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
Turing Award Winner: P vs NP, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Quantum Computation | Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson is the only person in history to have won both a Turing Award (computer science) and Abel Prize (math). I interviewed him all about his field.• My ergonomic keyboard project I mentioned,...
1 Jun 2h 15min
Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Eng: Building Great Systems and Advice for the AI Era | James Cowling
James Cowling is the CTO at Convex and was previously the most senior engineer at Dropbox. We discussed technical details of his past projects, simplicity vs complexity, and career advice given where ...
25 Mai 2h 1min
Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of the C++ programming language and a former researcher at Bell Labs. We talked about what Bell Labs was like, programming language design, and interesting anecdotes f...
18 Mai 1h 59min
Harvard Professor: CS50, What Matters More Than CS, Lecturing Well | David J Malan
David Malan is a Harvard professor known for turning CS50 into a popular online computer science course. We discussed the story behind CS50, how to lecture well, and how AI is changing CS education in...
11 Mai 1h 3min
PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White
John Myles White recently left his role as a director of engineering at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) so we spoke freely about promo culture, how big tech has changed, and how his career grew.𝗣𝗼...
4 Mai 43min
Turing Award Winner: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems | Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov is a Turing Award winner known for her work in programming languages and distributed systems. We discussed the major problems she solved in her career, stories about Dijkstra, getting r...
27 Apr 34min
