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Lex Fridman· Jul 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
2:46:40ENLex Fridman· Dec 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Tools That Fit in a Head Were Built by People Who Fit in a VanGuest Peter Wang · Host Lex FridmanAnaconda's Peter Wang talks with Lex Fridman about Python, cybernetic systems, and why sharing software creates value that scarcity economics still cannot price.
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.
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.
2:31:59ENLex Fridman· Mar 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBitcoin Is an Island of Sturdiness: Nic Carter on Money That Cannot Be TunedGuest Nic Carter · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Castle Island Ventures partner Nic Carter about Bitcoin’s embedded values, the block size war, layered scaling, and why Satoshi’s exit still matters.
3:03:38ENLex Fridman· Feb 12, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Day Language That Still Runs the WebGuest Brendan Eich · Host Lex FridmanBrendan Eich tells Lex Fridman how JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave were built from rushed bets, open-source escape pods, and accidental tracking.
1:49:56ENLex Fridman· Feb 7, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA 21-Year-Old at a Party Called GameStop. He Was Right.Guest Richard Craib · Host Lex FridmanNumerai founder Richard Craib talks with Lex Fridman about WallStreetBets, crowdsourced machine learning, and why finance is a machine for pulling the future into the present.
2:46:57ENLex Fridman· Oct 18, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersProgramming Languages Are Bicycles for the MindGuest Chris Lattner · Host Lex FridmanChris Lattner talks with Lex Fridman about Swift, LLVM, RISC-V, and why the next leap in computing is as much a language problem as a silicon one.
1:51:01ENLex Fridman· Sep 24, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersJames Gosling Built Java to Make Pointer Bugs Impossible. Chrome Still Has Them.Guest James Gosling · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2020 conversation with Lex Fridman, Java’s designer traces a line from a neglected PDP-8 to Emacs, the JVM, and a thirty-year war on memory errors.
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.
2:48:46ENLex 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1:35:04ENLex Fridman· Mar 16, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersSatoshi Vanished. Vitalik Stayed Behind to Finish the Other Half.Guest Vitalik Buterin · Host Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin tells Lex Fridman what money actually is, what Satoshi invented, and why Ethereum is trying to become more than a points game.
49:53ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGilbert Strang still teaches with thick chalk and four subspacesGuest Gilbert Strang · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT linear-algebra legend talks with Lex Fridman about OpenCourseWare, singular values, neural nets as a million folds, and why calculus hogged the undergraduate timetable.
1:47:13ENLex Fridman· Nov 7, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersWhen You Hit the Brakes, a Computer Is in the WayGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup on why C++ still sits between the pedal and the pads, and why an abstraction that costs extra has no place in the language.
1:59:37ENLex Fridman· Aug 5, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersLane Centering Is the Only Self-Driving Feature That Already HelpsGuest George Hotz · Host Lex Fridmancomma.ai founder George Hotz tells Lex Fridman why staying in the lane beats Level 5 promises, and why a robotaxi stack still has no network effect.
1:10:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 3, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Hadoop Lesson That Made Google Give TensorFlow AwayGuest Rajat Monga · Host Lex FridmanIn November 2015, Google put its core internal machine-learning system on GitHub. Rajat Monga explains why a company of that size would hand over the hard-to-copy part.
1:13:06ENLex Fridman· May 13, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe Compiler That Got Apple, Google, and Intel to Share a CodebaseGuest Chris Lattner · Host Lex FridmanChris Lattner walks through LLVM, Clang, Swift, TPU numeric formats, and why compiler work is mostly software engineering.
1:20:09ENLex Fridman· Nov 29, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersStack Overflow Was Never Designed for BeginnersGuest Jeff Atwood · Host Lex FridmanOn Stack Overflow’s tenth birthday, Jeff Atwood talks with Lex Fridman about puzzles, leadership, Discourse, and why a software team’s health is how fast it can change one word.
1:26:44ENLex Fridman· Nov 22, 2018Podcast · 2 speakersHe raised Python like a child, then set it freeGuest Guido van Rossum · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2018 conversation with Lex Fridman, Guido van Rossum traces Python from electronics kits and Conway's Game of Life to the Thursday morning he resigned as benevolent dictator for life.Load moreShowing 24 of 54