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Jim’s talk with Lex Friedman was quite amazing. Highly recommend listening- https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA

imjasonmiller 6y ago
> If you constantly unpacked everything for deeper understanding, you're never going to get anything done. If you don't unpack understanding when you need to, you'll do the wrong thing. I really liked that quote. It's a great talk indeed.
- op03 6y ago
  "Explore Vs Exploit Dilemma"
- tumultco 6y ago
  It echoes a Confucius quote I like: “Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.” (Analects 2:15)
gigatexal 6y ago
amazing podcast episode for sure, I wonder where Keller will go next. It'd be insane if he went to AMD or Apple in their new ARM push.
castratikron 6y ago
Amazing how he didn't know how to read until age 8, and then read two books a week up to now (about 50 years)
- person_of_color 6y ago
  This baffles me. How do you tradeoff with learning and “doing” i.e writing code or putting what you have learnt into practice? I can’t finish a technical book without getting the urge to implement
gyre007 6y ago
I love all of Lex's podcasts. They've been truly mind-expanding for me personally.
- data_spy 6y ago
  Lex is a bit quirky, but I like that.
nickysielicki 6y ago
I wish that the interviewer had more background in computer architecture. A lot of these questions wouldn't be asked if he took an architecture class in school. Keller says a lot of interesting things in this interview that aren't followed up on. He calls for more substantial changes and architectural changes, I wonder what he thinks of spatial architectures.
- InTheArena 6y ago
  Or at least listened a bit more - rather then "agree to disagree"... That said, I haven't listened to him much, and he just grated me wrong here.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  I think the interviewer 'acts' dumb, because then the resulting video requires less pre-knowledge to understand. The video goes from something that 100,000 people with a computer architecture background might watch to something that 10,000,000 people with a tech background might watch.
  - nickysielicki 6y ago
    That's fair, I think you're right. Selfishly, though, as someone who doesn't work at Intel/nvidia/AMD but is interested in architecture and digital design, it's frustrating how hard it is to find candid opinions from industry experts in comparison to software. Computer architecture just isn't the same in terms of attitude. One of my favorite things about the computer architecture courses I took was to sit after class and ask my professors about something I'd read about, and more often than not they'd tell me that what I read was bullshit and nobody seriously considered it in the industry, or they'd tell me about something they were excited about that I hadn't heard of. It's hard to get a handle on where the industry is heading and what important people see as the next steps to iterate on. A general conversation is probably more useful to most people, but there are a lot of times in this conversation where you get the feeling that Keller is right on the precipice of giving an insider prediction of the future, and the topic shifts instead. It's frustrating because those types of conversations are just straight-up difficult to find elsewhere.
ciarannolan 6y ago
I just watched this entire thing. I'd never heard of Lex before. It's pretty funny for the interviewer to say "agree to disagree" or "well, no" when he's clearly not the expert of the two.

imjasonmiller 6y ago

> If you constantly unpacked everything for deeper understanding, you're never going to get anything done. If you don't unpack understanding when you need to, you'll do the wrong thing. I really liked that quote. It's a great talk indeed.

op03 6y ago
"Explore Vs Exploit Dilemma"
tumultco 6y ago
It echoes a Confucius quote I like: “Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.” (Analects 2:15)

gigatexal 6y ago

amazing podcast episode for sure, I wonder where Keller will go next. It'd be insane if he went to AMD or Apple in their new ARM push.

castratikron 6y ago

Amazing how he didn't know how to read until age 8, and then read two books a week up to now (about 50 years)

person_of_color 6y ago
This baffles me. How do you tradeoff with learning and “doing” i.e writing code or putting what you have learnt into practice? I can’t finish a technical book without getting the urge to implement

gyre007 6y ago

I love all of Lex's podcasts. They've been truly mind-expanding for me personally.

data_spy 6y ago
Lex is a bit quirky, but I like that.

nickysielicki 6y ago

I wish that the interviewer had more background in computer architecture. A lot of these questions wouldn't be asked if he took an architecture class in school. Keller says a lot of interesting things in this interview that aren't followed up on. He calls for more substantial changes and architectural changes, I wonder what he thinks of spatial architectures.

InTheArena 6y ago
Or at least listened a bit more - rather then "agree to disagree"... That said, I haven't listened to him much, and he just grated me wrong here.
londons_explore 6y ago
I think the interviewer 'acts' dumb, because then the resulting video requires less pre-knowledge to understand. The video goes from something that 100,000 people with a computer architecture background might watch to something that 10,000,000 people with a tech background might watch.
- nickysielicki 6y ago
  That's fair, I think you're right. Selfishly, though, as someone who doesn't work at Intel/nvidia/AMD but is interested in architecture and digital design, it's frustrating how hard it is to find candid opinions from industry experts in comparison to software. Computer architecture just isn't the same in terms of attitude. One of my favorite things about the computer architecture courses I took was to sit after class and ask my professors about something I'd read about, and more often than not they'd tell me that what I read was bullshit and nobody seriously considered it in the industry, or they'd tell me about something they were excited about that I hadn't heard of. It's hard to get a handle on where the industry is heading and what important people see as the next steps to iterate on. A general conversation is probably more useful to most people, but there are a lot of times in this conversation where you get the feeling that Keller is right on the precipice of giving an insider prediction of the future, and the topic shifts instead. It's frustrating because those types of conversations are just straight-up difficult to find elsewhere.

ciarannolan 6y ago

I just watched this entire thing. I'd never heard of Lex before. It's pretty funny for the interviewer to say "agree to disagree" or "well, no" when he's clearly not the expert of the two.