How Transformers Work and Why a 2016 Paper With a Meme-Like Title Contributed to the AI Revolution with Andrej Karpathy and Lex Fridman

Transformers with Andrej Karpathy and Lex Fridman

November 2022

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Nuclear Fusion Energy

Nuclear fusion has been in the news and there are heavily funded startups pursuing different approaches.

In the video above, Lex Fridman discusses fusion energy with Dennis Whyte, a nuclear scientist at MIT and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

And, below 60 Minutes goes behind the scenes of the recent milestone for nuclear fusion at Livermore Lab in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nuclear Fusion

60 Minutes

January 2023

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Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram with Mr Beast

Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram

with Mr Beast and Lex Fridman

January 2023

0:00 - 1 billion views and 1 billion subscribers 5:46 - Mortality 13:08 - Improving YouTube 15:31 - Twitter 20:19 - Brand deals 23:29 - Audience retention 28:08 - Hiring 35:46 - Talking to the camera 40:47 - Brainstorming 53:08 - TikTok 1:02:12 - Advice for beginners 1:06:28 - How to grow on YouTube 1:14:12 - Elon Musk and Twitter 1:15:37 - 10 million dollars vs 10 million subscribers 1:22:55 - Going to Antarctica 1:24:40 - Process of making a video 1:29:16 - Overcoming depression 1:40:20 - Building a business 1:48:15 - MrBeast Burger and Feastables 1:52:20 - Creating video games 1:56:29 - Making billions of dollars 1:59:03 - Money vs Happiness 2:05:51 - Mental health 2:12:29 - Love 2:14:37 - Legacy

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Deep Dive Into the Metaverse with Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman

Mark Zuckerberg on Meta, Facebook, Instagram and the Metaverse

Lex Fridman Podcast | February 2022

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Conversation with Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin

Conversation with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Lex Fridman

June 2021

1:19 - Shiba Inu story 18:35 - Regulation 22:48 - Crime 27:54 - Proof of stake vs proof of work 40:44 - Miner extractable value 46:20 - Scaling 47:43 - Bitcoin blocksize wars 53:51 - Hard fork vs soft fork 57:34 - Craig Wright 1:04:18 - Scaling: Sharding 1:11:07 - Scaling: Rollups 1:19:30 - Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies 1:27:11 - Merging PoS and PoW chains 1:36:49 - Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents 1:45:35 - Bitcoin vs Ethereum 1:51:30 - Dogecoin 1:57:38 - Elon Musk 2:00:15 - Chainlink 2:03:35 - Charles Hoskinson and Cardano 2:11:09 - AI safety 2:16:08 - NFTs 2:18:58 - Scams 2:28:34 - Longevity 2:37:55 - Does death give meaning to life? 2:43:38 - Lex and Vitalik speak Russian 2:47:29 - Meaning of life 2:52:48 - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and WWII

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