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1:12:51ENDavis Smith on Building Cotopaxi, Patient Capital and a Life of PurposeGuest Davis Smith · Host Harry StebbingsThe Cotopaxi founder discusses his early businesses, mission-led fundraising, leadership transition and the trade-offs between growth and family.
39:36ENThe Most Underestimated AI Buyer Is the Shop on the CornerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer Square CEO Alyssa Henry tells No Priors that generative AI is unlocking work small merchants always needed and never paid anyone to do.
2:11:32ENThere Are a Thousand Ways to Be Smart: Jeff Bezos on Amazon and the Road to SpaceGuest Jeff Bezos · Host Lex FridmanIn a two-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Amazon founder talks through ranch self-reliance, New Glenn, Day One culture, and why he treats large language models as discoveries.
19:37ENHow Rephrased Test Data Inflated a 13B Model’s Benchmark ScoresMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a 2023 experiment showing how reworded benchmark questions can evade simple contamination checks and inflate model scores.
55:24ENSteve Goldberg on Selling to CFOs, Reviewing Deals and Building Customer TrustGuest Steve Goldberg · Host Harry StebbingsThe Salesloft revenue leader explains how to find a real champion, demonstrate business outcomes and make renewals part of the sales process.
20:49ENMixtral 8x7B: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture, Setup and Early TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Mistral AI’s December 2023 open-weight model, demonstrates a cloud setup and tests its coding and reasoning responses.
1:00ENAdding Weighted Dice with a Visual ConvolutionGrant SandersonA grid and its diagonals show the probability distribution of a sum.
0:59ENHow a Simple Image Convolution Creates BlurSlide a 3×3 grid of equal weights over an image and average neighboring colors.
2:16:27ENSuperhuman Go Has a Blind Spot. Balaji Bets on a War of the GodsHost Nathan LabenzBalaji Srinivasan tells Nathan Labenz why adversarial inputs, missing actuators, and cryptography make a single runaway AI god less likely than a contest among many that still need priests.
1:19:53ENSam Corcos on Fundraising, Transparency and Intentional TimeGuest Sam Corcos · Host Harry StebbingsThe Levels co-founder explains how he works with investors, experiments with a transparent culture and makes room for family and spontaneity.
1:00ENThe Necklace-Splitting Puzzle: Fair Shares with Few CutsA short introduction to a topological existence claim.
3:19:21ENComplexity without copies is just randomness: Lee Cronin on assembly theoryGuest Lee Cronin · Host Lex FridmanThe Glasgow chemist walks Lex Fridman through his controversial Nature paper, a proposed life meter for other worlds, and the claim that the universe is too big to contain its own future.
1:17:20ENHume wants well-being in the objective function, measured 53 emotions at a timeHost Nathan LabenzAlan Cowen tells Nathan Labenz how Hume AI reads face, voice, and language, sells custom models at $1.66 an hour, and wants long-horizon well-being to override every other AI goal.
1:00ENThe Barber-Pole Effect in a Tube of Sugar WaterTwo polarizing filters and a sugar solution produce moving bands of color and a puzzle about symmetry.
1:06:31ENSanjit Biswas on Product-Market Fit, Sales and Building Samsara for the Long TermGuest Sanjit Biswas · Host Harry StebbingsThe Samsara co-founder discusses lessons from Meraki, customer-led product expansion, hiring and capital allocation.
0:59ENTurning Images Into Sound, One Pixel at a TimeA visual thought experiment maps each pixel to a frequency and its brightness to volume.
1:28:07ENThe AIs We're Most Afraid Of Don't Exist Yet — So She's Studying Amoebas and Firm BoundariesHost Nathan LabenzNora Ammann of PIBBSS argues that intelligent behavior may share principles across brains, cells, markets, and future AI — and that we need those other systems because we cannot trial-and-error the ones that would be too powerful to get wrong.
27:14ENSeven People Did the Work of 700. Salesforce's AI Chief Says Enterprise AI Is Still in the Second InningHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilClara Shih tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why Salesforce built a shared LLM platform, why data cleanup beats model shopping, and why AI is becoming the enterprise UI.
26:52ENGoogle’s Gemini Launch: Multimodal Demos, Benchmarks and Research ApplicationsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Google’s December 2023 Gemini report and promotional demonstrations, from visual reasoning to scientific literature screening.
1:00ENHow a Prism Separates White LightRefraction and dispersion split light into spectral colors.
59:36ENGeoff Charles on Product Teams, Sprint Velocity and Strategy at RampGuest Geoff Charles · Host Harry StebbingsRamp’s product leader explains customer discovery, two-week sprints, reusable systems and hiring for execution.
0:34ENDara Khosrowshahi on Why He Joined UberA conversation with Daniel Ek reframed an offer Dara Khosrowshahi initially wanted to decline.
1:25:06ENTooey Courtemanche on Procore's Long Road to Growth and the Work of LeadingGuest Tooey Courtemanche · Host Harry StebbingsThe construction software founder discusses surviving a slow market, building a product platform, delegating and balancing a company with family life.
59:24ENIf You Only Trust What You Can See, You Miss Most of the UniverseGuest Lisa Randall · Host Lex FridmanHarvard physicist Lisa Randall talks with Lex Fridman about dark matter, dinosaur extinctions, the LHC, and why a theory is only as good as the measurement that can kill it.
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