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12:39ENPrompting for Realistic Images: Portraits, Food, Nature and InteriorsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman experiments with Midjourney v4 prompts in 2023, showing how subject, lighting and descriptive details affect generated images.
51:40ENHunter Somerville on Venture Secondaries, Liquidity and LP DecisionsGuest Hunter Somerville · Host Harry StebbingsThe StepStone partner explains secondary structures, discounts and allocation pressures in a 2023 venture market with limited liquidity.
1:11:48ENJamie Siminoff on Ring’s Near-Failure, Amazon Sale and MissionGuest Jamie Siminoff · Host Harry StebbingsRing’s founder recounts a cash crisis, the Amazon acquisition and his approach to customer feedback, leadership and invention.
1:26:20ENForty Dollars to Index Joe Rogan: Chroma, Shovels, and the Wright Flyer Era of MLHost Nathan LabenzChroma co-founder Anton Troynikov on embeddings as the storage layer for language-model apps, Stable Attribution, and why machine learning is still flying on intuition.
46:57EN95% of Drug Programs Fail. Daphne Koller Is Betting Machine Learning on the First DecisionHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilA new medicine still takes more than a decade and well over a billion dollars — and Insitro's founder argues the expensive failures start with the wrong target, indication, or patient.
1:52:15ENWhen Ginni Rometty Took IBM, Only Two in Ten Had the Skills the Future RequiredGuest Ginni Rometty · Host Lex FridmanThe former IBM CEO talks with Lex Fridman about changing a century-old company, hiring for curiosity, and using power without turning cold.
4:57ENHow Microsoft Research Used ChatGPT to Guide Robots and DronesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 research demonstration combines natural-language instructions, robot APIs and human review to generate code for physical and simulated tasks.
4:56ENGPT-4 Before Its Release: Rumors, Expectations, and What Happened NextMatthew Berman, Sam Altman · Forward FutureIn February 2023, Matthew Berman reviews speculation about GPT-4, Microsoft, multimodality, and release timing. Later announcements clarify several of those predictions.
1:10:33ENDavid Tisch on Seed Fund Math, Valuations and Founder–Investor AlignmentGuest David Tisch · Host Harry StebbingsThe BoxGroup investor debates small checks, reserves and fundraising trade-offs with Harry Stebbings, and explains why he favors a flexible seed strategy.
37:24ENGrace and Nolen's Software Engineering Mock InterviewGrace, Nolen · Jane StreetA unit-conversion graph illustrates how Jane Street interviewers discuss design, code, errors and communication with a candidate.
12:17ENA 2023 Guide to Prompting ChatGPT: Instructions, Examples, and LimitationsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through prompt components, common tasks, examples, and adversarial prompting in an early ChatGPT tutorial.
2:13:07ENHe Worked Scientology Full-Time and Never Learned What It Believed at the TopGuest Aaron Smith-Levin · Host Lex FridmanFormer Sea Org member Aaron Smith-Levin walks Lex Fridman from thetans and Dianetics to billion-year contracts, OT levels, and the family-destruction policy he uses to call it a cult.
42:16ENJoey Levin on Investing, Simplicity and Leading Through a Market ResetGuest Joey Levin · Host Harry StebbingsThe IAC CEO discusses valuation, SPACs, company values and persistence in a February 2023 conversation.
32:48ENA Hundred Million to Train, a Penny to InferHost Nathan LabenzIn a February 2023 roundtable, two founders argue on mic over whether AGI ends humanity — and who actually captures the value if it does not.
37:26ENWithout Open Source, Machine Learning Would Be Decades BehindHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilHugging Face CEO Clem Delangue on the Tamagotchi pivot, why the company never hired a community manager, and why he does not believe one model will rule them all.
1:20:58ENKevin Systrom and Mike Krieger on Partnership, Recommendations and ArtifactGuest Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger · Host Harry StebbingsInstagram’s founders discuss building together again, the cold-start problem in personalized feeds and the lessons they brought to a new startup.
41:17ENZach Lawryk on Sales Engineering, Buyer Value and Building the First TeamGuest Zach Lawryk · Host Harry StebbingsThe Rippling solutions consulting leader explains when to hire technical sales specialists, how to evaluate them and how they help buyers make decisions.
7:55ENHow to Train a Custom Image Model in Leonardo.aiMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through Leonardo.ai’s 2023 model galleries, training-set guidance, and custom model workflow, then shares results from several experiments.
3:07:18ENIf Human History Were a Thousand-Page Book, Nearly All of It Would Be BlankGuest Tim Urban · Host Lex FridmanTim Urban walks Lex Fridman through a self-help book for societies, from a gratitude dial in every head to the movements that hijack liberal institutions.
50:12ENThe Drone Is Only 15 Percent of the ProblemHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilZipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton on why blood delivery in Rwanda, not a cooler airplane, built the world's largest commercial autonomous system.
13:22ENThree Approaches to AI Music: Soundraw, Synthesizer V and MusicLMMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 demonstration explores generated instrumentals, editable synthetic vocals and early text-to-music research.
1:01:25ENAloe Blacc on Songwriting, Fame and Creating a Life Beyond TouringGuest Aloe Blacc · Host Harry StebbingsThe singer describes his creative process, working with Avicii and the choices that shape his family life and new venture.
0:50ENTom Loverro on How Market Corrections Reach Startup ValuationsGuest Tom Loverro · Host Harry StebbingsA 2023 investor perspective on the lag between public and private markets.
1:01:55ENMike Duboe on Growth Teams, Experiments and Paid MarketingGuest Mike Duboe · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Stitch Fix growth leader explains how to choose meaningful metrics, hire for growth and test whether marketing actually creates demand.
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