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2:56:24ENIt Is Knowing We Will Die That Makes Us HumanInvité : Sheldon Solomon · Anime : Lex FridmanSheldon Solomon tells Lex Fridman how death anxiety, from an eight-year-old's stamp collection to 28-millisecond lab primes, quietly runs politics, religion, and everyday life.
1:41:35ENThe Smallest Lights: Sara Seager on Finding Life Beyond the SunInvité : Sara Seager · Anime : Lex FridmanThe MIT planetary scientist talks with Lex Fridman about exoplanets, biosignature gases, a flower-shaped starshade, and the grief that sent her looking for another Earth.
2:10:06ENYou Might Have to Understand the World to Understand the Letter AInvité : Dileep George · Anime : Lex FridmanDileep George on recursive cortical networks, why a five-year-old can read any new CAPTCHA, and what the Wright brothers actually learned from birds.
2:48:46ENLet Physics Walk: Russ Tedrake on Underactuated Robots, Contact, and Barefoot CommutesInvité : Russ Tedrake · Anime : Lex FridmanMIT’s Russ Tedrake talks with Lex Fridman about gravity-powered walkers, a dead trout that swims upstream, why contact still breaks classical control, and what the DARPA Robotics Challenge taught him about testing.
2:29:24ENWe Are the Descendants of the First Digital ComputerInvité : Manolis Kellis · Anime : Lex FridmanMIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis tells Lex Fridman why life is digital, why any two humans are 99.9 percent identical, and what evolutionary signatures reveal inside SARS-CoV-2.
1:34:10ENAll-In E6: Antitrust, Startup Acquisitions and Platform SpeechAnime : Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergA July 2020 debate on Big Tech hearings, marketplace power and the presidential election.
2:01:15ENNobody Died from the Fukushima ReactorsInvité : Ian Hutchinson · Anime : Lex FridmanMIT plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson on fusion, a hundredfold carbon cut, scientism, and why faith is more than believing unproven claims.
2:07:32ENRichard Karp: Either All These Problems Are Easy, or None of Them AreInvité : Richard Karp · Anime : Lex FridmanThe Turing Award winner walks Lex Fridman from a geometry proof that stopped him at 13 through NP-completeness, randomized algorithms, and why no program yet outthinks a six-month-old.
11:41ENFive Ways to Calculate the Wait for a Successful ShotSawyer · Jane StreetA 20% success rate leads to an expected wait of five attempts—but two consecutive successes take 30. Explore the reasoning through series, recursion and a long-run argument.
1:41:37ENThe Fallacy of the Successful First Step: Jitendra Malik on Why Seeing Still Isn't SolvedInvité : Jitendra Malik · Anime : Lex FridmanBerkeley's Jitendra Malik tells Lex Fridman why computer vision keeps underestimating itself, why full self-driving still needs cognition, and why vision is the parent of language.
3:40ENBrian Kernighan on JavaScript and Software DependenciesInvité : Brian Kernighan · Anime : Lex FridmanA 2020 conversation about language evolution and package complexity.
1:43:10ENKen Thompson's Wife Left for Three Weeks. He Wrote Unix.Invité : Brian Kernighan · Anime : Lex FridmanBrian Kernighan walks Lex Fridman through Bell Labs, C, AWK, AMPL, and a lifetime of tools that millions of people still run — including all of his mistakes.
10:32ENReal Numbers: Expected Time Between Exams and a Half-Court Shot ChallengeSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer solves an exam-scheduling problem in several ways, then asks how many basketball attempts it takes to make one shot or two in a row.
1:37:31ENThe Robot That Brought the Beer Was Being TeleoperatedInvité : Sergey Levine · Anime : Lex FridmanSergey Levine tells Lex Fridman why hardware is almost closed, why common sense has to be lived, and why offline reinforcement learning is the missing on-ramp from logs to robots that keep getting better.
6:04ENFinals Week and the Expected Number of Snowboards UsedSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a new exam-scheduling puzzle and uses indicator variables in two ways to solve the previous snowboard problem.
6:16ENIndicator Variables: Marching Bands and SnowboardsSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer uses linearity of expectation to count in-step rows, then poses a six-snowboard challenge.
1:09:14ENSuffering Is a State You'd Rather Not Be In — Peter Singer on Animals, Robots, and UsInvité : Peter Singer · Anime : Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the Princeton bioethicist defines suffering, extends it from factory farms to possible machine minds, and still puts extreme poverty first.
9:40ENReal Numbers: A Marching Band Challenge, Expected Damage, and Bayes’ RuleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces a marching-band expected-value puzzle and uses linearity and Bayesian updating to solve a monster-attack problem.
10:08ENExpected Damage and a Golden-Ratio Window PuzzleSawyer · Jane StreetSawyer introduces expected value with an unknown video-game monster, then uses geometry to solve a painting-through-a-window problem.
2:00:32ENSlow Synapses Grow Fast Learners — Warmth Is the Harder ProblemInvité : Matt Botvinick · Anime : Lex FridmanDeepMind neuroscience director Matt Botvinick tells Lex Fridman how prefrontal cortex, meta-reinforcement learning, and dopamine research meet the human question of what a better life with AI would actually look like.
45:31ENYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessAnime : Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
7:55ENThe Art Thief’s Window and a Toy Boat’s Return JourneySawyer · Jane StreetSawyer poses a geometric window puzzle and solves the previous episode’s river-crossing problem in two ways.
1:02:14ENThe 28-year wait: Robert Langer on rejection, polymers, and a thousand studentsInvité : Robert Langer · Anime : Lex FridmanThe MIT bioengineer talks with Lex Fridman about drug delivery, tissue engineering, patents, and the long path from a Folkman hypothesis to Avastin.
1:49:51ENThe Idea Once Called a Devolution Now Powers Almost Every New ChipInvité : David Patterson · Anime : Lex FridmanTuring Award winner David Patterson talks with Lex Fridman about RISC, RAID, Moore's Law, open hardware, and why chips without a software stack die.
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