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What Lex Fridman says about longevity & aging

Everything Lex Fridman and guests said about longevity & aging across 13 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Says AI experts polled in 2022 now predict ~2030 for the Turing test, finally converging on his 1999 prediction of 2029.
00:03:08Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Claims he would believe a system that validly passes a multi-hour Turing test is conscious, but does not believe today's large language models are.
00:08:24Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Cites the Moderna mRNA vaccine as proof simulated biology works, saying the actual sequence design took only two days.
00:22:56Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Describes building an AI from everything his late father wrote so he could 'have a conversation' with him.
00:56:11Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Discusses paying a few dollars to download a replicant 'best friend Ray' and the legal rights such copies would need.
01:11:49Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
States his goal of reaching longevity escape velocity by the end of the 2020s and admits he is afraid of his own mortality.
01:26:58Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Defines God not as a person in the sky but as the emergence of consciousness and love from basic particles.
01:23:50Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
The Moderna vaccine team simulated billions of mRNA sequences to find the best candidates, and Kurzweil notes the 10-month timeline was mostly testing.
00:23:26Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Computing price-performance has grown exponentially for 80 years (1939-2021), surviving world wars and recessions.
00:27:33Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
The compute used to train the largest AI models has been doubling roughly every six months, faster than transistor scaling.
00:30:07Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
In a poll, 70% thought extreme poverty had gotten worse when it had actually dropped 50%; only 1% gave the correct answer.
00:46:18Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Global life expectancy rose from 48 in 1900 to over 80 today.
00:47:20Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Kurzweil credits the opposable thumb, not just the brain, as a key reason humans built technology while bigger-brained whales and elephants did not.
00:37:26Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
His great-grandmother founded what he says was the first school in Europe to offer higher education for girls, established in 1868.
01:00:54Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
His creativity tip: imagine the thing you want to invent already exists and reverse-engineer how you built it.
01:04:34Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Argues a civilization only centuries ahead of us would be doing galaxy-wide engineering we'd see, so visible silence suggests we may be alone or in a simulation.
01:21:43Ray Kurzweil · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2022
Johnson self-funded the first $53 million of Kernel and pitched 228 investors before one said yes.
00:19:18Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson reveals he and Elon Musk explored working together early on, and Musk considered joining Kernel before founding Neuralink.
01:24:14Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson made a 'bet the company' move, shifting Kernel from invasive to non-invasive brain technology.
01:26:20Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson admits he suffered chronic depression for 10 years and 'desperately wanted lights to be off.'
00:50:00Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He describes his 13-year marriage ending and leaving his religion as the darkest period of his life.
01:43:42Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Bryan tracks over 200 biomarkers every 90 days and lets the data, not his conscious mind, build his shopping list.
02:14:42Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
On Kilimanjaro, deathly ill with blood oxygen around 50%, he summited at 5am and credits Eminem for getting him through.
02:18:18Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Kernel internally flags 'human intuition alert' to stop relying on guesses and trust data-driven discovery instead.
00:23:25Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Kernel Flow has 52 modules, each with one laser and six sensors, yielding over a thousand channels of brain activity.
00:05:48Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson eats once a day around 8:30am, including a 'super veggie' pudding of broccoli, cauliflower, and a 'nutty pudding.'
01:51:52Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He reports a resting heart rate as low as 42 during sleep when his eating is timed correctly.
01:50:51Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
His testing regimen includes blood panels, microbiome tests, DNA methylation, and neurotransmitter analysis.
00:39:36Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Kernel has nearly 100 employees, including roughly 36-37 PhDs in specialized fields.
01:31:03Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson became the #1 credit-card salesperson out of 400 nationwide while working part-time on another startup.
01:37:55Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
PayPal's margins were about 3% per transaction versus a typical payments company's few cents.
01:38:58Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Johnson calls 'Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea' his favorite book ever, inspiring his 'zeroth principle' thinking.
01:06:34Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He considers sleep a contender for the most powerful health intervention in existence, tied directly to willpower.
01:56:32Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
He notes biology may soon let us replace or regenerate every organ except the brain.
02:00:09Bryan Johnson · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2021
Balaji's core thesis: the fundamental flaw of modern government is that you can't peacefully start new opt-in countries the way you start a company or a currency.
00:29:03Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Argues real names are 'state names' that facilitated 20th-century genocides via lists, and that pseudonymity is itself a form of decentralization.
01:08:30Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Claims Wikipedia is 'a defamation engine' on political topics, structurally biased toward 'white Western liberals,' even as he praises it on technical topics.
02:36:50Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Reveals he was considered for a senior FDA role but believes it's easier to start a new country than to reform the FDA.
03:25:37Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Asserts the FDA's drug lag and refusal to allow COVID challenge trials cost roughly a million American lives.
04:27:00Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Floats 'genomic reincarnation', synthesizing a person's full chromosome set to print out a clone funded by their crypto community's karma.
05:05:58Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Sci-fi scenario: a future where the US loses to non-white Chinese communist nationalists abroad and faces a Bitcoin-maximalist 'financial secession' at home.
05:38:07Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Argues 'woke capital' weaponizes ideology for profit, making the bias case against centralized AI a cover for charging $99 per use.
07:01:07Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
The episode runs over 7 hours, making it Lex Fridman's longest conversation at the time.
00:01:04Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Most countries are small: only 14 nations have over 100 million people, while many have fewer residents than large social networks.
02:06:52Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Benford's law (the 'first digit law') states leading digits in real data sets skew small, ~30% start with 1, and is used to detect fraud.
02:19:35Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Banting and Best went from idea to a Nobel Prize and continent-scale insulin production within a couple of years, 'Pharma at the speed of software.'
03:38:05Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Quotes a Genentech CEO comparing the FDA to a Brazilian soldier pointing a machine gun at the pharmaceutical industry: 'they own you body and soul.'
04:04:34Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Cites a real 2004 case of a child with a myostatin mutation born extraordinarily muscular, 'real-life X-Men.'
05:10:42Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
China built over 23 million gross tons of shipping in 2020 versus ~70,000 tons in US yards, a 100-to-300x ratio.
05:41:45Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
In pre-1978 China capitalism was punishable by death; a farmer was reportedly told even the teeth in his head belonged to the collective.
06:17:00Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Pravda, the Soviet newspaper, literally means 'truth', echoing the NYT's 'The truth is...' ad campaign.
07:27:03Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Balaji predicts that by ~2030 the majority of English speakers online will be Indian, 'they speak with an accent but they don't type with an accent.'
07:38:27Balaji Srinivasan · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022
Goertzel argues a benevolent AGI solves all other problems because it can rapidly become massively smarter than humans.
00:46:41Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He recounts originating and 'launching the term AGI upon the world' while editing a book, without ever loving the term.
00:47:12Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He flatly says GPT-3 understands nothing: 'he's a complete idiot but brilliant idiot.'
02:11:24Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He claims current deep neural net architectures will never get anywhere near AGI.
01:36:14Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He reveals Hanson Robotics deliberately keeps people in Sophia's illusion because telling them how it works doesn't change their belief.
03:08:46Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He describes a teleoperated Philip K. Dick robot experiment where people still believed 'the spirit of Phil' was animating it.
03:09:18Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He states death is simply bad and his goal is to abolish 'the plague of involuntary death.'
03:42:37Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He envisions making multiple copies of himself, including one that fuses with superhuman AGI and one kept human.
04:02:26Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
His friend Hugo de Garis proposed SIPI: that super-intelligences shrink to subatomic scale, so quantum randomness may be their thoughts.
00:07:17Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
Goertzel named his child 'Qorxi' (Quantum Organized Reward eXpanding Intelligence), beating Elon Musk to a strange baby name.
00:52:11Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
Shane Legg, co-founder of DeepMind, got 'his head full of AGI' working at Goertzel's company Webmind in New Zealand.
01:01:32Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
New Zealand AI grant funding went toward predicting the menstrual cycles of cows rather than military uses.
01:02:05Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
Goertzel notes Vladimir Putin and corporate CEOs now invoke AGI, a term once reserved for 'crazed Mavericks.'
01:06:47Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He holds 'extraordinary negative respect for Ayn Rand,' having kept long-lived fruit flies at an Ayn Rand elementary school.
00:36:44Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He ran an experiment having Sophia's chatbot and Facebook's Transformer chatbot converse for weeks to generate training data.
03:01:57Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He warns 23andMe licensed its pooled DNA database exclusively to GlaxoSmithKline.
03:30:04Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
Goertzel describes himself as a panpsychist who views even a light bulb or quark as having consciousness.
04:02:57Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
He ends with his own words: 'our language for describing emotions is very crude, that's what music is for.'
04:08:40Ben Goertzel · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2020
Scott Kelly's telomeres got LONGER in space, the opposite of what was expected, and this has now held across 59 astronauts studied.
00:50:09Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Returning to Earth's gravity after a year was far harder on the body than being in space; Kelly's stress markers spiked to levels never seen before.
00:51:11Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
NASA's official stance is that there has never been sex in space, though Mason suspects humans are 'very predictable' about it.
01:05:38Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Becoming an astronaut is no longer years of impossible training and selection; for commercial flights it is 'frankly just a question of funds.'
01:31:34Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Mason reframes a multi-generation starship as no different from Earth: 'earth is still a spaceship traveling out of space.'
01:57:21Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Bacteria and fungi on the ISS have mutated so much they are now literally new species, one named after a Cornell donor.
02:07:42Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Mason says he would take a one-way trip to Mars later in life and consider dying there an honor.
02:50:34Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
There is no scientific collaboration between the US and China in space; NASA grants are congressionally mandated to forbid working with anyone in China.
01:24:48Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Astronauts absorb cosmic radiation equivalent to three or four chest X-rays every single day in space.
00:52:13Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Humans still carry the broken 'GULO' pseudogene for making our own vitamin C, lost 10-20 million years ago, which could in theory be reactivated.
01:02:31Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Mars lava tubes could shelter habitats from radiation, and a JPL helicopter mission is being planned to explore one.
01:00:25Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Sending anything to space costs about $10,000 per kilogram, and hardware must survive destructive, fire, and vibration testing.
01:37:13Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Oral herpes commonly reactivates during spaceflight as the immune system is perturbed in microgravity.
01:41:52Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Lake Hillier in Australia is a bubblegum-pink salt lake colored by halophilic algae and bacteria that die below ~10-15% salinity.
02:05:35Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
'Chloro-humans': embedding chloroplasts in skin could let people photosynthesize, but you'd need about two tennis courts of skin for a day's energy.
01:59:25Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
AI already out-diagnoses pathologists on some cancers; '10 slides to 10 pathologists' can yield '11 different diagnoses.'
02:33:34Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Earth scores a perfect 1.0 on the Earth Similarity Index; Mars sits around 0.7, far from ideal but relatively close.
01:08:14Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Mars soil contains perchlorates that are toxic to plants, but water exists nearly everywhere just a few feet under the surface.
01:11:54Chris Mason · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2022
Koller estimates that for the majority of major diseases our understanding of mechanisms is 'really close to zero,' with Alzheimer's closer to zero than to 80.
00:04:43Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
She argues Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, and type 2 diabetes are not single diseases but heterogeneous collections of mechanisms, like breast cancer.
00:05:15Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Insitro's contrarian thesis: instead of doing ML on whatever data exists, deliberately engineer data sets designed for machine learning.
00:11:37Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Her interest in drug discovery was catalyzed by her father's death from an autoimmune lung disease for which prednisone was the only treatment.
00:14:46Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
She explains 'disease in a dish' models, noting mice don't naturally get Alzheimer's, diabetes, atherosclerosis, autism, or schizophrenia, so animal cures rarely translate.
00:18:26Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
She warns many self-taught ML practitioners skip foundations and end up running models that are simply wrong without realizing it.
00:49:50Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Koller says today's ML can't match even a human toddler's flexibility and is not worried about machines taking over to gain power.
01:00:57Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
She argues gene editing and CRISPR are at least as dangerous as machine learning if used badly, e.g. creating nasty viruses.
01:05:10Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
For most non-childhood diseases, the risk of contracting them rises exponentially every year from about age 40.
00:06:53Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Koller's health-span aspiration is living to the biblical 120 in high quality of life rather than literal immortality.
00:09:33Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Reverting a skin cell back to stem-cell status is now 'almost industrialized,' done by contract research organizations.
00:21:02Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
She estimates only about five to ten thousand induced pluripotent stem cell lines existed in the world at the time.
00:22:07Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Polygenic risk scores can show disease-risk differences of a factor of 10 or 12 between the highest and lowest deciles.
00:25:18Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
The first Stanford MOOCs launched in fall 2011 and drew about 100,000+ students each within weeks, sparked by a viral New York Times article.
00:38:53Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Coursera found video modules of 5 to 7 minutes work better than 15-minute ones for busy adult learners.
00:43:33Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
A/B testing online showed a female instructor role model can shift the gender balance of students in STEM courses.
00:44:35Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Koller notes neural networks often grow more confident and more wrong the further inputs stray from training data, a danger in medical diagnosis.
00:56:19Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Inspired by a Steve Jobs quote, she says life's goal should be to 'make a dent in the universe' and leave the world better.
01:09:27Daphne Koller · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Friston argues there are principled reasons NOT to map every neuron, comparing it to studying thermodynamics by examining individual gas molecules.
00:03:10Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
He compares controlling the brain via BCI to controlling the weather, suggesting aspirational sci-fi BCIs may never truly work.
00:39:22Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
He reframes the question from 'what is alive' to 'what does it mean to exist,' calling it existential rather than living.
00:46:46Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Friston introduces the Markov blanket as the mathematical surface separating a thing's internal and external states.
00:57:18Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
He claims the only way you can ever change the universe is by moving, and doing so non-randomly is what makes you alive.
01:04:32Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
He ties consciousness to the capacity to plan and countenance the future, drawing lines between a virus, an ant, and a self-aware being.
01:09:50Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Friston argues self-awareness emerges only because you live in a social world of others like you and must infer it's 'me, not you.'
01:20:55Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Roughly only eight percent of all currency in the world is physical money; the other 92 percent exists only digitally.
00:01:03Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
The farther apart two parts of the brain are, the less likely they are to be directly wired together.
00:08:50Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
The brain's heavy computation happens on the gray-matter surface, while the interior is fatty white-matter wiring.
00:24:39Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Brain metabolism must be driven in the moment; active brain regions need blood within a couple of seconds.
00:25:44Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
'Blobology' is a real fond term for the study of activation blobs on brain maps, and the math behind it uses Euler characteristics.
00:29:54Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Variational free energy is mathematically the same as the negative evidence lower bound (ELBO) used in machine learning.
00:44:34Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Friston argues machine learning sidesteps the movement problem by assuming it can see all the data via big data.
01:07:10Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
The philosophical concept of vagueness (when does a pile of sand become a pile) complicates drawing a line for consciousness.
01:11:25Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Friston's closing words: your arm moves because you predict it will, and your motor system seeks to minimize prediction error.
01:28:42Karl Friston · Lex Fridman Podcast · May 2020
Lex admits he sadly doesn't have time to play games anymore but wants to do this once or twice a month as a source of pleasure.
00:00:00Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
He notes the game lets you select genitals and penis size, calls it a fascinating design choice, but will edit that part out to keep it family friendly.
00:08:07Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Confesses Cyberpunk feels like a lot more shooting than RPG and gives a Grand Theft Auto vibe, which is not really his thing.
00:44:34Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Says the playthrough makes him appreciate seeing people not wearing masks and being in proximity during the pandemic.
00:47:16Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Concludes the game is not really his thing and he'd rather explore the world in a different, less shooting-heavy context.
01:07:26Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Reflects that real cyberware upgrades would let the rich enhance themselves and widen the gap between haves and have-nots.
00:53:28Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Lex picks 'normal' difficulty, joking that normal for him is what very hard is for most gamers.
00:01:34Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Reveals he got LASIK surgery and calls it the best thing he's ever done, comparing it to V's eye cyberware install.
00:51:25Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
He's playing with a Kinesis ergonomic keyboard, which he says makes driving and controls really hard.
00:16:00Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Notes he's running the game on high settings at 1080p, not ultra, and is amazed you can see freckles on a character's face.
00:48:18Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Comments his in-game apartment is way too nice and the opposite of what his real apartment looks like.
00:46:46Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Says he wants to go hiking in the game's scenery and that wanting to enjoy the view rather than shoot is how you know you're getting old.
00:14:57Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
States that if he plays shooters he prefers straight shooters like Call of Duty, and considers himself more of an Elder Scrolls RPG player.
01:07:57Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020
Oliphant wrote the first version of NumPy in four months only because two students dropped his MRI class, leaving him with empty teaching time.
00:54:43Travis Oliphant · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2021
He took on unifying the split array community partly out of duty, knowing his electrical-engineering department would not appreciate the open-source work for tenure.
00:55:44Travis Oliphant · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2021
His 2006-07 tenure bid split the department all the way to the university president; they told him to reapply in two years, and he left academia instead.
01:07:36Travis Oliphant · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2021
To fund his lab he self-published 'Guide to NumPy' with a market-determined price, selling 30,000 copies and using the money to pay his grad student.
01:11:44Travis Oliphant · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2021
Microsoft offered to buy Anaconda in 2014, but the offer came from two levels below Satya Nadella while Microsoft was doubling down on R, so it went nowhere.
01:27:46Travis Oliphant · Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2021

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