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Jane Street· Jun 23, 2020Crossing the River: A Toy Boat Puzzle and a Snow-Cone SolutionSawyer · Jane StreetA toy boat drifts downstream in a steady current. Sawyer poses a navigation puzzle and solves the previous episode’s cone-and-hemisphere problem.
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Lex Fridman· Jun 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Man Who Named AGI Wants Superintelligence Raised on CompassionGuest Ben Goertzel · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ben Goertzel for four hours about OpenCog, Sophia, SingularityNET, and why a bigger neural net is not a mind.
1:27:29ENLex Fridman· Jun 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersResistance Is How You Know the Work MattersGuest Steven Pressfield · Host Lex FridmanSteven Pressfield tells Lex Fridman why he writes about Spartans and Alexander — and why the battle that counts is the one against his own ego.
3:35ENJane Street· Jun 19, 2020Snow Cones and Spheres: A Volume Solution and a New Geometry PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer derives the height of a cone with the same volume as a hemisphere, then asks how to reshape the ice with minimal movement.
5:39ENJane Street· Jun 16, 2020A Snow Cone Geometry Puzzle and a Piggy Bank ProbabilitySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a cone-design challenge and solves a conditional probability problem in two ways.
3:00:18ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersOnly a Simulation Can Be ConsciousGuest Joscha Bach · Host Lex FridmanJoscha Bach tells Lex Fridman why a neuron cannot feel anything, why existence is the default, and why this dying world is still the best level of the game.
7:03ENJane Street· Jun 12, 2020Grandma’s Secret College Fund: A Bayes’ Theorem PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetA random $20 bill reveals information about a hidden deposit. Sawyer poses the new puzzle and solves a DMV probability problem three ways.
7:23ENJane Street· Jun 9, 2020Bayes' Theorem and a Driver's Test Probability PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer derives Bayes' theorem, poses a question about test-takers who studied, and solves an earlier card-game probability puzzle.
8:03ENJane Street· Jun 6, 2020Real Numbers: A Taxi Challenge and Two Ways to Calculate a Sleep ProbabilitySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a consecutive-taxi puzzle and solves a five-night dog-sitting problem with a probability table and a counting argument.
6:50ENJane Street· Jun 6, 2020The Perils of Dogsitting: A Probability Warm-UpSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a five-night dogsitting puzzle and reviews independence, overlapping events and complements with coins and dice.
7:15ENJane Street· Jun 6, 2020A Balanced Game of War and the Probability of Three TaxisSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces conditional probability through a card-game challenge, then solves an earlier six-car puzzle in two ways.
1:12:36ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersKate Darling on Why We Name the Roomba and Mourn the Bomb RobotGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanAn MIT Media Lab researcher argues that our feelings about machines track the history of animal domestication — and that design can steer that instinct for better or worse.
1:29:02ENLex Fridman· May 28, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou Are Your Own Existence ProofGuest Karl Friston · Host Lex FridmanKarl Friston walks Lex Fridman from brain imaging to the free energy principle, arguing that anything which keeps a boundary looks as if it is doing Bayesian inference.
1:22:51ENLex Fridman· May 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersDensity, Not Demos: Sertac Karaman on Robots That Fly and DriveGuest Sertac Karaman · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT roboticist and Optimus Ride co-founder on why sharing space with people is harder than building the machine, and why flying at transportation scale is still the tougher problem.
1:10:16ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMost People See the Black Dress. Stephen Schwarzman Sees the White Lint.Guest Stephen Schwarzman · Host Lex FridmanThe Blackstone co-founder on pattern recognition, why entrepreneurship is a team sport, and why the United States cannot afford to sleepwalk through AI.
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3Blue1Brown· May 14, 2020How DP-3T Uses Bluetooth for Decentralized Contact TracingA 2020 explanation adapted from Nicky Case illustrates how phones can exchange identifiers and check exposure alerts locally.
2:12:36ENLex Fridman· May 12, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersAttacks Climb the Stack Until They Land on PeopleGuest Dawn Song · Host Lex FridmanDawn Song tells Lex Fridman why the next security crisis is human, how a sticker can rewrite a stop sign, and why data still has no property right.
1:14:54EN3Blue1Brown· May 8, 2020What Makes the Natural Logarithm Natural?Explore prime density, exponential growth, harmonic sums and the appearance of ln 2.
1:37:28ENLex Fridman· May 8, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWe Are Still Massively Underestimating Deep LearningGuest Ilya Sutskever · Host Lex FridmanIlya Sutskever tells Lex Fridman why 2012 was about conviction, why bigger models can get worse before they get better, and what he would do with an AGI.
1:12:03ENLex Fridman· May 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMice Don't Get Alzheimer's: Daphne Koller on Disease in a DishGuest Daphne Koller · Host Lex FridmanThe Coursera co-founder and insitro CEO on why most diseases are not one disease, how to turn cells into data, and why overconfident neural nets can kill.
1:03:07EN3Blue1Brown· May 1, 2020Imaginary Interest Rates, Complex Numbers and SpringsGrant Sanderson · 3Blue1BrownA Lockdown Math lesson connects ordinary compound interest to circular motion and an oscillating spring.
1:38:20ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersParticle physics is badly named: Harry Cliff on fields, the Higgs, and a collider with no bossGuest Harry Cliff · Host Lex FridmanA Cambridge physicist walks Lex Fridman through the Large Hadron Collider, the Standard Model, and why the vacuum is not empty.
51:14ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersTrust, Then Verify: How Square Let 99 Percent of Merchants InGuest Jack Dorsey · Host Lex FridmanJack Dorsey tells Lex Fridman why Square is an access company, why the internet needs a native currency, and why self-awareness is being outsourced to algorithms.
2:09:02ENLex Fridman· Apr 22, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred-Nanometer Machine That Is Not Quite AliveGuest Dmitry Korkin · Host Lex FridmanDmitry Korkin walks through the structural genomics of SARS-CoV-2, from spike-ACE2 docking to drug-binding sites, vaccines, and cruise-ship simulations, recorded in the first spring of the pandemic.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,483