{"id":12170,"date":"2019-07-08T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12170"},"modified":"2019-07-14T19:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T19:39:31","slug":"2019-07-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2019-07-14\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Know What We Know: Math and Computation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Garret<\/strong><\/h3>\n

11 a.m., July 14, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on math and computation.<\/p>\n

Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. He was a co-founder and CTO of Virgin Charter, and an early hire at Google. He was previously a rocket scientist. He also made a feature-length documentary about homelessness (www.graceofgodmovie.com<\/a>). His blog can be found at blog.rongarret.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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