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Sean Carroll Wants the Equations Left In
The physicist and philosopher has spent his career refusing the false choice between rigor and wonder. His trick is simple to describe and hard to copy: keep the equations, invite everyone in, and let the questions stay difficult.
Zohar Bronfman
Zohar Bronfman is the co-founder and CEO of Pecan AI, a predictive analytics company he launched two months after finishing not one but two PhDs at Tel Aviv University - one in computational cognitive neuroscience, another in the history and philosophy of science. He and his co-founder built Pecan's first prototype for a data-science competition they missed the deadline for, then turned it into a low-code platform that lets business teams build predictive models without hiring data scientists. Pecan has raised roughly $127 million from Insight Partners, GV, and Dell, and its work now touches revenue at Fortune 500 companies. Bronfman is a vocal skeptic of AI hype, arguing that predictive AI and generative AI are more useful married than either is alone.