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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established it...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Ages of Discord
Ages of Discord
We are on the wrong track Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The inflation-adjusted wage of a US worker today is less...
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Ages of Discord
Fermat's Last Theorem
Fermat's Last Theorem
The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat’s La...
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Fermat's Last Theorem
The Practice
The Practice
From the bestselling author of Linchpin, Tribes, and The Dip comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrep...
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The Practice
Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729
Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729
In his book Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work, G. H. Hardy tells this famous story: He could remember the idiosyncracies of numbers in an almost uncanny way. It …
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Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Public Goods: https://publicgoods.com/lex and use code LEX to get $15 off - Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit - ROKA: https://roka.com/ and use code LEX to get 20% off your first order - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - Magic Spoon: https://magicspoon.com/lex and use code LEX to get $5 off EPISODE LINKS: Yann's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ylecun Yann's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun Yann's Website: http://yann.lecun.com/ Books and resources mentioned: Self-supervised learning (article): https://bit.ly/3Aau1DQ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (01:07) - Self-supervised learning (11:26) - Vision vs language (17:18) - Statistics (23:05) - Three challenges of machine learning (28:54) - Chess (36:57) - Animals and intelligence (46:40) - Data augmentation (1:08:01) - Multimodal learning (1:19:49) - Consciousness (1:24:35) - Intrinsic vs learned ideas (1:28:47) - Fear of death (1:36:38) - Artificial Intelligence (1:50:27) - Facebook AI Research (2:07:06) - NeurIPS (2:23:18) - Complexity (2:31:43) - Music (2:36:38) - Advice for young people
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#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
How a Gray Painting Can Break Your Heart
How a Gray Painting Can Break Your Heart
This austere work by Jasper Johns doesn’t seem to invite much of a close read. But its cool surface belies a depth of feeling, which shows us all the power of artistic restraint.
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How a Gray Painting Can Break Your Heart