- 09-30#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:50Existentialism
- 26:58Nietzsche and nihilism
- 44:35Dostoevsky
- 1:00:02Camus and suicide
- 1:18:31The Big Lebowski
- 1:26:20Ayn Rand
- 1:36:28Evil
- 1:47:03Heidegger
- 1:58:43Hubert Dreyfus
- 2:04:35Moby Dick
- 2:15:51David Foster Wallace
- 2:36:03Can AI make art?
- 2:55:46Meaning of life
- 09-27#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
- 00:00Introduction
- 06:48What is beautiful about mathematics?
- 15:37How difficult should math really be?
- 23:56Students giving up on math
- 35:17Improving math education in schools
- 45:14Inspiring mathematical creativity
- 1:03:00youcubed
- 1:07:20Best methods for studying math
- 1:27:54Advice for young people
- 09-26#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
- 00:00Introduction
- 05:56How are processors made?
- 25:15Are engineers or physicists more important
- 27:43Super-conductivity
- 43:31Computation
- 48:07Computation vs communication
- 51:48Electrons for computation and light for communication
- 1:02:32Neuromorphic computing
- 1:27:23What is NIST?
- 1:30:41Implementing super-conductivity
- 1:38:20The future of neuromorphic computing
- 1:57:54Loop neurons
- 2:04:09Machine learning
- 2:18:36Cosmological evolution
- 2:25:44Cosmological natural selection
- 2:43:05Life in the universe
- 2:50:52The rare Earth hypothesis
- 09-23#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:06Early programming
- 28:47SciPy
- 45:41Open source
- 57:23NumPy
- 1:34:39Guido van Rossum
- 1:46:57Efficiency
- 1:55:49Objects
- 2:02:47Numba
- 2:11:53Anaconda
- 2:16:20Conda
- 2:31:56Quansight Labs
- 2:35:32OpenTeams
- 2:43:05GitHub
- 2:48:35Marketing
- 2:53:13Great programming
- 3:04:03Hiring
- 3:08:01Advice for young people
- 09-21#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
- 00:00Introduction
- 10:08What is Judo?
- 17:55Travis’s signature throw
- 23:20Fundamentals
- 25:12Throws
- 38:04Gripping
- 46:37Weight cutting
- 1:15:50Injuries
- 1:19:50Jiu-Jitsu
- 1:23:33Lex on his judo competition experience
- 1:26:58Levels of mastery
- 1:40:09Matches
- 1:54:10Travis inspired Lex to practice judo
- 2:00:24London 2012 Olympic games
- 2:42:012016 Olympic games
- 3:16:24Mixed team competition
- 3:23:50The value of epic throws
- 3:27:17Shohei Ono
- 3:33:39Chess
- 3:38:42The coach
- 3:45:18Advice for young people
- 09-20#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:12Beauty in neural networks
- 11:31Darwin and evolution
- 17:16The origin of intelligence
- 23:58Explorations in cognition
- 30:02Learning representations by back-propagating errors
- 36:27Dave Rumelhart and cognitive modeling
- 49:30Connectionism
- 1:12:23Geoffrey Hinton
- 1:14:19Learning in a neural network
- 1:31:11Mathematics & reality
- 1:38:19Modeling intelligence
- 1:48:57Noam Chomsky and linguistic cognition
- 2:03:18Advice for young people
- 2:14:26Psychiatry and exploring the mind
- 2:27:04Legacy
- 2:32:53Meaning of life
- 09-15#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:39What is Cyc?
- 15:45How to form a knowledge base of the universe
- 26:11How to train an AI knowledge base
- 30:32Global consistency versus local consistency
- 54:53Automated reasoning
- 1:00:33Direct uses of AI and machine learning
- 1:13:11The semantic web
- 1:23:44Tools to help Cyc interpret data
- 1:32:54The most beautiful idea about Cyc
- 1:38:53Love and consciousness in AI
- 1:45:52The greatness of Marvin Minsky
- 1:50:46Is Cyc just a beautiful dream?
- 1:55:31What is OpenCyc and how was it born?
- 2:01:21The open source community and OpenCyc
- 2:11:48The inference problem
- 2:13:31Cyc’s programming language
- 2:21:05Ontological engineering
- 2:28:30Do machines think?
- 2:37:15Death and consciousness
- 2:47:16What would you say to AI?
- 2:51:52Advice to young people
- 2:53:48Mortality
- 09-11#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11170 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 08:52September 11, 2001
- 36:48Falling man
- 40:58Ground Zero
- 47:1720 for 20
- 50:27What it means to be a great firefighter
- 53:11Why did you become a firefighter?
- 55:00Tally Ho
- 57:46New view of the world
- 1:05:16Empathy
- 1:09:49Leukemia
- 1:25:18New York City
- 1:31:28John Feal
- 1:44:57Conspiracy theories
- 1:53:45Faith
- 1:55:44Modern communication
- 2:00:11Hand written letters
- 2:14:02Love
- 2:25:45War in Afghanistan
- 2:37:24Brave stories from 9/11
- 09-09#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life148 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:02First programs
- 30:26Literate programming
- 33:35Beauty in programming
- 39:30OpenAI
- 48:41Optimization
- 54:46Consciousness
- 1:03:29Conway’s game of life
- 1:16:16Stable marriage
- 1:19:35Richard Feynman
- 1:30:29Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm
- 1:40:02Hardest problem
- 1:57:41Open source
- 2:02:54Favorite symbols
- 2:12:27Productivity
- 2:20:08Meaning of life
- 09-06#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI119 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 08:04What is reality?
- 12:17Turing machines
- 13:35Simulating our universe
- 19:49Video games and other immersive experiences
- 23:37Death and consciousness
- 32:08Designing human-centric AI
- 33:42Empathy with robots
- 37:33Social media incentives
- 49:53Data dignity
- 57:26Jack Dorsey and Twitter
- 1:09:10Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
- 1:13:51Government overreach and freedom
- 1:24:06GitHub and TikTok
- 1:26:16The Autodidactic Universe
- 1:31:07Humans and the mystery of music
- 1:37:17Defining moments
- 1:48:03Mortality
- 1:49:56The meaning of life
- 09-03#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics151 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 07:33First robots
- 28:58Brains and computers
- 1:01:47Self-driving cars
- 1:21:57Believing in the impossible
- 1:32:47Predictions
- 1:43:49iRobot
- 2:11:11Sharing an office with AI experts
- 2:23:21Advice for young people
- 2:27:07Meaning of life
- 09-01#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines216 分钟
- 00:00Introduction
- 10:24Microbiology by numbers
- 15:47From bacteria to an organism
- 23:46AlphaFold 2
- 27:44Simulating an evolutionary arms race
- 53:11The most terrifying virus
- 1:14:54SARS-CoV-2
- 1:29:38Coronaviruses and Influenza. What’s the difference?
- 1:35:45Vaccines
- 1:41:43Lex on his reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine shot
- 1:47:39Modern vaccines
- 1:52:39How does mRNA vaccine work?
- 1:55:26Are mRNA vaccines safe?
- 2:21:52Lex on trust in authority
- 2:36:59Ivermectin
- 2:43:39Hydroxychloroquine
- 2:48:22Variants and mutations
- 2:55:20Testing
- 3:03:27How does COVID-19 spread?
- 3:06:37Masks
- 3:15:05Bret Weinstein vs Sam Harris
- 3:18:39This Week in Virology
- 3:28:19Advice for young people
- 3:30:42Meaning of life