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Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.
#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
Avi Loeb is an astrophysicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(10:08) - Are we alone in the universe?
(14:23) - Consciousness
(19:01) - Sending digital copies of humans to space
(23:38) - Oumuamua
(45:42) - Alien space junk
(49:41) - What do aliens look like?
(1:06:58) - Drake equation
(1:08:00) - Industrial polution from aliens
(1:19:52) - UFO sightings
(1:27:48) - How long will human civilization last?
(1:30:28) - Radio signal from Proxima Centauri
(1:33:49) - Breakthrough Starshot project
(1:36:49) - Space race
(1:42:00) - Human space exploration
(1:47:15) - Social media is a threat to society
(1:52:04) - Are humans ready for discovering an alien civilization?
(1:56:15) - Mayans used astrology to wage war
(1:57:31) - Black holes
(2:16:20) - Stephen Hawking
(2:19:59) - Grigori Perelman
(2:24:24) - Theory of everything
(2:31:23) - Dark matter
(2:34:06) - Advice for young people
(2:37:10) - Memories of my father and mother
(2:41:38) - Existentialism
(2:43:52) - Mortality
(2:46:27) - Meaning of life
02:51:2414/01/2021
#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI
Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at WPI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:21) - Proteins and the building blocks of life
(14:23) - Spike protein
(21:11) - Coronavirus biological structure explained
(26:09) - Virus mutations
(32:39) - Evolution of proteins
(42:25) - Self-replicating computer programs
(50:02) - Origin of life
(57:34) - Extraterrestrial life in our solar system
(59:31) - Joshua Lederberg
(1:05:30) - Dendral
(1:08:24) - Why did expert systems fail?
(1:10:35) - AlphaFold 2
(1:32:13) - Will AI revolutionize art and music?
(1:39:12) - Multi-protein folding
(1:43:39) - Will AlphaFold 2 result in a Nobel Prize?
(1:46:10) - Will AI be used to engineer deadly viruses?
(2:01:17) - Book recommendations
(2:11:00) - Family
(2:13:38) - A poem in Russian
02:18:1011/01/2021
#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions
Dan Gable is one of the greatest Olympic athletes and wrestling coaches of all time. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(09:31) - Russian wrestling
(11:09) - Coaching the science, art, and toughness of wrestling
(18:05) - The pain of defeat and the tattoo of a hawk clawing out the heart
(21:04) - Roger Bannister and the 4 minute mile
(24:09) - The dream of becoming an Olympic champion
(26:38) - The day in 1972 of the Olympic final
(30:10) - Sauna story
(31:39) - Match against the Russian
(37:13) - The role of fear in wrestling
(42:14) - The line between physical wrestling and anger
(46:53) - Tragic loss of Dan's sister
(54:21) - The role of family in wrestling
(59:43) - Wrestling being voted out of the Olympics
(1:04:26) - To beat the best you must study the best
(1:09:39) - The role of luck (Old Man and the Sea)
01:16:4009/01/2021
#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
Dan Kokotov is VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, an automatic speech recognition company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(09:17) - Dune
(12:34) - Rev
(18:33) - Translation
(25:22) - Gig economy
(34:02) - Automatic speech recognition
(44:53) - Create products that people love
(53:02) - The future of podcasts at Spotify
(1:14:41) - Book recommendations
(1:16:02) - Stories of our dystopian future
(1:19:45) - Movies about Stalin and Hitler
(1:24:59) - Interviewing Putin
(1:30:56) - Meaning of life
01:34:5104/01/2021
#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Podcast (Round 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIk1zUy8ehU
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(00:00) - Introduction
(09:47) - Conversation with Alex Jones and Tim Pool
(18:31) - Michael's outfit
(26:53) - Self-publishing a book
(36:41) - The white pill
(48:05) - What did the volcano say to his true love?
(49:28) - Myth of Sisyphus
(53:09) - Journalism failed to stop Stalin and Hitler
(1:00:53) - Good Germans
(1:04:49) - Richard Wolff
(1:08:20) - Could United States have stayed out of World War II
(1:11:12) - Trump Derangement Syndrome
(1:12:58) - Nazism and Antisemitism
(1:15:40) - Knock knock
(1:22:20) - Putin
(1:30:00) - The evil of Kim Jong-il and North Korea
(1:38:32) - Dark humor
(1:43:18) - Comedy is tragedy plus timing
(1:50:34) - Interviewing difficult guests
(2:00:06) - Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)
(2:16:24) - Violence under anarchism
(2:31:58) - Ayn Rand
(2:35:07) - Secession in United States
(2:44:46) - Politics over next 4 years
(2:52:14) - Mars
(2:56:17) - UFOs
(2:59:12) - Psychedelics
(3:03:08) - What is love?
03:09:2531/12/2020
#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief
Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of philosophy and religion at UNCW and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:28) - What is real?
(13:56) - Can beliefs become reality?
(18:59) - Donald Hoffman
(22:57) - Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
(26:27) - Ayn Rand
(33:25) - How do religions start?
(48:38) - Religion is an evolutionary advantage
(53:59) - Religion used in propaganda
(58:32) - What did Nietzsche mean by "God is Dead"?
(1:03:59) - American Cosmic
(1:07:45) - What do aliens look like?
(1:16:28) - History of space programs
(1:19:30) - Jacques Vallee
(1:28:55) - Artificial intelligence
(1:34:25) - Ufology community
(1:45:38) - Psychedelics
(1:49:35) - Tic Tac UFO
(1:58:09) - Roswell UFO incident
(2:09:14) - Bob Lazar
(2:12:50) - Monoliths in the desert
(2:23:39) - Humans will co-evolve with AI
(2:26:58) - Neuralink
(2:31:48) - Singularity
(2:41:39) - Books: Nietzsche
(2:46:44) - Books: Hannah Arendt
(2:51:43) - Fear of death
(2:56:11) - Meaning of life
03:01:4928/12/2020
#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education
Charles Isbell is the Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Michael Littman is a computer scientist at Brown University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:51) - Is machine learning just statistics?
(12:14) - NeurIPS vs ICML
(14:30) - Data is more important than algorithm
(20:14) - The role of hardship in education
(28:57) - How Charles and Michael met
(33:30) - Key to success: never be satisfied
(36:47) - Bell Labs
(48:15) - Teaching machine learning
(58:25) - Westworld and Ex Machina
(1:06:24) - Simulation
(1:13:14) - The college experience in the times of COVID
(1:41:52) - Advice for young people
(1:48:44) - How to learn to program
(2:00:07) - Friendship
02:03:2226/12/2020
#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
Dmitri Dolgov is the CTO of Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:46) - Computer games
(12:52) - Childhood
(15:24) - Robotics
(16:14) - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
(18:26) - DARPA Urban Challenge
(28:46) - Waymo origin story
(44:27) - Waymo self-driving hardware
(53:00) - Connected cars
(58:53) - Waymo fully driverless service in Phoenix
(1:03:14) - Getting feedback from riders
(1:11:28) - Creating a product that people love
(1:17:18) - Do self-driving cars need to break the rules like humans do?
(1:24:03) - Waymo Trucks
(1:29:41) - Future of Waymo
(1:42:53) - Role of lidar in autonomous driving
(1:55:53) - Machine learning is essential for autonomous driving
(1:59:55) - Pedestrians
(2:06:32) - Trolley problem
(2:11:00) - Book recommendations
(2:22:26) - Meaning of life
02:28:5020/12/2020
#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Michael Mina is an immunologist, epidemiologist, and physician at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:28) - Interacting between viruses and bacteria
(11:42) - Deadlier viruses
(15:13) - Will COVID-19 mutate?
(16:47) - Rapid testing
(34:11) - PCR vs rapid antigen tests
(43:55) - Medical industrial complex
(47:47) - Lex takes COVID test
(54:32) - FDA and cheap tests
(57:17) - Explanation of Elon Musk's positive COVID tests
(1:04:25) - Role of testing during vaccine deployment
(1:07:54) - Public health policy
(1:17:34) - A weather system for viruses
(1:34:26) - Can a virus kill all humans?
(1:40:05) - Engineering a deadly virus
(1:44:47) - AlphaFold 2 and viruses
(1:50:42) - Advice for young people
(1:58:50) - Time as a Buddhist monk
(2:04:54) - Meditation
(2:12:32) - Meaning of life
02:19:1719/12/2020
#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(06:31) - Introduction to psychedelics
(22:33) - Psychedelics expand the mind
(25:44) - The priors we bring to the psychedelic experience
(29:40) - Elon Musk and first principles thinking
(40:10) - DMT
(51:32) - Joe Rogan and DMT
(57:40) - The nature of drug addiction
(1:11:29) - The economics of drug pricing
(1:17:44) - Should we legalize all drugs?
(1:29:46) - What is the most dangerous drug?
(1:32:20) - Does drug prohibition work?
(1:36:14) - Cocaine and sex
(1:43:15) - Risky sexual decisions
(1:54:12) - Psilocybin helping people quit smoking
(2:00:30) - Young Jamie
(2:22:38) - Participating in a study
(2:29:57) - Psychedelics and the human mind
(2:37:20) - The future of psychedelics
(2:40:01) - Neuralink
(2:49:33) - Consciousness
(3:02:15) - Panpsychism
(3:12:20) - Aliens and DMT
(3:22:24) - Mortality
(3:32:12) - Meaning of life
03:39:3714/12/2020
#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI
Michael Littman is a computer scientist at Brown University. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(07:43) - Robot and Frank
(10:02) - Music
(13:13) - Starring in a TurboTax commercial
(23:26) - Existential risks of AI
(41:48) - Reinforcement learning
(1:07:36) - AlphaGo and David Silver
(1:17:15) - Will neural networks achieve AGI?
(1:29:42) - Bitter Lesson
(1:42:32) - Does driving require a theory of mind?
(1:51:58) - Book Recommendations
(1:57:20) - Meaning of life
02:01:5513/12/2020
#143 – John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence
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(08:25) - The great American road trip
(25:54) - Martial arts and philosophy
(28:55) - Real vs fake success on Instagram
(39:40) - The brutal honesty of Mike Tyson
(44:26) - Breaking your opponent in wrestling
(52:32) - Genghis Khan
(1:03:38) - It's okay to change your mind
(1:08:15) - Why do politicians become inauthentic
(1:14:52) - Greatness requires sacrifice
(1:17:36) - Whiplash
(1:25:44) - Relationships
(1:31:21) - Greatest fighters of all time
(1:39:02) - Greatest fight of all time
(1:53:25) - Khabib Nurmagomedov
(1:55:13) - Can Conor McGregor beat Khabib Nurmagomedov?
(2:09:29) - Conor vs Khabib 2
(2:16:05) - Will there always be war?
(2:17:41) - Future of civilization
(2:19:52) - Kids
(2:26:37) - The meaning of a "like" on social media
(2:35:34) - Starting a podcast
(2:54:16) - Book recommendations
(2:57:46) - Keeping the independence of solitude
03:00:4206/12/2020
#142 – Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
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(00:00) - Introduction
(06:48) - Music and life
(46:21) - The number 42
(52:22) - The question about the meaning of life
(55:02) - Are humans unique in the universe?
(1:00:46) - Human civilization
(1:12:52) - Mars
(1:14:45) - Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality
(1:25:38) - Neural networks and intelligence
(1:32:55) - Ideas as organisms
(1:42:19) - Language
(1:53:34) - Legacy
(2:08:25) - Poems
SONGS MENTIONED:
[1] Dwros Gewrgiadis - An imoun plousios
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[2] Grigoris Bithikotsis - Ftoxologia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyGR24O0KQ8
[3] Sto perigiali to kryfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GBPx_GXQw
[4] Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqe5NP86OCc
[5] George Michael - Careless Whisper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ
[6] Gainsbourg with Isabelle Adjani - Pull Marine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7MwHGHWgLk
[7] Georges Moustaki - Le meteque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8fGf-N06A
[8] Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_bq5mStroM
[9] Sting - Englishman In New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
[10] Sting - Fragile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY
[11] Pink Floyd - The Wall (When the Tigers Broke Free)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9b9UhFe6Eg
[12] Pink Floyd - The Wall (One Of My Turns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOay-7aqLks
[13] Sting - Russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
[14] Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnf46boC3I
[15] Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnXe8ttmjY
[16] Alison Krauss & Union Station - The Lucky One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcRZ_J_VgNc
00:0030/11/2020
#141 – Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:23) - Exponential growth
(12:51) - Elon Musk exponential thinking
(15:08) - Moore's law is a series of revolutions
(20:31) - GPT-3
(22:09) - Autonomous vehicles
(29:11) - Electricity
(33:40) - Productivity
(38:47) - Why is Twitter and Facebook free?
(49:03) - Dismantling the nature of truth
(52:24) - Nutpicking and Cancel Culture
(58:39) - How will AI change our world
(1:04:40) - Existential threats
(1:06:33) - AI and the nature of work
(1:12:39) - Thoughts on Andrew Yang and UBI
(1:18:30) - Economics of innovation
(1:24:37) - Effect of COVID on the economy
(1:33:50) - MIT and Stanford
(1:38:23) - Book recommendations
(1:41:28) - Meaning of life
01:45:2825/11/2020
#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
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(07:27) - Falling in love
(25:10) - Love at first sight
(39:49) - Romantic
(43:48) - Writing process
(54:32) - Evolution of the human brain
(1:08:41) - Nature of evil
(1:17:23) - Love is an evolutionary advantage
(1:21:59) - Variation in species
(1:27:41) - Does evolution have a direction?
(1:45:19) - Love with an inanimate object
(1:49:37) - Just be yourself is confusing advice
(1:59:49) - Consciousness
(2:06:26) - Book recommendations
02:21:0420/11/2020
#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
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(06:24) - Fear
(14:36) - Virtual reality
(18:20) - Claustrophobia
(20:08) - Skydiving
(21:43) - Overcoming fears
(26:43) - Optimal performance
(29:57) - Deep work
(45:22) - Psychedelics
(49:08) - Deep work
(1:02:48) - Everything in the brain is an abstraction
(1:10:06) - Human vision system
(1:21:42) - Neuralink
(1:49:12) - Science of consciousness
(2:04:00) - David Goggins
(2:21:04) - Science communication
(2:28:36) - Man's Search for Meaning
02:36:2016/11/2020
#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
Yaron Brook is a objectivist philosopher, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(06:28) - Principles of a life well lived
(14:35) - Free will
(20:50) - Nature of reality
(29:28) - Ayn Rand
(1:01:11) - Objectivism
(1:26:29) - Godel Incompleteness Theorem
(1:31:36) - Capitalism
(2:01:22) - Virtue of selfishness
(2:11:27) - Win-win
(2:17:31) - Anarchy
(2:36:24) - Tribalism and division
(2:40:42) - Objectivism and Jordan Peterson on personal responsibility
02:53:4613/11/2020
#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
Alex Filippenko is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Berkeley. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(06:36) - Universe expansion
(08:00) - Dark energy
(15:28) - Scientific revolutions
(27:18) - Asteroid hitting Earth
(30:50) - Giant solar flares and the power grid
(37:50) - Elon Musk and space exploration
(42:41) - Exoplanets
(50:03) - Traveling close to the speed of light
(52:13) - Traveling faster than the speed of light
(1:00:39) - Intelligent life in the universe
(1:04:14) - Fermi Paradox
(1:13:52) - Finding alien life would be bad news
(1:18:49) - UFO sightings
(1:31:58) - Universe expansion speed
(1:36:42) - The universe is infinite
(1:40:58) - What happened before the Big Bang?
(1:45:14) - Roger Penrose
(1:48:48) - Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe
(2:10:23) - Supernova
(2:21:47) - The greatest story ever told
(2:25:44) - Richard Feynman
(2:32:37) - Meaning of life
02:40:2608/11/2020
#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
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(07:53) - Nature of evil
(14:50) - Is violence and force fundamental to human civilization?
(19:58) - Will we always have war?
(29:38) - The Russian front in World War II
(37:32) - Ideologies of the US, the Soviet Union, and China
(50:15) - Putin
(1:02:50) - Journalism is broken
(1:10:16) - Genghis Khan
(1:24:36) - Greatest leader in history
(1:32:21) - Could Hitler have been stopped?
(1:49:21) - Hitler's Antisemitism
(1:55:12) - Destructive power of evil
(2:04:26) - Will human civilization destroy itself?
(2:16:31) - Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX
(2:24:53) - Steering around the iceberg - wow do we avoid collapse of society?
(2:47:00) - Advice on podcasting
(2:50:12) - Joe Rogan, Spotify, and the future of podcasting
(3:05:19) - Future episodes of Hardcore History podcast
(3:20:21) - Is Ben real?
(3:21:05) - Meaning of life
03:26:5303/11/2020
#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America
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(07:16) - Top 3 movies of all time
(13:26) - People are easily predictable
(19:08) - Breaking out of our bubbles
(30:54) - Interactive AI
(37:26) - Lifelong machine learning
(45:53) - Faculty hiring
(53:27) - University rankings
(1:00:55) - Science communicators
(1:10:20) - Hip hop
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(1:20:44) - Computing
(1:36:35) - Race
(1:52:40) - Cop story
(2:01:01) - Racial tensions
(2:10:23) - MLK vs Malcolm X
(2:13:44) - Will human civilization destroy itself?
(2:18:14) - Fear of death and the passing of time
02:28:4202/11/2020
#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness
Eric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist, podcaster, and intellectual. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 - Introduction
07:46 - Eddie Van Halen
15:26 - Leonard Cohen
23:22 - Battle between ego and humility
28:38 - Darkness and beauty
35:20 - Jimi Hendrix
38:08 - Good Will Hunting
42:16 - Revolutionary minds
53:49 - Next Elon Musk should come from MIT
58:14 - Love with save the world
1:03:30 - Are we headed toward a civil war?
1:15:04 - Joe Rogan
1:28:52 - Our political leaders
1:34:11 - Younger people should have more power
1:44:30 - The Portal
2:09:20 - Money
2:11:26 - Roger Penrose
2:19:06 - Jeffrey Epstein
2:37:44 - We need to get off this planet
2:40:41 - An update on Geometric Unity
2:46:33 - Gratitude
02:57:3130/10/2020
#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease
Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 - Introduction
08:05 - Molecular basis for human disease
32:04 - Deadliest diseases
37:47 - Genetic component of diseases
46:38 - Genetic understanding of disease
1:02:25 - Unified theory of human disease
1:08:26 - Genome circuitry
1:33:29 - CRISPR
1:45:06 - Mitochondria
1:53:10 - Future of biology research
2:22:46 - The genetic circuitry of disease
02:40:2425/10/2020
#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
George Hotz (geohot) is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of Comma.ai. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 - Introduction
07:02 - Will human civilization destroy itself?
09:49 - Where are the aliens?
14:36 - Tic Tac UFO and Bob Lazar
17:04 - Conspiracy theories
19:07 - The programming language of life
23:28 - The games that humans play
31:58 - Memory leaks in the simulation
34:29 - Theories of everything
36:14 - Ethereum startup story
44:02 - Cryptocurrency
53:28 - Self-help advice
57:08 - Comma.ai
59:02 - Comma two
1:07:50 - Tesla vs Comma.ai
1:16:53 - Driver monitoring
1:30:34 - Communicating uncertainty
1:32:22 - Tesla Dojo
1:38:50 - Tesla Autopilot big rewrite
1:45:09 - How to install the Comma Two
1:49:44 - Openpilot is Android & Autopilot is iOS
1:58:59 - Waymo
2:10:12 - Autonomous driving and society
2:12:24 - Moving
2:15:29 - Advice to Startups
2:28:32 - Programming setup
2:31:32 - Ideas that changed my life
2:39:37 - GPT-3
2:42:57 - AGI
2:47:00 - Programming languages that everyone should learn
2:53:33 - How to learn anything
2:56:05 - Book recommendations
3:04:28 - Love
3:06:17 - Psychedelics
3:08:38 - Crazy
03:13:2722/10/2020
#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages
Chris Lattner is a world-class software & hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, and SiFive. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 - Introduction
07:12 - Working with Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Dean
12:42 - Why do programming languages matter?
18:42 - Python vs Swift
29:35 - Design decisions
34:53 - Types
38:41 - Programming languages are a bicycle for the mind
41:13 - Picking what language to learn
47:12 - Most beautiful feature of a programming language
56:36 - Walrus operator
1:06:03 - LLVM
1:11:15 - MLIR compiler framework
1:15:21 - SiFive semiconductor design
1:27:56 - Moore's Law
1:31:09 - Parallelization
1:35:37 - Swift concurrency manifesto
1:46:26 - Running a neural network fast
1:52:03 - Is the universe a quantum computer?
1:57:44 - Effects of the pandemic on society
2:14:56 - GPT-3
2:19:15 - Software 2.0
2:32:41 - Advice for young people
2:37:24 - Meaning of life
02:47:3819/10/2020
#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness
Scott Aaronson is a quantum computer scientist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 - Introduction
07:46 - Simulation
12:38 - Theories of everything
18:18 - Consciousness
40:32 - Roger Penrose on consciousness
50:44 - Turing test
54:31 - GPT-3
1:03:02 - Universality of computation
1:09:33 - Complexity
1:15:38 - P vs NP
1:27:57 - Complexity of quantum computation
1:40:03 - Pandemic
1:53:49 - Love
01:56:5712/10/2020
#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist, psychologist, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 - Introduction
06:35 - Are we alone in the universe?
08:03 - Life on Earth
12:55 - Collective intelligence of human brains
21:43 - Triune brain
27:52 - The predicting brain
35:48 - How the brain evolved
41:47 - Free will
50:40 - Is anything real?
1:03:13 - Dreams
1:09:00 - Emotions are human-constructed concepts
1:34:29 - Are women more emotional than men?
1:43:05 - Empathy
2:14:46 - Love
2:18:40 - Mortality
2:20:16 - Meaning of life
02:24:1704/10/2020
#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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00:00 - Introduction
04:15 - Sponsors
07:58 - Putin and the Russian soul
15:01 - Love and trolling
25:31 - Problem with government
31:03 - Anarchism
53:07 - Politics
54:59 - Are most people capable of thinking deeply?
1:02:08 - Willy Wonka and Albert Camus view of life
1:08:08 - Trolling
1:12:26 - Conspiracy theories
1:29:43 - Donald Trump and the Election
1:36:58 - Trump Biden presidential debates
1:41:15 - Journalism is broken
1:47:56 - Communism
1:54:02 - Presidential candidates
2:04:34 - Libertarian party
2:14:56 - Objectivism
2:24:17 - Trolling
2:35:21 - The New Right
2:43:29 - Cancel culture
3:13:17 - Book recommendations
3:18:08 - Fear of mortality
3:21:08 - Meaning of life
03:24:3402/10/2020
#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan is a comedian, UFC commentator, and the host of the Joe Rogan Experience. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
05:17 - Fear of mortality
06:48 - Chaos of 2020 and beyond
10:32 - Are we going to be okay?
19:30 - Violence, competition, and Sober October
26:45 - Mike Tyson
27:49 - Managing obsession
30:13 - Jiu jitsu game
35:55 - Best martial art for self defense
39:30 - Guns
43:59 - Memorable JRE moments
49:31 - Ideas breed in brains of humans
56:08 - Advice for Lex
1:06:09 - Long-form conversation
1:12:28 - Meaning of life
01:19:3826/09/2020
#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
James Gosling is the founder and lead designer of the Java programming language. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:
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0:00 - Introduction
4:45 - Irrational numbers
8:04 - Math and programming
10:36 - Coding style
14:41 - First computer
23:54 - Lisp
27:22 - Write an Emacs implementation in C
35:15 - Early days of the Internet
45:57 - Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos
56:13 - Work hard and smart
58:48 - Open source
1:10:25 - Java
1:28:31 - Java virtual machine
1:44:05 - Android
1:47:04 - Advice
01:51:2824/09/2020
#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace
Ryan Hall is a jiu jitsu black belt, UFC fighter, and a philosopher of the martial arts.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
7:22 - Greatest warrior in history
11:48 - Genghis Khan
17:32 - Nature is metal
21:49 - Cancel culture
36:11 - Sci-fi books and movies
44:50 - Essence of jiu jitsu
51:17 - Jiu jitsu is a language
1:01:12 - How to get started in jiu jitsu
1:14:01 - The value of a good coach
1:25:42 - Lex training with Ryan
1:31:06 - Toxicity on the internet
1:34:41 - Joe Rogan
1:42:25 - Alex Jones
2:07:02 - Donald Trump
2:09:45 - The American ideal
2:17:33 - What does it take to be a jiu jitsu black belt
2:49:06 - Elon Musk
2:57:39 - Fighting BJ Penn
3:04:13 - Conor McGregor
3:12:08 - How to beat Khabib Nurmagomedov
3:16:00 - Top MMA fighters of all time
3:24:41 - Mike Tyson
3:41:13 - Fear of death
00:0020/09/2020
#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. This is our second conversation on the podcast.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
07:14 - Key moments in history of physics
12:43 - Philosophy of science
14:37 - Science and computational reducibility
22:08 - Predicting the pandemic
38:58 - Sunburn moment with Wolfram Alpha
39:46 - Computational irreducibility
46:45 - Theory of everything
52:41 - General relativity
1:01:16 - Quantum mechanics
1:06:46 - Unifying the laws of physics
1:12:01 - Wolfram Physics Project
1:29:53 - Emergence of time
1:34:11 - Causal invariance
1:53:03 - Deriving physics from simple rules on hypergraphs
2:07:24 - Einstein equations
2:13:04 - Simulating the physics of the universe
2:17:28 - Hardware specs of the simulation
2:24:37 - Quantum mechanics in Wolfram physics model
2:42:46 - Double-slit experiment
2:45:13 - Quantum computers
2:53:21 - Getting started with Wolfram physics project
3:14:46 - The rules that created our universe
3:24:22 - Alien intelligences
3:32:29 - Meta-mathematics
3:37:58 - Why is math hard?
3:52:55 - Sabine Hossenfelder and how beauty leads physics astray
4:01:07 - Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity
4:06:17 - Travel faster than speed of light
4:16:59 - Why does the universe exist at all
04:24:0615/09/2020
#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group.
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00:00 - Introduction
06:20 - Epigenome
10:28 - Evolution
15:26 - Neanderthals
27:15 - Origin of life on Earth
43:44 - Life is a fight against physics
49:56 - Life as a set of transformations
51:35 - Time scales
1:00:31 - Transformations of ideas in human civilization
1:05:19 - Life is more than a rat race
1:13:18 - Life sucks sometimes and that's okay
1:30:16 - Getting older
1:36:21 - The best of MIT
1:49:01 - Poem 1: The Snow
2:01:52 - Love
2:06:16 - Poem 2: The Tide Waters
02:11:2012/09/2020
#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
David Fravor is a navy pilot of 18 years and a primary witness in one of the most credible UFO sightings in history, video of which has been released by the Pentagon and reported on by the NY Times.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
07:13 - Top Gun
12:06 - Navy pilot career
24:14 - AI is the third brain of a jet fighter
40:37 - Sully
47:34 - Landing a jet fighter on a carrier
53:18 - What's it like to fly a jet fighter?
1:05:22 - Greatest plane ever made
1:11:04 - The Tic Tac UFO story
1:49:16 - Intelligent extraterrestrial life
1:53:30 - Why aren't UFOs investigated more seriously
1:59:52 - Tic Tac UFO details
2:07:55 - What do you think the Tic Tac was?
2:16:23 - SpaceX
2:30:01 - Response to Mick West Debunking
2:48:24 - Was the Tic Tac a secret military test?
3:00:07 - Is the government in possession of alien spacecraft?
3:25:28 - Interesting UFO sightings in history
3:39:55 - Advice for Young People
3:47:47 - Meaning of life
03:56:5108/09/2020
Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother
My attempt to find the words to honor my grandmother, an amazing woman who is responsible for much of who I am, who taught me how to be a man, taught me about strength, about wisdom, about compassion, about love.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - In memory of my grandmother
02:00 - Lesson 1: Mental Toughness
04:31 - Lesson 2: Strength
07:25 - Lesson 3: Wisdom
08:46 - Lesson 4: Believe in Yourself
12:13 - Lesson 5: Love
15:37 - Poem
18:2207/09/2020
#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
06:18 - Loneliness
13:54 - Can AI alleviate loneliness?
18:13 - Love
20:49 - Russia in the 1990's
31:47 - Chernobyl
41:35 - Communism
49:21 - Losing a friend
57:55 - Mortality
1:10:41 - Replika origin story
1:59:37 - Bringing people back to life with AI
2:05:37 - Relationship with Replika
2:18:27 - Can you form a connection with text alone?
2:27:45 - Does an AI companion need a body?
2:30:20 - Her
2:37:24 - GPT-3 for conversation
2:43:48 - We should be nice to AI
2:46:52 - Book recommendations
2:53:45 - Russian language
2:58:41 - Meaning of life
03:01:3405/09/2020
Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink
My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. Hopefully it's interesting to some folks. The aim is for these episodes to be focused on a particular topic, at times challenging, at times personal, at times exciting to me on a technical and philosophical level like the episode today.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
04:42 - 1. Alleviating Suffering
07:25 - 2. Consciousness and Intelligence
11:39 - 3. Augmented Body, Mind, and Reality
13:42 - 4. Gaming & Virtual Reality
16:25 - 5. Merging Tech & Biology
19:40 - 6. Telepathy
22:58 - 7. Memories & Immortality
28:04 - 8. Merging with AI
33:5301/09/2020
#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
05:04 - Early influence
06:23 - Language
12:50 - Thinking with mind maps
23:42 - Definition of intelligence
42:24 - GPT-3
53:07 - Semantic web
57:22 - Autonomous driving
1:09:30 - Tests of intelligence
1:13:59 - Tests of human intelligence
1:27:18 - IQ tests
1:35:59 - ARC Challenge
1:59:11 - Generalization
2:09:50 - Turing Test
2:20:44 - Hutter prize
2:27:44 - Meaning of life
02:34:4731/08/2020
#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
05:05 - Livewired
16:39 - Hardware vs software
25:53 - Brain-computer interfaces
35:12 - 2020 is a challenge for neuroplasticity
46:08 - Free will
50:43 - Nature of evil
58:55 - Psychiatry
1:06:28 - GPT-3
1:13:31 - Intelligence in the brain
1:21:51 - Neosensory
1:31:27 - Book recommendations
1:34:07 - Meaning of life
1:36:53 - Advice for young people
01:41:5226/08/2020
New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
New podcast name. New Russian hitman thumbnail. Everything else stays the same. AI is still my passion, but this gives me a bit more freedom to talk to interesting folks from all over. Thanks for the support & the love.
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02:0124/08/2020
#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
05:13 - Richard Feynman
09:41 - Learning deeply vs broadly
13:56 - Telling a story with visualizations
18:43 - Topology
23:52 - Intuition about exponential growth
32:28 - Elon Musk's exponential view of the world
40:09 - SpaceX and space exploration
45:28 - Origins of the Internet
49:50 - Does teaching on YouTube get lonely?
54:31 - Daily routine
1:00:20 - Social media
1:10:38 - Online education in a time of COVID
1:27:03 - Joe Rogan moving to Spotify
1:32:09 - Neural networks
1:38:30 - GPT-3
1:46:52 - Manim
1:51:01 - Python
1:56:21 - Theory of everything
2:03:53 - Meaning of life
02:08:5323/08/2020
#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
05:34 - Role of death in life
22:57 - Jordan Peterson
53:02 - Humans are both selfish and cooperative
56:57 - Civilization collapse
1:10:07 - Meditating on your mortality
1:16:10 - Kierkegaard and Heidegger
1:33:25 - Elon Musk
1:36:56 - Thinking deeply about death
1:45:53 - Religion
1:56:59 - Consciousness
2:03:39 - Why is Ernest Becker not better known
2:07:09 - AI and mortality
2:21:07 - Academia should welcome renegade thinkers
2:36:33 - Book recommendations
2:43:23 - Advice for young people
2:48:17 - Meaning of life
02:56:5120/08/2020
#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
05:32 - Falling in love with the stars
09:55 - Are we alone in the universe?
15:27 - Seager equation for number of habitable planets
27:48 - Exoplanets
34:44 - Earth-like exoplanets
40:43 - Intelligent life
52:34 - Number of planets per star
55:09 - Space exploration
57:36 - Traveling to Proxima Centauri
1:00:52 - Starshade
1:07:34 - Using the sun as a gravitational lens
1:09:44 - Starshot
1:12:45 - Rogue planets
1:15:44 - The Smallest Lights in the Universe
1:30:15 - Book recommendations
1:37:48 - Advice for a young person
1:39:29 - Meaning of life
01:42:0216/08/2020
#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta. From the early work on Hierarchical temporal memory to Recursive Cortical Networks to today, Dileep's always sought to engineer intelligence that is closely inspired by the human brain.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
4:50 - Building a model of the brain
17:11 - Visual cortex
27:50 - Probabilistic graphical models
31:35 - Encoding information in the brain
36:56 - Recursive Cortical Network
51:09 - Solving CAPTCHAs algorithmically
1:06:48 - Hype around brain-inspired AI
1:18:21 - How does the brain learn?
1:21:32 - Perception and cognition
1:25:43 - Open problems in brain-inspired AI
1:30:33 - GPT-3
1:40:41 - Memory
1:45:08 - Neuralink
1:51:32 - Consciousness
1:57:59 - Book recommendations
2:06:49 - Meaning of life
02:10:3314/08/2020
#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He works on control of robots in interesting, complicated, underactuated, stochastic, difficult to model situations.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
04:29 - Passive dynamic walking
09:40 - Animal movement
13:34 - Control vs Dynamics
15:49 - Bipedal walking
20:56 - Running barefoot
33:01 - Think rigorously with machine learning
44:05 - DARPA Robotics Challenge
1:07:14 - When will a robot become UFC champion
1:18:32 - Black Mirror Robot Dog
1:34:01 - Robot control
1:47:00 - Simulating robots
2:00:33 - Home robotics
2:03:40 - Soft robotics
2:07:25 - Underactuated robotics
2:20:42 - Touch
2:28:55 - Book recommendations
2:40:08 - Advice to young people
2:44:20 - Meaning of life
02:49:1409/08/2020
#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
03:54 - Human genome
17:47 - Sources of knowledge
29:15 - Free will
33:26 - Simulation
35:17 - Biological and computing
50:10 - Genome-wide evolutionary signatures
56:54 - Evolution of COVID-19
1:02:59 - Are viruses intelligent?
1:12:08 - Humans vs viruses
1:19:39 - Engineered pandemics
1:23:23 - Immune system
1:33:22 - Placebo effect
1:35:39 - Human genome source code
1:44:40 - Mutation
1:51:46 - Deep learning
1:58:08 - Neuralink
2:07:07 - Language
2:15:19 - Meaning of life
02:29:5131/07/2020
#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic confinement of plasmas seeking to enable fusion reactions, which is the energy source of the stars, to be used for practical energy production. Current nuclear reactors are based on fission as we discuss. Ian has also written on the philosophy of science and the relationship between science and religion.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
05:32 - Nuclear physics and plasma physics
08:00 - Fusion energy
35:22 - Nuclear weapons
42:06 - Existential risks
50:29 - Personal journey in religion
56:27 - What is God like?
1:01:34 - Scientism
1:04:21 - Atheism
1:06:39 - Not knowing
1:09:57 - Faith
1:13:46 - The value of loyalty and love
1:23:26 - Why is there suffering in the world
1:35:08 - AGI
1:40:27 - Consciousness
1:48:14 - Simulation
1:52:20 - Adam and Eve
1:54:57 - Meaning of life
02:01:4329/07/2020
#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the Turing Award for his research in the theory of algorithms, including the development of the Edmonds–Karp algorithm for solving the maximum flow problem on networks, Hopcroft–Karp algorithm for finding maximum cardinality matchings in bipartite graphs, and his landmark paper in complexity theory called "Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems", in which he proved 21 problems to be NP-complete. This paper was probably the most important catalyst in the explosion of interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P vs NP problem.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
03:50 - Geometry
09:46 - Visualizing an algorithm
13:00 - A beautiful algorithm
18:06 - Don Knuth and geeks
22:06 - Early days of computers
25:53 - Turing Test
30:05 - Consciousness
33:22 - Combinatorial algorithms
37:42 - Edmonds-Karp algorithm
40:22 - Algorithmic complexity
50:25 - P=NP
54:25 - NP-Complete problems
1:10:29 - Proving P=NP
1:12:57 - Stable marriage problem
1:20:32 - Randomized algorithms
1:33:23 - Can a hard problem be easy in practice?
1:43:57 - Open problems in theoretical computer science
1:46:21 - A strange idea in complexity theory
1:50:49 - Machine learning
1:56:26 - Bioinformatics
2:00:37 - Memory of Richard's father
02:08:0026/07/2020
#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision
Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over 180,000 times and has mentored many world-class researchers in computer science.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
03:17 - Computer vision is hard
10:05 - Tesla Autopilot
21:20 - Human brain vs computers
23:14 - The general problem of computer vision
29:09 - Images vs video in computer vision
37:47 - Benchmarks in computer vision
40:06 - Active learning
45:34 - From pixels to semantics
52:47 - Semantic segmentation
57:05 - The three R's of computer vision
1:02:52 - End-to-end learning in computer vision
1:04:24 - 6 lessons we can learn from children
1:08:36 - Vision and language
1:12:30 - Turing test
1:16:17 - Open problems in computer vision
1:24:49 - AGI
1:35:47 - Pick the right problem
01:42:0421/07/2020
#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
04:24 - UNIX early days
22:09 - Unix philosophy
31:54 - Is programming art or science?
35:18 - AWK
42:03 - Programming setup
46:39 - History of programming languages
52:48 - C programming language
58:44 - Go language
1:01:57 - Learning new programming languages
1:04:57 - Javascript
1:08:16 - Variety of programming languages
1:10:30 - AMPL
1:18:01 - Graph theory
1:22:20 - AI in 1964
1:27:50 - Future of AI
1:29:47 - Moore's law
1:32:54 - Computers in our world
1:40:37 - Life
01:43:3718/07/2020
#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, and deep RL algorithms.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
03:05 - State-of-the-art robots vs humans
16:13 - Robotics may help us understand intelligence
22:49 - End-to-end learning in robotics
27:01 - Canonical problem in robotics
31:44 - Commonsense reasoning in robotics
34:41 - Can we solve robotics through learning?
44:55 - What is reinforcement learning?
1:06:36 - Tesla Autopilot
1:08:15 - Simulation in reinforcement learning
1:13:46 - Can we learn gravity from data?
1:16:03 - Self-play
1:17:39 - Reward functions
1:27:01 - Bitter lesson by Rich Sutton
1:32:13 - Advice for students interesting in AI
1:33:55 - Meaning of life
01:37:5914/07/2020