Turing Award Winner: Early AI, LLM Predictions, Causality | Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl is a Turing Award winner and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and causal reasoning. We talked about how he got into science, his major breakthroughs and his predictions for AI today.• ...
27 Jul 1h 27min
Creator of OCaml: Functional Programming, Formal Verification, Programming Languages | Xavier Leroy
Xavier Leroy (creator of OCaml) is an expert in compilers, formal verification of software and functional programming. This interview should be an approachable resource if you're curious about formal ...
20 Jul 1h 24min
Turing Award Winner: TPU vs GPU vs CPU, Computer Architecture, RISC vs CISC | David Patterson
David Patterson is a Turing Award winner famous for his contributions to computer architecture. I interviewed him about his past work, thoughts on GPU/TPUs and career advice from half a century of exp...
13 Jul 59min
Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman
Martin Hellman is a Turing Award winner who helped to invent public-key cryptography against the NSA's wishes. I interviewed him all about his work and why it broke the law at the time.• My ergonomic ...
6 Jul 1h 1min
MIT Complexity Theorist: Why You Can Do Better Than “Optimal” On Leetcode & SAT | Ryan Williams
Ryan Williams is a professor at MIT and the winner of the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. I interviewed him all about his work starting by asking him a popular Leetcode question (3 SUM).C...
29 Jun 1h 12min
OpenAI Eng & Dev Tools Founder: How Software Engineering Is Changing | Charlie Marsh
Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the Python devtool startup that was acquired by OpenAI. I inteviewed him about how software engineering is changing and learnings from starting his own company ...
22 Jun 1h 22min
Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Land a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg
Vlad Feinberg is Google DeepMind’s pre-training area lead and I asked him all about how to land a job at a frontier lab like Google DeepMind, Anthropic or OpenAI.• My ergonomic keyboard project I ment...
15 Jun 1h 4min
Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones
Simon Peyton Jones is the co-creator of Haskell (pure functional programming language) and I interviewed him about functional programming, why it matters, and his thoughts on other programming languag...
8 Jun 1h 27min
