Artículos recientes
4481 artículosOrdenar
2:42:47ENThe Invasion Was a MistakeInvitado: Robert Crews · Presenta: Lex FridmanStanford historian Robert Crews on why Afghanistan was never the center of 9/11, what Bin Laden actually wrote, and how four presidents stayed on the highway until the tank ran dry.
2:44:38ENPosting a photo of this moment was not a product category yetInvitado: Kevin Systrom · Presenta: Lex FridmanKevin Systrom tells Lex Fridman how Instagram began as a failed check-in app, hid a slow upload behind a caption screen, and later sold a thirteen-person company to Facebook for a billion dollars.
2:15:27ENHe Took People Down in 53 of 55 MMA Rounds. Then Two Clips Defined Him.Invitado: Ben Askren · Presenta: Lex FridmanBen Askren talks with Lex Fridman about scoring fights, chasing hard matches, building a wrestling robot, and why he says he never proved he was the best.
3:14:14ENFour Joints, Eighty Thousand Pounds: Boris Sofman on Cozmo and WaymoInvitado: Boris Sofman · Presenta: Lex FridmanAnki's co-founder on saturating a few channels of expression, why a beloved robot company still died, and how the same constraint mindset now runs Waymo's trucks.
2:39:51ENChemical Rockets Are an Accident of HistoryInvitado: Neal Stephenson · Presenta: Lex FridmanNeal Stephenson talks with Lex Fridman about WWII’s leftover launchers, why the stars need a religion, AR baby goats, and why fun is a better goal than greatness.
2:41:13ENThe Minefield Used to Be the Point: Niall Ferguson on Universities, Money, and 1914Invitado: Niall Ferguson · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe historian tells Lex Fridman why he is founding a university in Austin, why money is a technology of trust, and which cabinet decision turned a European war into the twentieth century.
1:26:53ENFrancis Collins Cannot Exclude a Lab LeakInvitado: Francis Collins · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe outgoing NIH director talks with Lex Fridman about COVID origins, gain-of-function research, Anthony Fauci, vaccines, and why scientific certainty is the wrong pose.
3:12:17ENYou Better Already Have Everything You Ever WantedInvitado: Steve Viscelli · Presenta: Lex FridmanA former long-haul driver turned Penn sociologist walks Lex Fridman through how trucking fell from a golden-age trade to a last-resort job, and the six ways robots might finish the work.
1:01:11ENAnil Madhavapeddy on MirageOS and the Evolution of Operating SystemsYaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy · Jane StreetFrom Xen and unikernels to OCaml's multicore research, a systems researcher explains how changing abstractions reshape infrastructure.
2:23:08ENHate Losing More Than You Love Winning: Jimmy Pedro on Forging Judo ChampionsInvitado: Jimmy Pedro · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe four-time Olympian and coach of Kayla Harrison and Travis Stevens on uchi mata, visualization, and why American judo loses its teenagers at thirteen.
1:46:47ENA Perfect Rapid Test Would Fail the FDA. Michael Mina Explains Why That Is the PointInvitado: Michael Mina · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe Harvard immunologist tells Lex Fridman that paper-strip antigen tests answer the only public-health question that matters—are you infectious right now—and that one presidential sentence could unlock them.
3:38:43ENConsciousness Is a Step Down From IntelligenceInvitado: Stephen Wolfram · Presenta: Lex FridmanStephen Wolfram tells Lex Fridman how simple programs, a discrete fabric of space, and a computationally bounded observer together explain complexity, physics, and why the universe exists.
12:40ENThe 2021 Summer of Math Exposition: Selected Works and Lessons3Blue1Brown highlights mathematical explainers, from light in a mug to Bézier curves and Pick’s theorem.
1:11:03ENCarl Hart’s case that addiction lives outside the moleculeInvitado: Carl Hart · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe Columbia psychologist tells Lex Fridman that most drug effects are positive, that alcohol withdrawal is deadlier than heroin’s, and that the war on drugs pays a long list of people to keep a scapegoat in place.
1:45:45ENA Blink of Ordered Particles: Brian Greene on Entropy, Meaning, and DeathInvitado: Brian Greene · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe Columbia physicist talks with Lex Fridman about heat death, consciousness, string theory, the Big Bang, aliens, Mars, and the kind of freedom that survives without free will.
2:33:37ENNumber Go Up Hides Freedom Go Up: Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin, Dictators, and Human RightsInvitado: Alex Gladstein · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategist argues that money was missing from the human-rights conversation, and that Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that turns greed into a tool for individual sovereignty.
4:06:06ENShe Picked Up a Perfectly Laced Boot and Said They Could Reuse ItInvitado: Kelsi Sheren · Presenta: Lex FridmanKelsi Sheren was a 19-year-old, 103-pound Canadian artillery gunner on an M777 howitzer in Afghanistan; she came home with the light switch off and spent a decade finding a way back.
26:05ENNewton’s Method and the Fractal Boundaries Between RootsAn everyday numerical algorithm produces unexpectedly intricate patterns when starting guesses are plotted in the complex plane.
2:35:22ENThe Goodness Paradox: How Humans Became Both Unusually Kind and Unusually LethalInvitado: Richard Wrangham · Presenta: Lex FridmanRichard Wrangham tells Lex Fridman how fire, a coup against alpha males, and a split between two kinds of aggression made Homo sapiens.
1:00:04ENTy Overby on Bonsai and Building Functional User InterfacesYaron Minsky, Ty Overby · Jane StreetWhy Jane Street built a composable OCaml UI framework, and what its design reveals about incremental computation, browsers, and visual programming.
1:26:20ENRZA: You Can Be Wisdom. You Cannot Raise the Dead.Invitado: RZA · Presenta: Lex FridmanThe Wu-Tang Clan architect talks with Lex Fridman about his mother's death, kung fu, chess, Allah, and why confusion is a gift.
2:52:58ENYou Are Not a Great Writer Until You Write the BookInvitado: Sean Kelly · Presenta: Lex FridmanHarvard philosopher Sean Kelly talks with Lex Fridman about existentialism, nihilism, and how to live when nothing outside us grounds the self.
1:30:40ENI'm Giving You This Feedback Because I Believe in YouInvitado: Jo Boaler · Presenta: Lex FridmanStanford mathematician Jo Boaler on visual math, why struggle only works if you think you can get there, and how a 90-minute class raised classroom engagement 68 percent.
2:56:42ENSilicon Does Not Emit LightInvitado: Jeffrey Shainline · Presenta: Lex FridmanNIST physicist Jeffrey Shainline on why a brain-like computer should calculate in superconducting electronics and talk with single photons.
Cargar másMostrando 24 de 4481









