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Lex Fridman· Jul 31, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersWe Are the Descendants of the First Digital ComputerGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanMIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis tells Lex Fridman why life is digital, why any two humans are 99.9 percent identical, and what evolutionary signatures reveal inside SARS-CoV-2.
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All-In Podcast· Jul 31, 2020Podcast · 4 speakersAll-In E6: Antitrust, Startup Acquisitions and Platform SpeechHost Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergA July 2020 debate on Big Tech hearings, marketplace power and the presidential election.
2:01:15ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersNobody Died from the Fukushima ReactorsGuest Ian Hutchinson · Host Lex FridmanMIT plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson on fusion, a hundredfold carbon cut, scientism, and why faith is more than believing unproven claims.
2:07:32ENLex Fridman· Jul 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersRichard Karp: Either All These Problems Are Easy, or None of Them AreGuest Richard Karp · Host Lex FridmanThe Turing Award winner walks Lex Fridman from a geometry proof that stopped him at 13 through NP-completeness, randomized algorithms, and why no program yet outthinks a six-month-old.
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Jane Street· Jul 21, 2020Five Ways to Calculate the Wait for a Successful ShotSawyer · Jane StreetA 20% success rate leads to an expected wait of five attempts—but two consecutive successes take 30. Explore the reasoning through series, recursion and a long-run argument.
1:41:37ENLex Fridman· Jul 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Fallacy of the Successful First Step: Jitendra Malik on Why Seeing Still Isn't SolvedGuest Jitendra Malik · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik tells Lex Fridman why computer vision keeps underestimating itself, why full self-driving still needs cognition, and why vision is the parent of language.
3:40ENLex Fridman· Jul 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBrian Kernighan on JavaScript and Software DependenciesGuest Brian Kernighan · Host Lex FridmanA 2020 conversation about language evolution and package complexity.
1:43:10ENLex Fridman· Jul 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersKen Thompson's Wife Left for Three Weeks. He Wrote Unix.Guest Brian Kernighan · Host Lex FridmanBrian Kernighan walks Lex Fridman through Bell Labs, C, AWK, AMPL, and a lifetime of tools that millions of people still run — including all of his mistakes.
10:32ENJane Street· Jul 17, 2020Real Numbers: Expected Time Between Exams and a Half-Court Shot ChallengeSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves an exam-scheduling problem in several ways, then asks how many basketball attempts it takes to make one shot or two in a row.
1:37:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Robot That Brought the Beer Was Being TeleoperatedGuest Sergey Levine · Host Lex FridmanSergey Levine tells Lex Fridman why hardware is almost closed, why common sense has to be lived, and why offline reinforcement learning is the missing on-ramp from logs to robots that keep getting better.
6:04ENJane Street· Jul 14, 2020Finals Week and the Expected Number of Snowboards UsedSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a new exam-scheduling puzzle and uses indicator variables in two ways to solve the previous snowboard problem.
6:16ENJane Street· Jul 10, 2020Indicator Variables: Marching Bands and SnowboardsSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer uses linearity of expectation to count in-step rows, then poses a six-snowboard challenge.
1:09:14ENLex Fridman· Jul 8, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSuffering Is a State You'd Rather Not Be In — Peter Singer on Animals, Robots, and UsGuest Peter Singer · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the Princeton bioethicist defines suffering, extends it from factory farms to possible machine minds, and still puts extreme poverty first.
9:40ENJane Street· Jul 7, 2020Real Numbers: A Marching Band Challenge, Expected Damage, and Bayes’ RuleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a marching-band expected-value puzzle and uses linearity and Bayesian updating to solve a monster-attack problem.
10:08ENJane Street· Jul 3, 2020Expected Damage and a Golden-Ratio Window PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces expected value with an unknown video-game monster, then uses geometry to solve a painting-through-a-window problem.
2:00:32ENLex Fridman· Jul 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSlow Synapses Grow Fast Learners — Warmth Is the Harder ProblemGuest Matt Botvinick · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind neuroscience director Matt Botvinick tells Lex Fridman how prefrontal cortex, meta-reinforcement learning, and dopamine research meet the human question of what a better life with AI would actually look like.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
7:55ENJane Street· Jun 30, 2020The Art Thief’s Window and a Toy Boat’s Return JourneySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a geometric window puzzle and solves the previous episode’s river-crossing problem in two ways.
1:02:14ENLex Fridman· Jun 30, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe 28-year wait: Robert Langer on rejection, polymers, and a thousand studentsGuest Robert Langer · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT bioengineer talks with Lex Fridman about drug delivery, tissue engineering, patents, and the long path from a Folkman hypothesis to Avastin.
1:49:51ENLex Fridman· Jun 27, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Idea Once Called a Devolution Now Powers Almost Every New ChipGuest David Patterson · Host Lex FridmanTuring Award winner David Patterson talks with Lex Fridman about RISC, RAID, Moore's Law, open hardware, and why chips without a software stack die.
5:38ENJane Street· Jun 26, 2020Wavey’s Return: Solving a River-Crossing PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves the first toy-boat crossing with a 5:3 speed ratio, then asks how the answer changes when the return journey starts 60 meters downstream.
6:37ENJane 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.
4:08:58ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,483