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Lex Fridman· Feb 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Need 60,000 Digits, You Have Not Found IntelligenceGuest Vladimir Vapnik · Host Lex FridmanVladimir Vapnik tells Lex Fridman that intelligence is the art of shrinking a sea of functions with a few good predicates — and that MNIST, solved with sixty examples per class, is the test.
7:45ENLex Fridman· Feb 10, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersJim Keller on Recipes, Understanding and RedesignGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanWhy an efficient procedure can become a constraint, and when computer architects may need to rethink the problem.
26:02ENLex Fridman· Feb 9, 2020PodcastMoore’s Law Is Not Dead—It Is a Cascade of S-CurvesHost Lex FridmanJim Keller explains why transistor scaling keeps outrunning its obituary, and how exponential hardware changes the mathematics AI can attempt.
1:34:44ENLex Fridman· Feb 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMoore's Law Has Been About to Die for Forty YearsGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanChip architect Jim Keller tells Lex Fridman why a cascade of diminishing-return curves still looks exponential, why you rewrite the CPU every five years, and why driving a car is not a super-hard problem.
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Jane Street· Jan 31, 2020Steve Lee on PowerShell 7: Compatibility, New Features and the RoadmapSteve Lee · MicrosoftA historical look at the move from Windows PowerShell to cross-platform PowerShell, including demonstrations of the version 7 preview and its compatibility trade-offs.
1:38:49ENLex Fridman· Jan 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersEven a simulation would still be realGuest David Chalmers · Host Lex FridmanDavid Chalmers tells Lex Fridman why a simulated world would still count as reality, and why the hard problem of consciousness still will not go away.
1:30:52ENLex Fridman· Jan 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersCristos Goodrow: There Is No YouTube Algorithm, Only People Moving Through VideoGuest Cristos Goodrow · Host Lex FridmanYouTube’s head of search and discovery tells Lex Fridman why collaborative filtering learned language on its own, why watch time is not satisfaction, and why nobody can predict a viral hit.
1:03:12ENLex Fridman· Jan 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersPaul Krugman: America's Cruelty Is a Choice, Not a Law of TechnologyGuest Paul Krugman · Host Lex FridmanThe Nobel economist tells Lex Fridman why productivity data undercut the robot-job panic, why markets fail in health care, and why universal programs beat a premature basic income.
1:13:51ENLex Fridman· Jan 19, 2020PodcastAnswering Questions Without Seeing the Data: Andrew Trask on the Privacy-Preserving AI StackHost Lex FridmanA tour of remote execution, differential privacy, secure multiparty computation, and the societal consequences of making private data usable.
1:39:57ENLex Fridman· Jan 17, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersPeople Say They Want Perfect Robots. They Trust the Ones That Push BackGuest Ayanna Howard · Host Lex FridmanAyanna Howard on human-robot interaction, the ethics of safety-critical code, and why a little imperfection is what actually earns trust.
1:18:41ENLex Fridman· Jan 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe SS Soldier Who Hugged a Jewish Boy, and the Systems That Still Fool UsGuest Daniel Kahneman · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Kahneman on System 1, deep learning that does not know what it is saying, and why a machine that must call a human is almost as hard as a machine that never needs one.
1:02:45ENLex Fridman· Jan 7, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAliens Would Count. They Probably Wouldn't Write e^x.Guest Grant Sanderson · Host Lex FridmanGrant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown talks with Lex Fridman about notation, infinity, and why a visualization has to pick a single arrow.
20:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Staff Job That Became a Dictatorship: Stalin's Improbable Road to PowerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanStephen Kotkin traces how war, revolution, contingency, and a new administrative post let Stalin build a personal dictatorship inside the Bolshevik regime.
1:37:22ENLex Fridman· Jan 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLenin Wanted an Assistant. Stalin Built a DictatorshipGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanPrinceton historian Stephen Kotkin talks with Lex Fridman about Stalin’s rise, Putin’s popularity, and why checks on power are a feature, not a bug.
1:45:56ENLex Fridman· Dec 30, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersPoint eight is enough: Donald Knuth on algorithms, TeX, and a life in one chairGuest Donald Knuth · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman visits Donald Knuth at home for a conversation about the IBM 650, geek brains, literate programming, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, P versus NP, and a happiness budget of 80 percent.
1:52:40ENLex Fridman· Dec 28, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWithout Analogies, There Can Be No ConceptsGuest Melanie Mitchell · Host Lex FridmanMelanie Mitchell talks with Lex Fridman about why analogy sits at the core of thought, why scaled-up learning still fails at common sense, and why she thinks human-level AI is more than a century away.
1:35:00ENLex Fridman· Dec 25, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersNASA Once Spent 5 Percent of the Economy to Go 250,000 Miles. Mars Is a Hundred Times Farther.Guest Jim Gates · Host Lex FridmanTheorist S. James Gates Jr. talks with Lex Fridman about Mars budgets, supersymmetry, error-correcting codes hiding in equations, and why string theory is not yet a theory.
2:22ENLex Fridman· Dec 24, 2019PodcastLex Fridman Reads Charles Bukowski’s “Nirvana”A reading of a poem about a fleeting moment during a bus journey.
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3Blue1Brown· Dec 22, 2019Bayes’ Theorem and the Geometry of Updating BeliefsUse counts and areas to understand how evidence changes probability.
1:18:35ENLex Fridman· Dec 21, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe last job Sebastian Thrun wants is one he is already good atGuest Sebastian Thrun · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the roboticist behind Stanley, Google’s self-driving car, Udacity, and Kitty Hawk about learning, safety, and why traffic is a choice.
3:18ENLex Fridman· Dec 19, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersMichael Stevens Speculates About Consciousness, Memory and TimeGuest Michael Stevens · Host Lex FridmanA 2019 discussion that explicitly distinguishes conjecture from expertise.
2:25ENLex Fridman· Dec 18, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersMichael Stevens on Perception, Reality and Everyday EthicsGuest Michael Stevens · Host Lex FridmanA Vsauce conversation explores what can be known and how people act.
58:33ENLex Fridman· Dec 17, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersScience cannot prove that the Earth is not flatGuest Michael Stevens · Host Lex FridmanVsauce creator Michael Stevens tells Lex Fridman why unfalsifiable ghosts, time-capsule states, and a YouTube recommendation mirror all belong in the same argument about curiosity.
1:45:58ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersNine of ten colleagues said far-field speech was impossibleGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, Amazon’s vice president and head scientist for Alexa, talks with Lex Fridman about conversational AI, the Alexa Prize, trust, and why a 20-minute chat is still years away.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,484