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Lex Fridman· Sep 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLoneliness Has No Clinic. Eugenia Kuyda Built an AI Friend AnywayGuest Eugenia Kuyda · Host Lex FridmanThe Replika co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about grief, conversation, and why memory—not a clever reply—is the real limit of AI companionship.
2:34:20ENLex Fridman· Aug 30, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIntelligence Is How Efficiently You Acquire Skills You Were Not Prepared ForGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet tells Lex Fridman why skill is not intelligence, why GPT-3 is still pattern matching, and why a grid puzzle called ARC still separates children from machines.
1:41:24ENLex Fridman· Aug 26, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersA child can lose half a brain. The rest will rewire around the jobGuest David Eagleman · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist David Eagleman tells Lex Fridman why the human brain is not hardware running software, but a livewired system that never stops physically reshaping itself.
2:08:26ENLex Fridman· Aug 23, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSatisfying Lectures Don't Stick: Grant Sanderson on Feynman, Fear, and Hitting PublishGuest Grant Sanderson · Host Lex FridmanThe 3Blue1Brown creator talks with Lex Fridman about why the nicest explanations can fail, why he envies Bell Labs, and why the experts most qualified to teach are the ones least willing to post.
2:56:24ENLex Fridman· Aug 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIt Is Knowing We Will Die That Makes Us HumanGuest Sheldon Solomon · Host Lex FridmanSheldon Solomon tells Lex Fridman how death anxiety, from an eight-year-old's stamp collection to 28-millisecond lab primes, quietly runs politics, religion, and everyday life.
1:41:35ENLex Fridman· Aug 16, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Smallest Lights: Sara Seager on Finding Life Beyond the SunGuest Sara Seager · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT planetary scientist talks with Lex Fridman about exoplanets, biosignature gases, a flower-shaped starshade, and the grief that sent her looking for another Earth.
2:10:06ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou Might Have to Understand the World to Understand the Letter AGuest Dileep George · Host Lex FridmanDileep George on recursive cortical networks, why a five-year-old can read any new CAPTCHA, and what the Wright brothers actually learned from birds.
2:48:46ENLex Fridman· Aug 9, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLet Physics Walk: Russ Tedrake on Underactuated Robots, Contact, and Barefoot CommutesGuest Russ Tedrake · Host Lex FridmanMIT’s Russ Tedrake talks with Lex Fridman about gravity-powered walkers, a dead trout that swims upstream, why contact still breaks classical control, and what the DARPA Robotics Challenge taught him about testing.
2:29:24ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,483