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Lex FridmanPodcastFrom NAND Gates to Self-Driving Traffic: Deep Reinforcement Learning in One LectureHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's second MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from the humble perceptron to deep Q-learning and the browser-based DeepTraffic competition.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastYour Career Is the Most Important Product You'll Ever ShipHost Lenny RachitskyA product-leadership framework for navigating dozens of jobs, building career stories, avoiding burnout, and turning reputation into opportunity.
12:01ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersThe Big Nap: Why Eric Weinstein Thinks the Pandemic Ends 75 Quiet YearsGuest The Big Nap · Host Lex FridmanIn an April 2020 conversation, Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman discuss what a global crisis reveals about collective action, fragility, and the institutions we treat as museum pieces.
1:05:15ENLex FridmanPodcastTaming the Long Tail: How Waymo Builds a Self-Driving FactoryHost Lex FridmanWaymo principal scientist Drago Anguelov explains how machine learning infrastructure, hybrid design and smart simulated agents tackle the rare events of autonomous driving.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastServal's Jake Stout on Outbuilding ServiceNow: Mirror the System of Record, Bet on Code, and Ship Before the Incumbent Can Book a MeetingHost Jacob EffronHow an AI-native employee-support startup attacks a legacy ITSM incumbent with velocity, code-generated workflows and a permissions-first architecture.
1:27:15ENLex FridmanPodcastPolicy Gradients vs. Q-Learning: John Schulman's Field Guide to Deep Reinforcement LearningHost Lex FridmanOpenAI's John Schulman walks through the core methods of deep RL, from the score function estimator to TRPO and DQN, and says when each one is worth using.
1:25:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShipping in Days: How Claude Code's Head of Product Runs a Team at AI SpeedHost Lenny RachitskyCat Wu, Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, explains how the PM role, hiring, tooling and culture change when features go from idea to users in a week or less.
1:24:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPlant Seeds, Don't Pour Concrete: Alex Komoroske on Gardening Your Way Through the LLM EraGuest Alex Komoroske · Host Lenny RachitskyA former Google and Stripe strategist explains why LLMs are "magical duct tape," how organizations lie to themselves, and why gardeners beat builders when the playbook is changing.
1:39:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastRust-Proofing a Company: Eric Ries on Why Success Corrupts and Governance ProtectsHost Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Lean Startup explains why good companies go bad, and the charters, trusts and habits that keep a mission intact.
1:07:20ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersRiding the Lightning: What Hypergrowth Companies Share, According to Atlassian's Former Marketing ChiefGuest Carilu Dietrich · Host Lenny RachitskyCarilu Dietrich draws on her years at Atlassian and her advisory work with fast-growing B2B companies to explain how to build a career, a brand and a growth engine.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersThe Agent State: How AI Flattened the Adversary Pyramid and Why Defenders Need Their Own Frontier ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz explains how low-skill attackers now wield nation-state tradecraft through AI agents, and how CrowdStrike and Nvidia are training security-specific models to fight back.
1:22:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersRadical Self-Inquiry: Jerry Colonna on Growing Up Without Feeling Like CrapGuest Jerry Colonna · Host Lenny RachitskyExecutive coach Jerry Colonna explains why leadership and resilience come from honest inner work, not just practical skills, and how unexamined childhood patterns quietly shape our teams and companies.
1:25:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShip Weekly, Cut Scope, and Keep a Secret Roadmap: How Captions Builds in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyGaurav Misra explains how a modern AI startup turns constant model progress into weekly shipped products, technical debt as leverage, and talking-video tools for non-professionals.
1:55:04ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersMining the Computational Universe: Stephen Wolfram on What AI Can and Can't Be Told to DoGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn a talk for MIT's AGI course, Stephen Wolfram connects Wolfram Alpha, simple programs, computational irreducibility and the problem of telling machines what humans want.
1:09:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhen Anyone Can Build Anything, Taste Becomes the Product JobHost Lenny RachitskyCodex desktop lead Andrew Ambrosino on how AI has inverted product development, why roles are blurring but shouldn't vanish, and where Codex and ChatGPT are headed.
1:19:21ENLex FridmanPodcastVapnik's Case for Learning by Predicates, Not Just by More DataHost Lex FridmanIn an MIT lecture, Vladimir Vapnik argues that complete statistical learning needs two mechanisms, data and invariants, and that choosing smart predicates is where intelligence lives.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastWhen the Model Learns to Look Around: Apollo Research on Testing o1 for SchemingHost Nathan LabenzApollo Research founder Marius Hobbhahn explains how his team probed OpenAI's o1 for deception, what it found, and why the trajectory worries him more than the model itself.
1:36:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcastUnderstaff on Purpose, Never Be Chill: Matt MacInnis on Leading Rippling Through EntropyHost Lenny RachitskyRippling's chief product officer and longtime COO explains why extraordinary outcomes demand extraordinary effort, and the frameworks he uses to hire, set process and keep intensity high.
1:03:25ENLex FridmanPodcastTheano in an Hour: Symbolic Graphs, Automatic Gradients and a Compiler That Rewrites Your MathHost Lex FridmanPascal Lamblin of MILA walks through how Theano builds, differentiates, optimizes and runs computation graphs, then trains logistic regression, a convnet and an LSTM.
31:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Rivian Threw Out Its First Self-Driving Stack and Built Its Own BrainHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRivian founder RJ Scaringe explains the neural-net reset, in-house chips, software-defined architecture and the mass-market R2 bet.
10:24ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersConcepts: How C++ Finally Got Compile-Time Constraints on TemplatesGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup explains what C++ concepts are, why they are real and shippable today, and why it took decades to get them right.
53:47ENLex FridmanPodcastLex Fridman Meets the Narrator: A Playthrough of The Stanley Parable as Existential CrisisHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman plays The Stanley Parable and riffs on free will, the simulation, reincarnation, mind control and mortality as the narrator rewrites his choices.
1:51:30ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersNever Search Alone: Why a Job Search Council Beats Going It SoloGuest Phyl Terry · Host Lenny RachitskyPhyl Terry explains how job seekers can borrow product-management methods and a small peer group to find work they actually want, even in a down market.
11:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFilling the Empty Quadrants: Jim Gates on Supersymmetry and the Beauty of Broken SymmetryGuest Jim Gates · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Jim Gates explains supersymmetry with a four-slice pie, recalls how he chose it for his thesis in the 1970s, and connects it to the way physics moves from mathematics to experiment.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,492