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Luís and João Batalha on Fermat's Library, Broken Scientific Publishing and the Art of Reading Papers
The Fermat's Library co-founders talk paper backstories, paywalled journals, how to read and annotate papers, Perelman, and Messi vs. Ronaldo with Lex Fridman.

Travis Oliphant on Creating NumPy, SciPy and Anaconda, and Funding Open Source
Travis Oliphant tells Lex Fridman how NumPy, SciPy, Conda and Numba were built, and how he is trying to make open source financially sustainable.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
The Python community's opinionated field guide to setting up, writing, reading and shipping great code.

Peter Wang on Python, Open Source, the Cybernetic Era and the Meaning Crisis
Anaconda co-founder Peter Wang talks Python's design, open source value, cybernetic systems, human layers, love, and why we face a meaning crisis.

Guido van Rossum on Python 3.11's Speedup, Type Hints, the GIL and the Future of Programming
Python creator Guido van Rossum explains readability, the 3.11 speedup, type hints, the GIL, Python 4, Copilot and stepping down as BDFL.

Chris Lattner on Mojo, Modular and the Future of Programming and AI
Chris Lattner explains Mojo, a Python superset built for AI speed, and Modular's fight against the complexity of AI software and hardware.

Mark Zuckerberg on Open-Source AI, Llama, Moderation, Layoffs, Quest 3 and Jiu-Jitsu
Mark Zuckerberg talks Llama and open-source AI, many AIs instead of one, moderation, a leaner Meta, Quest 3, AI risk, jiu-jitsu and faith.

Jimmy Wales on Building Wikipedia, Neutrality, Community Health and the Business of Trust
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on the site's origins, notability, political bias, AI, community health and why he refused advertising.

George Hotz on tiny corp, tinygrad, Open-Source AI Safety, Self-Driving, and Twitter
George Hotz on tinygrad and the tinybox, comma's learned driving policy, why open source is AI safety, and what he learned at Twitter.

FFmpeg and VLC with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya: Codecs, Assembly, and the Volunteers Behind Internet Video
VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf and FFmpeg's Kieran Kunhya explain codecs, handwritten assembly, open source ethics, and who keeps internet video running.

Yann LeCun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
Meta's Yann LeCun explains why LLMs won't reach human-level AI, how JEPA world models could, and why open source beats AI doom.