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3:08:07ENA Hundred Million Degrees, Less Energy Than Boiling WaterGuest Dennis Whyte · Host Lex FridmanMIT fusion director Dennis Whyte walks Lex Fridman from E=mc² and the strong force to why a star-hot plasma is, paradoxically, one of the safer ways to make electricity.
1:01:56ENMike Cessario on Building Liquid Death as a Beverage and Entertainment BrandGuest Mike Cessario · Host Harry StebbingsThe Liquid Death founder explains the thinking behind its irreverent marketing, the difficulty of beverage distribution and why he prizes creative ideas that people share.
1:02:45ENHila Qu on Hiring and Building a Product Growth PracticeGuest Hila Qu · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Acorns and GitLab growth leader explains channel experiments, hiring, data foundations and the first 90 days of a growth role.
3:02:52ENI Wanted to Ask God About Hunger and War. I Was Afraid He’d Ask Me the Same QuestionGuest Omar Suleiman · Host Lex FridmanImam Omar Suleiman talks with Lex Fridman about God, his mother’s long illness, why Islam treats suffering as a pixel on a larger canvas, and why seeking truth is worthless if you will not live by it.
53:10ENJeff Jordan on Building and Investing in Two-Sided MarketplacesGuest Jeff Jordan · Host Harry StebbingsThe former eBay and OpenTable executive explains supply, demand, acquisition economics and the role of a venture board member.
57:27ENJason Lemkin on SaaS Growth, Venture Funding and the 2023 ResetGuest Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsThe SaaStr founder discusses capital efficiency, marketing, private valuations and limited-partner expectations during an uncertain venture market.
1:03:29ZH → EnglishA Multimodal Paper Review: BLIP, CoCa, and BEiT-3From cleaning image–text data to unified pretraining, a guide to the architectures, objectives, and connections behind three vision–language models.
4:32ENJake on Accounting and Collaboration at Jane StreetJake · Jane StreetA member of the New York accounting team explains its role, the value of asking questions, and what candidates should expect in interviews.
3:10ENSergei on Quantitative Research and Collaboration at Jane StreetSergei · Jane StreetA Jane Street researcher describes long-running quantitative projects, working with traders and developers, and the value of continued learning.
2:17:46ENOne Great Video Beats a Hundred Mediocre OnesGuest MrBeast · Host Lex FridmanMrBeast tells Lex Fridman why evergreen hits outlast volume, why YouTube comments are a disgrace, and why an AI clone of himself would drain every video of meaning.
4:30ENHaley on Operations and Collaboration at Jane StreetHaley · Jane StreetA New York operations team member explains post-trade work, cross-team projects and the qualities she values in colleagues.
53:50ENHenry Schuck on ZoomInfo, Sales Slowdowns and the Discipline of GrowthGuest Henry Schuck · Host Harry StebbingsZoomInfo’s founder discusses bootstrapping, leadership, gratitude and how customer buying changed in the software market of early 2023.
53:16ENJason Fried on Independence, Leadership and Basecamp’s Workplace DecisionsGuest Jason Fried · Host Harry StebbingsThe 37signals co-founder discusses profitability, feedback and long partnerships, and reflects on a controversial workplace policy.
0:26ENThree Common Types of Product LeadersA short overview of platform, core product and specialist roles.
1:07:10ZH → EnglishInstructGPT: From Human Feedback to Language Model AlignmentA guide to InstructGPT’s training process, results, and limitations, from supervised fine-tuning and reward modeling to PPO.
2:40:18ENEvery Living Cell Runs the Same Translation MachineGuest Betül Kaçar · Host Lex FridmanAstrobiologist Betül Kaçar tells Lex Fridman how the tree of life is drawn backward, why nitrogen was fixed only once, and why the genetic code is an alphabet with room for typos.
0:52ENBen Chestnut on His Children Discovering Mailchimp’s SuccessGuest Ben ChestnutThe Mailchimp co-founder shares a family anecdote about wealth and an unexpected magazine cover.
3:42:34ENBhaskar Sunkara Will Not Call Forced Collectivization Anything but a DisasterGuest Bhaskar Sunkara · Host Lex FridmanThe Jacobin founder and Nation president tells Lex Fridman that democratic socialism starts by refusing the No True Scotsman defense of the twentieth century.
0:43ENBarry McCarthy on Peloton’s Brand and Pandemic GrowthGuest Barry McCarthyA 2022 CEO perspective on customer experience and scale.
49:49ENBarry McCarthy on Netflix, Spotify and Leading Peloton’s TurnaroundGuest Barry McCarthy · Host Harry StebbingsThe then Peloton CEO reflects on subscription economics, decision ownership and the emotional demands of a turnaround.
2:06:25ENNathalie Cabrol Wants the Nature of Life, Not Just a Signal from MarsGuest Nathalie Cabrol · Host Lex FridmanThe SETI Institute astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why crater lakes, panspermia, and a Mandelbrot view of language all point to the same question: what life actually is.
55:47ZH → EnglishNeural Corpus Indexer: Generating Document IDs for RetrievalFrom inverted indexes and two-tower retrieval to NCI’s semantic document IDs, including the corrected data leakage and deployment bottlenecks.
53:50ENBartosz Milewski: A Taste of Type TheoryBartosz Milewski · Reliable SoftwareFrom recursive natural numbers and dependent vectors to identity types and path induction.
58:18ENHadi Partovi on Leadership, Hiring and Teaching Computer ScienceGuest Hadi Partovi · Host Harry StebbingsThe Code.org founder draws on Microsoft, Facebook and startup experience to discuss decision-making, talent and an education system adapting to technology.
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