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Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Land a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg
Vlad Feinberg is Google DeepMind’s pre-training area lead and I asked him all about how to land a job at a frontier lab like Google DeepMind, Anthrop…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones
Simon Peyton Jones is the co-creator of Haskell (pure functional programming language) and I interviewed him about functional programming, why it mat…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Turing Award Winner: P vs NP, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Quantum Computation | Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson is the only person in history to have won both a Turing Award (computer science) and Abel Prize (math). I interviewed him all about his…
5 months ago
Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Eng: Building Great Systems and Advice for the AI Era | James Cowling
James Cowling is the CTO at Convex and was previously the most senior engineer at Dropbox. We discussed technical details of his past projects, simpl…
5 months, 1 week ago
Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of the C++ programming language and a former researcher at Bell Labs. We talked about what Bell Labs was like, progr…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Harvard Professor: CS50, What Matters More Than CS, Lecturing Well | David J Malan
David Malan is a Harvard professor known for turning CS50 into a popular online computer science course. We discussed the story behind CS50, how to l…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White
John Myles White recently left his role as a director of engineering at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) so we spoke freely about promo culture, how…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Turing Award Winner: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems | Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov is a Turing Award winner known for her work in programming languages and distributed systems. We discussed the major problems she solv…
6 months ago
Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker
Mike Stonebraker is a Turing Award winner famous for his contributions to fundamental database technologies. We discussed the story behind building P…
6 months, 1 week ago
AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker
In this episode, I talked to Marc Brooker, a distinguished engineer at AWS who started there as a new grad and rose through the ranks. We discussed t…
6 months, 2 weeks ago