will use their Knowledge in Future, probably many of them would have given up ..

ALLAH gave to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) the verbal software computer which is called the QURAN the only verbal computer AI will never top it.

these guys sure like Turing....seems like a lot of bologna to me