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What was your handle on Twitter so I can post?

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It’s alright, no research needed, I got the answers.

Lex Fridman is a Russian-American who was teaching Artificial Intelligence as a grad student (like, entry level stuff, neural networks and deep learning) at MIT. His lectures were posted online and he ended up invited on Joe Rogan to talk about it and was a hit because he’s also some kind of martial arts black belt.

After that he started his own podcast largely talking to science nerds like physicists (Max Tegmark) and inventors of popular programming languages such as Python (Guido van Rossum) and Swift (Chris Lattner, to whom I owe a beer).

As happens with many podcasts, his guests got more and more high profile over the course of 3-4 years, and that’s how he ended up having Kanye on.

I don’t rly know who the f*ck Tate is tbh.

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