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probably the Lex Fridman podcast interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdBfsXbST8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE1R8FYUJm0

the second one is definitely where the last paragraph in the article is from. Weird that the interview is dated 2021-09-09 and the post is 2020-04-30?

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Wow, Lex has gotten some of the greats on his podcast. I should probably give it a go. The few episodes I've seen were more shallow than I was looking for as an engineer, but I assumed that was because he's helping bring these interviews and ideas to a wider audience.

if you're looking for more technical ones the two interviews he did with Crhis Lattner on compilers are great. Francois Chollet and Schmidhuber and other ML related interviews were good also.

But he does seem to be doing less and less of the scientific interviews which is a little bit of a shame given the unique access he seems to have.

They sometimes go deep, but that is more at the discretion of the interviewee than Lex. Lex is usually asking questions about topics he has only tangencial knowledge in but is the expertise of the interviewee.

The Chris Lattner episodes are great, and James Gosling had some fun stories in there, and Kernighan had a good interview as well.

Lex and Joscha Bach episodes were fascinating to me as well.

And he always asks them the question "What is life?"

He also did an interview for the Web of Stories project which is available on YouTube and has his thoughts on his life and various other curious topics.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1Jq...

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