Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Spencer Pratt details his run for Los Angeles mayor, exposing how city negligence and NGO fraud caused the Palisades fire disaster and diverted relief funds, while outlining plans to prosecute corruption and enforce mandatory addiction treatment.
Jensen Huang explains how Nvidia's 'electrons to tokens' full-stack ecosystem and massive supply chain commitments create a durable moat against commoditization and TPU competition, while arguing that AI agents will exponentially increase software tool usage rather than replace it.
This episode explores the radicalizing public response to AI existential risk through recent attacks on lab leaders, while featuring interviews on reinforcement learning for circuit design, independent AI governance models, and San Francisco's first fully AI-operated retail store.
Dave Chappelle discusses restoring a historic building to save his local NPR station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, while defending comedy's function as society's emotional processor and addressing the double standards he faces regarding his controversial performance in Saudi Arabia.
Actor Elizabeth Banks discusses her 33-year marriage to college sweetheart Max Handelman, revealing how repeated explicit commitments, mutual career sacrifices, and rejecting "scorekeeping" in favor of genuine partnership allowed them to grow together from freshman romance to navigating midlife transitions.
Professional kitchen experts confirm you only need three specific knives to handle virtually any cooking task, and investing in individual high-quality blades tailored to your hand size beats buying expensive pre-made sets.
Chandran Kukathas argues that an open society is fundamentally a regime of toleration that cannot be morally limited, as any attempt to restrict toleration by appealing to truth, justice, or reason begs the question; instead, departing from toleration is always an exercise of power, not moral justification.
Serpentine Galleries artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist describes how curators act as "junction makers" who create transformative experiences by listening deeply to artists, embracing serendipity over rigid planning, and building long-term, multi-sensory projects that leverage unexpected partnerships and technologies.
Notion's AI leads Sarah Sachs and Simon Last detail their three-year journey to launch custom agents, revealing how they navigated premature model capabilities, built a culture of radical iteration, and balance immediate utility with forward-looking bets on software factories and MCP integration.
This lecture covers resource accounting fundamentals for training large language models, including FLOPs calculations and memory estimation, explores numerical precision trade-offs from FP32 down to FP4, and introduces einops as a readable alternative to PyTorch tensor operations using named dimensions.
This lecture introduces Stanford CS336's philosophy of building language models from scratch to understand fundamentals rather than relying on abstractions, addressing how researchers can navigate the disconnect caused by industrialized, closed frontier models by focusing on transferable mechanics and efficiency-minded mindsets.
David Rubenstein traces his path from blue-collar Baltimore to founding Carlyle Group, arguing that humble beginnings build credibility, education provides permanent advantage, and career failures often precede greatest successes when you pursue work you genuinely enjoy.