Lex Fridman

"And Pandora, I used a lot. Pandora is more prioritizing on the discovery part versus organization part. And that was really wonderful."

"I've never used Pro Tools. I've used REAPER, I've used Studio One, that's the most recent that I've used that."

"I've never used Pro Tools. I've used REAPER, I've used Studio One, that's the most recent that I've used that."

"And for the most time I've used Ableton Live. I feel like I'm using 1% of the power of the tool."

"This is gonna be embarrassing. Yeah. I use BIAS FX. I'm sorry."

"And switch to Spotify. Switch to streaming, and basically, rebuild the stash of playlists and all this kind of stuff."

"I was an Emacs person for a long time. Man, Emacs."

"I should say, going to Perplexity here, Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author known for several influential books."

"I use basically half-and-half Cursor and Claude Code, because they're fundamentally different experiences and both are useful."

"Let me look this up on Perplexity: what are the technologies we modern humans have that the Mashco Piro do not?"

"Looking it up on Perplexity, real numbers include all the numbers that can be represented on the number line"

"First is Build a Large Language Model from Scratch and Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch. I truly believe in the machine learning world, the best way to learn and understand something is to build it yourself from scratch."

"First is Build a Large Language Model from Scratch and Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch. I truly believe in the machine learning world, the best way to learn and understand something is to build it yourself from scratch."

"You should follow him on Instagram, Life with Dan. He's an incredible wildlife photographer."

"checking out the gala that Paul is hosting in New York on January 22nd in a few days."

"If you would like to support Paul and his team in their mission to protect the jungle, go to junglekeepers.org."

"He has a new book coming out in a few days titled Jungle Keeper that you should definitely go pre-order now."

"And everybody, go pre-order The Jungle Keeper, the book, available everywhere."

"There's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song, full song from a text prompt."

"There's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song, full song from a text prompt."

"There's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song, full song from a text prompt."

"I'll mention to you offline, so the whole iZotope RX group of software that does a lot of the de-noising, all the removing the wind, all the, they integrate machine learning extremely effectively for working with audio in different kinds of ways."

"Uses whatever AI model you like, including Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex"

"Uses whatever AI model you like, including Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex"

"Many people are calling this one of the biggest moments in the recent history of AI, since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022"

"He spent 13 years building PSPDF Kit, which is a software used on a billion devices"

"You vibe-coded Viptunnel from TypeScript into Zig of all programming languages with a single prompt"

"You vibe-coded Viptunnel from TypeScript into Zig of all programming languages with a single prompt"

"like a hobby, just as cursor or perplexity"

"like a hobby, just as cursor or perplexity"

"you're able to talk to it using WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord"

"Not to be confused with Claude, the AI model from Anthropic, spelled with a U"

"talks to you through Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage"

"creator of OpenClaw, formerly known as MoldBot"

"talks to you through Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage"

"For most of my life I've been a Linux, Windows and WSL1, WSL2 person"

"OpenClaw, as its tagline states, is the AI that actually does things. It's an autonomous AI assistant that lives in your computer, has access to all of your stuff, if you let it"

"If you look at the browser, Chrome. If I wanted to add a feature, if I wanted to have tabs as opposed to up top, I want them on the left side"

"Nathan is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI, author of the definitive book on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback."

"This happened about a year ago in January 2025, when the open-weight Chinese company DeepSeek released DeepSeek R1, that I think it's fair to say surprised everyone with near-state-of-the-art performance, with allegedly much less compute for much cheaper."

"For me personally, since we're talking about coding, and you mentioned debugging... the source of enjoyment for me, more on the Cursor side than Claude Code, is that I have a friend, I have a pair programmer."

"He gave me this book that he has recently written, Echoes from Eden. Signed it."

"One of your more controversial ideas in mathematics as laid out in the paper, The Set-Theoretic Multiverse, you describe that there may not be one true mathematics, but rather multiple mathematical universes."

"And he has a great blog, infinitelymore.xyz."

"He is also the author of several books, including Proof and the Art of Mathematics and Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics."

"MathOverflow, by the way, is like StackOverflow but for research mathematicians."

"He is the number one highest rated user on MathOverflow, which I think is a legendary accomplishment. MathOverflow, by the way, is like StackOverflow but for research mathematicians."

"He is also the author of several books, including Proof and the Art of Mathematics and Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics."

"So here, going to Perplexity, Django Reinhardt was, of course, a jazz guitarist and composer, active mainly in France."

"LMNT is my go to zero sugar electrolyte drink and has been for many years. I bring these LMNT packets everywhere I go. It helps me replenish electrolytes I lose in training and fasting."

"We've got Uplift Desk, for my favorite office desks"

"BetterHelp, for mental health"

"LMNT, for electrolytes"

"Fin, for customer service AI agents"

"Shopify, for selling stuff online"

"Element for electrolytes"