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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 N
by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
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 who know a thing or two, of course.
Most of the rest is unfortunately a bit like guest show TV. Fridman is a likeable guy but he's as hard hitting as a fluffy kitten. Also, he takes forever to ask a question sometimes.
- ge96 5y ago> 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. Yeah that must be a nice place to be. The one be did with Jim Keller was a good one.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoThanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.
- WaffleIronMaker 5y agoI 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.com/watch?v=U_6AYX42gkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6AYX42gkU
- WaffleIronMaker 5y agooops, I meant: https://youtu.be/U_lKUK2MCsg https://youtu.be/U_lKUK2MCsg