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2:56:42ENSilicon Does Not Emit LightGast: Jeffrey Shainline · Moderation: Lex FridmanNIST physicist Jeffrey Shainline on why a brain-like computer should calculate in superconducting electronics and talk with single photons.
3:05:24ENTravis Oliphant wrote NumPy in an empty semester — and still wants open source to payGast: Travis Oliphant · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda tells Lex Fridman how array thinking, a priced book, and the packaging wars shaped scientific Python.
3:42:43ENHe Fought for Eight Minutes and Didn't Get a Single VoteGast: Travis Stevens · Moderation: Lex FridmanTravis Stevens on judo, Olympic heartbreak, weight cutting as engineering, and the silver medal that arrived after he stopped treating winning as a goal.
2:31:57ENJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksGast: Jay McClelland · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
2:52:56ENDouglas Lenat's 37-Year Bet That Common Sense Can Be Written DownGast: Douglas Lenat · Moderation: Lex FridmanSince 1984, Cyc has been encoding the unstated rules of the world so machines can reason instead of merely pattern-match.
2:44:08ENForty Feet Behind: A New York Firefighter's 9/11Gast: Niels Jorgensen · Moderation: Lex FridmanNiels Jorgensen, an FDNY veteran at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, tells Lex Fridman who did not come home, what the dust did to the living, and why September 12 still matters.
2:21:27ENThe IBM Manual Was So Bad He Became a Computer ScientistGast: Donald Knuth · Moderation: Lex FridmanDonald Knuth talks with Lex Fridman about first programs on an IBM 650, literate programming, the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, and the hardest theorem he ever proved.
1:52:29ENThe Most Valuable Moment in VR Is Taking Off the HeadsetGast: Jaron Lanier · Moderation: Lex FridmanJaron Lanier on why virtual reality's gift is a refreshed real world, why he refuses to call algorithms creatures, and how data dignity could replace the lizard-brain economy of social media.
2:24:52ENJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoGast: Rodney Brooks · Moderation: Lex FridmanRodney Brooks tells Lex Fridman why faces are promises, why computation is an overworked metaphor, and why robot companies die on price, expectation, and habit.
1:00:58ENJames Somers on Technical Writing, Software and RevisionYaron Minsky, James Somers · Jane StreetJane Street’s writer-in-residence discusses documentation as shared knowledge, the tools that keep it useful, and the craft of writing for real readers.
3:28:40ENThere Are More Viruses in a Liter of Seawater Than People on EarthGast: Vincent Racaniello · Moderation: Lex FridmanColumbia virologist Vincent Racaniello talks Lex Fridman through ocean-scale particle counts, mRNA vaccines, and why speaking with false certainty does more damage than a virus.
2:51:33ENThe Self Is a GPT Prompt: Wojciech Zaremba on Consciousness, Codex, and Fermi's SilenceGast: Wojciech Zaremba · Moderation: Lex FridmanOpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba tells Lex Fridman he thinks we might be alone in the universe — and that GPT-3, Codex, and a one-handed robot already hint at how intelligence is built.
1:36:06ENAfghanistan, Gig Work and Robots: An All-In Debate From 2021Moderation: Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergThe hosts debate the US withdrawal, Chinese technology policy, California gig work and early robotics plans in their August 2021 context.
1:52:17ENOld Theories Rarely Die of Contradiction. They Stop Making New Things.Gast: Jed Buchwald · Moderation: Lex FridmanCaltech historian Jed Buchwald talks with Lex Fridman about Kuhn, Newton, and why scientific change is a victory of productivity more than of proof.
2:22:55ENLIGO measures a thousandth of a proton — then a thousand physicists stayed quiet for a monthGast: Barry Barish · Moderation: Lex FridmanNobel laureate Barry Barish tells Lex Fridman how gravitational waves were predicted, doubted, and finally heard with the most precise machine ever built.
3:12:21ENThe Ape's Brain Runs a Dream: Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Freedom, and MeaningGast: Joscha Bach · Moderation: Lex FridmanA long conversation about the self as a control model, the dream world generated by the brain, free will, language models, evil, love, and how to live without a fixed self.
1:52:28ENIf You Die Before You Die: Brian Muraresku's Secret History of PsychedelicsGast: Brian Muraresku · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe author of The Immortality Key tells Lex Fridman why ancient wine was a drug, why Eleusis mattered more than democracy, and why mystics keep running toward death.
2:48:18ENHumans are the only species that skip sleep on purposeGast: Matt Walker · Moderation: Lex FridmanBerkeley sleep scientist Matt Walker talks with Lex Fridman about why we sleep, what caffeine and dreams actually do, and whether passion can justify the health cost of staying up.
2:54:52ENThe Marvelous Proof Still Lives in the MarginModeration: Lex FridmanLuís and João Batalha, the brothers behind Fermat's Library, talk with Lex Fridman about hidden backstories, a publishing system that buys its own work twice, and how to sit with a paper until it finally clicks.
2:18:29ENYour Cortex Is 150,000 Brains Voting on a Coffee CupGast: Jeff Hawkins · Moderation: Lex FridmanJeff Hawkins tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is learning a model of the world, the neocortex is tens of thousands of independent maps that vote, and the fastest path to machine intelligence is reverse-engineering that sheet.
2:42:57ENThe Thousand-Pound Day Was Easy. The Years Before It Were Not.Gast: Chris Duffin · Moderation: Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with strength athlete and engineer Chris Duffin about squatting and deadlifting 1,000 pounds for reps, stacking the torso like a pressure vessel, and a childhood spent handling live rattlesnakes.
2:30:30ENThe Fallacy of the Successful First StepGast: Ishan Misra · Moderation: Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik explains why computer vision still looks easy, why fully autonomous driving is not near, and what children know that today's networks do not.
3:01:47ENA hundred miles is a lifetime compressed into one dayGast: Zach Bitter · Moderation: Lex FridmanZach Bitter talks with Lex Fridman about the 100-mile mind, quitting, aerobic training, fat-adapted fueling, and a run across America.
2:13:21ENThe Fourth Deduction Often Turns Out to Be the First PrincipleGast: Cumrun Vafa · Moderation: Lex FridmanHarvard string theorist Cumrun Vafa on why physicists distrust deduction, how a graviton fell out of a formula nobody wrote for gravity, and what extra dimensions are actually for.
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