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Lex Fridman· Oct 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Perfect Rapid Test Would Fail the FDA. Michael Mina Explains Why That Is the PointGuest Michael Mina · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard immunologist tells Lex Fridman that paper-strip antigen tests answer the only public-health question that matters—are you infectious right now—and that one presidential sentence could unlock them.
3:38:43ENLex Fridman· Oct 26, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersConsciousness Is a Step Down From IntelligenceGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram tells Lex Fridman how simple programs, a discrete fabric of space, and a computationally bounded observer together explain complexity, physics, and why the universe exists.
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3Blue1Brown· Oct 23, 2021The 2021 Summer of Math Exposition: Selected Works and Lessons3Blue1Brown highlights mathematical explainers, from light in a mug to Bézier curves and Pick’s theorem.
1:11:03ENLex Fridman· Oct 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersCarl Hart’s case that addiction lives outside the moleculeGuest Carl Hart · Host Lex FridmanThe Columbia psychologist tells Lex Fridman that most drug effects are positive, that alcohol withdrawal is deadlier than heroin’s, and that the war on drugs pays a long list of people to keep a scapegoat in place.
1:45:45ENLex Fridman· Oct 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Blink of Ordered Particles: Brian Greene on Entropy, Meaning, and DeathGuest Brian Greene · Host Lex FridmanThe Columbia physicist talks with Lex Fridman about heat death, consciousness, string theory, the Big Bang, aliens, Mars, and the kind of freedom that survives without free will.
2:33:37ENLex Fridman· Oct 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersNumber Go Up Hides Freedom Go Up: Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin, Dictators, and Human RightsGuest Alex Gladstein · Host Lex FridmanThe Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategist argues that money was missing from the human-rights conversation, and that Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that turns greed into a tool for individual sovereignty.
4:06:06ENLex Fridman· Oct 14, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersShe Picked Up a Perfectly Laced Boot and Said They Could Reuse ItGuest Kelsi Sheren · Host Lex FridmanKelsi Sheren was a 19-year-old, 103-pound Canadian artillery gunner on an M777 howitzer in Afghanistan; she came home with the light switch off and spent a decade finding a way back.
26:05EN3Blue1Brown· Oct 12, 2021Newton’s Method and the Fractal Boundaries Between RootsAn everyday numerical algorithm produces unexpectedly intricate patterns when starting guesses are plotted in the complex plane.
2:35:22ENLex Fridman· Oct 10, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Goodness Paradox: How Humans Became Both Unusually Kind and Unusually LethalGuest Richard Wrangham · Host Lex FridmanRichard Wrangham tells Lex Fridman how fire, a coup against alpha males, and a split between two kinds of aggression made Homo sapiens.
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Jane Street· Oct 6, 2021Ty Overby on Bonsai and Building Functional User InterfacesYaron Minsky, Ty Overby · Jane StreetWhy Jane Street built a composable OCaml UI framework, and what its design reveals about incremental computation, browsers, and visual programming.
1:26:20ENLex Fridman· Oct 5, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersRZA: You Can Be Wisdom. You Cannot Raise the Dead.Guest RZA · Host Lex FridmanThe Wu-Tang Clan architect talks with Lex Fridman about his mother's death, kung fu, chess, Allah, and why confusion is a gift.
2:52:58ENLex Fridman· Sep 30, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYou Are Not a Great Writer Until You Write the BookGuest Sean Kelly · Host Lex FridmanHarvard philosopher Sean Kelly talks with Lex Fridman about existentialism, nihilism, and how to live when nothing outside us grounds the self.
1:30:40ENLex Fridman· Sep 27, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersI'm Giving You This Feedback Because I Believe in YouGuest Jo Boaler · Host Lex FridmanStanford mathematician Jo Boaler on visual math, why struggle only works if you think you can get there, and how a 90-minute class raised classroom engagement 68 percent.
2:56:42ENLex Fridman· Sep 26, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersSilicon Does Not Emit LightGuest Jeffrey Shainline · Host Lex FridmanNIST physicist Jeffrey Shainline on why a brain-like computer should calculate in superconducting electronics and talk with single photons.
3:05:24ENLex Fridman· Sep 22, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersTravis Oliphant wrote NumPy in an empty semester — and still wants open source to payGuest Travis Oliphant · Host Lex FridmanThe creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda tells Lex Fridman how array thinking, a priced book, and the packaging wars shaped scientific Python.
3:42:43ENLex Fridman· Sep 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHe Fought for Eight Minutes and Didn't Get a Single VoteGuest Travis Stevens · Host 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.
2:31:57ENLex Fridman· Sep 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJay McClelland on How Thought Emerges From Neural NetworksGuest Jay McClelland · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford cognitive scientist talks with Lex Fridman about connectionism, backpropagation, David Rumelhart, and why intuition discovers what logic later proves.
2:52:56ENLex Fridman· Sep 15, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersDouglas Lenat's 37-Year Bet That Common Sense Can Be Written DownGuest Douglas Lenat · Host Lex FridmanSince 1984, Cyc has been encoding the unstated rules of the world so machines can reason instead of merely pattern-match.
2:44:08ENLex Fridman· Sep 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersForty Feet Behind: A New York Firefighter's 9/11Guest Niels Jorgensen · Host 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.
2:21:27ENLex Fridman· Sep 9, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe IBM Manual Was So Bad He Became a Computer ScientistGuest Donald Knuth · Host 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.
1:52:29ENLex Fridman· Sep 6, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Valuable Moment in VR Is Taking Off the HeadsetGuest Jaron Lanier · Host 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.
2:24:52ENLex Fridman· Sep 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJudge a robot by the environment it forces to change, not by the demoGuest Rodney Brooks · Host 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.
1:00:58ENJane Street· Sep 1, 2021James 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.
3:28:40ENLex Fridman· Sep 1, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThere Are More Viruses in a Liter of Seawater Than People on EarthGuest Vincent Racaniello · Host 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,480