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Lex Fridman· Nov 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersFour Joints, Eighty Thousand Pounds: Boris Sofman on Cozmo and WaymoGuest Boris Sofman · Host Lex FridmanAnki's co-founder on saturating a few channels of expression, why a beloved robot company still died, and how the same constraint mindset now runs Waymo's trucks.
2:39:51ENLex Fridman· Nov 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersChemical Rockets Are an Accident of HistoryGuest Neal Stephenson · Host Lex FridmanNeal Stephenson talks with Lex Fridman about WWII’s leftover launchers, why the stars need a religion, AR baby goats, and why fun is a better goal than greatness.
2:41:13ENLex Fridman· Nov 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Minefield Used to Be the Point: Niall Ferguson on Universities, Money, and 1914Guest Niall Ferguson · Host Lex FridmanThe historian tells Lex Fridman why he is founding a university in Austin, why money is a technology of trust, and which cabinet decision turned a European war into the twentieth century.
1:26:53ENLex Fridman· Nov 5, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersFrancis Collins Cannot Exclude a Lab LeakGuest Francis Collins · Host Lex FridmanThe outgoing NIH director talks with Lex Fridman about COVID origins, gain-of-function research, Anthony Fauci, vaccines, and why scientific certainty is the wrong pose.
3:12:17ENLex Fridman· Nov 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYou Better Already Have Everything You Ever WantedGuest Steve Viscelli · Host Lex FridmanA former long-haul driver turned Penn sociologist walks Lex Fridman through how trucking fell from a golden-age trade to a last-resort job, and the six ways robots might finish the work.
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Jane Street· Nov 3, 2021Anil Madhavapeddy on MirageOS and the Evolution of Operating SystemsYaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy · Jane StreetFrom Xen and unikernels to OCaml's multicore research, a systems researcher explains how changing abstractions reshape infrastructure.
2:23:08ENLex Fridman· Oct 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHate Losing More Than You Love Winning: Jimmy Pedro on Forging Judo ChampionsGuest Jimmy Pedro · Host Lex FridmanThe four-time Olympian and coach of Kayla Harrison and Travis Stevens on uchi mata, visualization, and why American judo loses its teenagers at thirteen.
1:46:47ENLex 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.
1:00:04ENJane 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,481