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Korkin argues AlphaFold's success echoes the old expert systems: its power comes from building deep domain knowledge into the model.
01:04:46Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
He calls DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 announcement essentially 'a blog post written by a marketing team,' cautioning against treating it as a published paper.
01:17:49Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
He pushes back on 'protein folding is solved': AlphaFold mainly cracks compact single/two-domain proteins, while multi-domain proteins remain far from understood.
01:18:20Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Korkin ranks AlphaFold among his top three AI breakthroughs, but places Deep Blue beating Kasparov as the most groundbreaking moment in AI history.
01:24:34Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
He reveals his lab is building a machine learning model to predict whether a viral strain is pathogenic from its sequence.
01:42:14Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Asked who designs better viruses, nature or humans, he says he'd still be more worried about natural pandemics than engineered ones.
01:49:02Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Folding begins before a protein is fully made, starting as it emerges from the ribosome, which he calls one of biology's biggest enigmas.
01:08:55Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Korkin recounts asking a 'dumb question' on a chemistry forum and waking up to a reply from Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg.
00:57:58Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Proteins are modular: an average protein is like a string of beads where each bead is a structural, functional, and evolutionary unit called a domain.
00:02:37Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
The first experimental structure of a SARS-CoV-2 protein, the spike, was solved very quickly thanks to advances in cryo-electron microscopy.
00:06:19Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
A single virus particle is mostly made of about a thousand M-protein dimers forming the outer shell, plus roughly 50 to 90 spike trimers.
00:18:26Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
A promising new attack vector is targeting the M dimer outer shell, which is evolutionarily more stable than the spike protein.
00:19:29Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
A 2018 Nature paper reported the amino acid glycine found in comet dust, hinting at the cosmic chemistry of life's building blocks.
00:46:29Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
The rare earth hypothesis counters the Drake equation, arguing Earth's conditions may be nearly unique in the galaxy or universe.
00:48:36Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Joshua Lederberg's 1960s DENDRAL project, an expert system to identify molecules from mass spec data, helped originate modern bioinformatics.
01:00:36Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Korkin argues all intelligence is some form of search, and that search is an integral but currently undervalued part of AI.
01:26:38Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Computational biophysicists first won a Nobel Prize for protein folding work back in 2013.
01:39:36Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Von Neumann wrote 'The Computer and the Brain' while dying of cancer; it was published in 1958, a year after his 1957 death.
02:01:35Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
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
Argues AI systems that interact meaningfully with humans must have suffering, including depression, engineered in as part of consciousness.
00:03:35Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Admits he was a popular kid in Russia but became a total outcast after moving to America, which shaped his worldview.
00:06:11Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Says if he could ask an alien only one thing it would be for life advice to help humanity survive, hoping for a Naval-style answer.
00:18:08Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Now considers social media the greatest threat among AI risks, a shift from his earlier more balanced view.
00:53:46Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Changed his mind that extraterrestrial life and consciousness are worthy of serious scientific investigation.
00:55:34Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Reveals he orders plain McDonald's beef patties for a dollar fifty without buns to stay keto.
01:08:33Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Says his darkest times came from putting faith in people who turned out not to be their best selves.
01:10:05Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Believes humans are fundamentally alone, 'trapped in this conscious meat vessel between our ears.'
00:07:44Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Has a script that finds files with spaces in their names and renames them with underscores after confirmation.
00:22:48Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Calls passion and Google the two essential skills for learning computer science today.
00:25:57Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Sees happiness as a side effect of a life well lived and a useful signal, not a goal in itself.
00:32:43Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Approaches diet as a 'nutritional scientist running a study of n of one,' studying only himself.
01:00:46Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Discovered intermittent fasting about 15 years ago and found he could eat once a day and still train multiple times.
01:01:16Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Says keto combined with fasting gives him greater stable, prolonged mental focus for deep work.
01:04:56Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Is reading about the ethics of veganism and reconsidering his meat-heavy diet.
01:09:34Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Huberman calls it mind-blowing that the master circadian clock coordinates every organ in the body simply by oscillating temperature.
00:09:53Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
He pushes back on sleep anxiety, arguing science has 'gone too far' and that you can function well on disrupted sleep if you stay calm.
00:18:12Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
He claims there's no evidence eight hours beats six, and consistency of sleep duration matters more than total amount.
00:23:27Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Citing Satchin Panda's work, mice eating freely but only within a restricted window stayed lean while the same food spread over 24 hours made them fat and sick.
01:01:15Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Lex describes the 'hack' of telling himself he feels good while running and actually starting to feel better, which Huberman frames as real biology.
00:57:37Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Huberman frames REM dreaming as self-induced trauma therapy where you replay intense emotion with epinephrine switched off.
01:21:22Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
A Nature paper from UC Davis shows chemists modifying psychedelics to keep neuroplasticity while removing the hallucinogenic component.
01:37:18Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Lex reveals he privately archived and processed Joe Rogan's entire YouTube video catalog to do blink and pupil tracking research.
02:06:37Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Huberman jokes he avoids 'why' questions because he 'wasn't consulted at the design phase' of human biology.
00:01:35Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Your temperature minimum sits about two hours before your natural wake time and is a key landmark for shifting your circadian clock with light.
00:14:32Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
A 20-minute non-sleep deep rest protocol can reset basal ganglia dopamine to post-sleep levels, per a Danish study.
00:25:30Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Inhaling speeds the heart up and exhaling slows it down, the basis of heart rate variability you can manipulate in real time.
00:46:13Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Testosterone's main effect is to make effort feel good, and cholesterol gets diverted toward either cortisol or testosterone, not both.
00:54:31Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Salt and electrolytes, not sugar, often fix the shakiness people feel while fasting.
01:08:29Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
London taxi drivers' hippocampal place cells replay their city routes during sleep, the same spatial replay seen in rodents.
01:18:18Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
MDMA is unusual because it elevates dopamine and serotonin simultaneously, a state Huberman says may have never before existed in human history.
01:38:20Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Acetylcholine from the nucleus basalis can permanently rewire the neocortex around a focused event, a basis for accelerated learning.
01:56:53Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Every blink resets your perception of time via a dopaminergic mechanism, and alert people blink less.
02:10:48Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Reisman decided to donate his own body to a medical school dissection lab before the end of his very first day of anatomy class.
00:15:31Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He explains Moderna created its COVID vaccine without ever having the actual virus in the lab, working only from the genome.
00:21:14Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He defends Elizabeth Holmes's underlying Theranos goal as a 'very worthy' frontier even while the execution was a fraud.
00:22:51Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He frames diarrhea as a 'brilliant' and 'intelligent' evolutionary strategy by microbes to spread via the fecal-oral route.
01:01:34Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
His love of travel, not a career plan, drove him to practice medicine in Arctic Alaska, Russia, Nepal, India, and Antarctica.
01:31:36Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Asked for his last meal, he picks bone marrow, calling it 'the perfect food' (and notes Joe Rogan loves it too).
01:53:26Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
He cites sham-surgery and placebo studies showing knee arthroscopy and cardiac stents for stable disease may not beat fake procedures.
02:11:29Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
His two big adult realizations: no one knows what they're doing, and suicide is shockingly common across all humans and societies.
02:29:02Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Swallowing uses over 15 muscles and multiple cranial nerves to keep food millimeters away from the windpipe every single time.
00:34:14Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Every red blood cell takes about five minutes to circulate the body and return to the heart, nonstop from womb to death.
00:42:29Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Testicles hang outside the body because sperm production works best a few degrees cooler than core body temperature.
00:53:15Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Certain baleen whales have erectile tissue in their mouths that helps cool their bodies, similar in structure to the penis.
00:55:18Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Reisman cites Chekhov, also a doctor-writer, that peasants and aristocrats 'all have the same ugly bodies.'
01:09:24Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
An average human male produces about 500 billion sperm, roughly four to five times the number of people who have ever lived.
01:12:31Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
The liver can regenerate itself, which Reisman links to the myth of Prometheus having his liver eaten and regrown daily.
01:19:43Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Traditionally over half of all calories in the Inupiat Eskimo diet came from blubber and marine-mammal fat.
01:23:19Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
In Antarctica, Australia historically removed expedition members' healthy gallbladders preemptively to avoid winter emergencies.
01:31:20Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
A saying in medicine: by the time you finish med school, half of what you learned is already wrong.
02:08:56Jonathan Reisman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2022
Belcampo represents less than 1% of US-raised animals; the rest is factory farmed, which Lex says haunted him after his visit.
00:00:30Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Fernald argues industrial farming has 'de-skilled' agriculture, turning it from art and science into entry-level employment.
00:45:16Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
She claims converting damaged and underutilized rangeland to regenerative ag could sequester 20-40% of the world's carbon.
00:45:47Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Belcampo's 25,000 acres have been third-party verified as carbon-impact negative.
00:49:25Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
She pushes back on the 'ditch meat for plant-based' narrative, arguing meat can be part of the climate solution if we eat less and pay more.
00:50:26Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
On a high-grain diet a cow's rumen looks 'black and shiny' inside versus green and compost-smelling in grass-fed animals.
01:01:17Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Fernald reveals her early Sicily cheese job answered to 'multiple masters' and her boss later went to federal prison for corruption.
01:17:52Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
She is pro-hunting, calling hunted game the cleanest, happiest meat and wild animals the truly 'happiest cows.'
01:33:18Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Cooking and smelling food while hungry can lower your hunger by roughly 40%, changing your satiety threshold.
00:11:32Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
How meat cooks is governed more by muscle function and collagen content than by fat content.
00:28:38Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Load-bearing muscles like cheek and shin are full of collagen that must be liquefied with low, slow, moist heat.
00:29:40Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Lex notes he read a paper arguing the killing of an animal can never truly be humane.
00:51:58Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Ruminants like cows have five stomachs to process low-calorie, high-fiber grass that would make humans sick.
00:54:33Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
In the 1950s commercial chickens took about 54 weeks to reach full weight; in confinement today it can be 2.5 weeks.
00:56:07Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
A truly grass-fed chicken doesn't exist because chickens are monogastric omnivores that need grain density.
00:56:38Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
An animal's omega-3-to-6 ratio can change within a week of switching to grain.
01:01:17Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Conventional beef can have a 1:30 omega-3-to-6 ratio while Belcampo's grass-fed beef gets as low as 1:1.
01:08:30Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
Fernald was technically a professional musician, playing oboe in a Sicilian municipal band for 50 euro per funeral.
01:32:18Anya Fernald · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021
AlphaFold 2 predicts a protein's 3D structure in seconds, a task that previously took a PhD student their entire PhD for a single protein.
00:41:23Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Hassabis recounts that in 2010 nobody believed in AI; professors thought he was 'mad' and they hid the 'solve intelligence' mission to avoid eye-rolls.
00:51:45Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
AlphaFold has been used by over 500,000 researchers, which he estimates is essentially every professional biologist in the world.
01:04:51Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Hassabis states his personal belief that we are alone in the universe, arguing we should have heard a 'cacophony of voices' but heard nothing.
01:28:43Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
He says none of today's AI systems have 'one iota' of consciousness and dismisses the Google LaMDA-sentience claim as premature projection.
01:43:50Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
He advocates building AI as tools first, not conscious entities, until we understand them well enough to deploy safely.
01:52:32Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Asked the one question he'd put to a superintelligent AGI, he answers: 'What is the true nature of reality?'
02:08:04Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Hassabis bought his first chess computer, a ZX Spectrum, at age eight using winnings from a chess competition.
00:08:17Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
At age 12 he was the second-highest-rated chess player in the world for his age, behind Judit Polgar.
00:11:23Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Kasparov called chess 'the drosophila of intelligence'; Turing once ran his own chess program by hand with pencil and paper.
00:20:41Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Levinthal's paradox: an average protein could fold in roughly 10^300 ways, yet nature solves it in milliseconds.
00:42:57Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
DeepMind's fusion work controlled plasma hotter than the sun (~million degrees C) by adjusting magnetic fields within milliseconds.
01:15:16Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Von Neumann probes could in theory populate every star system in the galaxy within about a million years.
01:30:16Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's energy; high-level chess burns as much as a Formula One driver in a race.
01:38:08Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Hassabis is a night owl who works a 'second day' from ~10pm to 4-5am for deep thinking, reading, and research writing.
02:01:19Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
He marvels that computers can be made of sand (silicon), one of Earth's most common elements, rather than something rare like diamond.
02:07:01Demis Hassabis · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2022
Korkin frames a virus not as a living organism but as a perfected, almost intelligent machine.
00:03:43Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Folding@home gamers produced better protein structures than scientists themselves, a profound result.
00:45:54Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Evolution doesn't mutate the viral genome uniformly; it targets very specific proteins while others stay nearly identical to SARS.
01:11:43Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
A key finding: drug-binding sites on the new virus are largely unmutated, so existing small-molecule drugs may still work.
01:12:48Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Korkin singles out remdesivir as perhaps the most promising antiviral candidate.
01:25:54Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
His five-year agent-based simulation project, codenamed 'zombies on a cruise ship,' became eerily relevant as the Diamond Princess outbreak unfolded.
01:38:05Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
For the first time they modeled the pathogen itself as an explicit agent, not just the human hosts.
01:41:19Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Korkin notes he would have to renounce his US citizenship to easily travel back to Russia, making return difficult.
02:01:16Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
SARS-CoV-2's R0 is estimated at 1.5-3, versus 5-7 for smallpox and 15+ for measles.
00:10:04Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
The asymptomatic population matters because those people still shed and spread the virus.
00:11:36Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
SARS-CoV-2 has at least 29 proteins, versus roughly 8-9 for influenza.
00:28:31Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
The spike protein forms a trimer (three copies) to function as the virus's anchoring unit.
00:25:20Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
A single virion is around 100 nanometers and may carry roughly 5,200 spike proteins.
01:15:24Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
The first Protein Data Bank was reportedly organized on flash cards.
00:48:29Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
The Contagion movie's virus was designed by virologist Ian Lipkin based on Nipah virus, detailed enough for Korkin's class to model.
01:43:26Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
A recent study found tears are not contagious, with no viral shedding through tears.
01:50:39Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Masks work both ways: protecting the wearer and preventing an asymptomatic carrier from spreading the virus.
01:51:44Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Korkin collects scientist bobbleheads, starting with Watson and Crick and culminating with his favorite, Rosalind Franklin.
02:02:54Dmitry Korkin · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Bitter's 100-mile track world record was 11 hours 19 minutes, later broken by Lithuania's Aleksandr Sorokin who ran 11:14, about 6:45 per mile.
00:39:08Zach Bitter · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jul 2021

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