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George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by WaffleIronMaker »

WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #169
YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #153

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Lex Fridma's podcasts are as good as his guests. If you want "hard-hitting" listent to his interviews with Vladimir Vapnik (two of them), Yoshua Bengio, Peter Norvig, Judea Pearl, Juergen Schmidhuber, Francois Chollet, Rodney Brooks, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russel - people who are in a position to speak and think critically and whose salaries and reputation do not depend on saying what everyone wants to hear. And w…

I did enjoy Lex's episode with Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown [1], in which Lex attempted to ask softball questions, such as "isn't e^(pi*i)+1=0" the most beautiful equation in math?", to which Grant responded along the lines, "No, it's only considered beautiful because of our poor notation". Overall, I enjoyed Grant's answers to his questions. His podcasts really are as good as his guests. [1] https://www.youtube.co…

oops, I meant: https://youtu.be/U_lKUK2MCsg

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Post by mindentropy »

ge96 wrote: post #163
mindentropy wrote: post #161

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It is very evident in his videos that he is trying to show off. There is a lot of code snippets that he copies and lots of pasting code which is kind of boring to watch. In fact I really like to watch your videos as it deals with a lot of low level stuff.

I remember when Covid was new and he was messing around protein folding.

Yes. I have a watched a lot of his videos which I usually keep in the background. He dabbles into a lot of stuff from FPGAs in embedded to COQ (Formal language theorem prover) but there is not much depth in his videos. In a few weeks he would jump to something different again.

Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by RealityVoid »

29athrowaway wrote: post #4

George Hotz is an interesting person. He has a YouTube channel with coding sessions and a Twitch channel that's worth watching. The guy sometimes goes on 10+ hour long livecoding marathons.

Afaik, he did not do one of those live coding sessions in a while. i agree, it is _highly_ entertaining.
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