Lex Fridman Podcast

Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of “The New Roman Empire”, a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).

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Anthony’s Publications: https://kaldellispublications.weebly.com

Anthony’s University of Chicago page: https://classics.uchicago.edu/people/anthony-kaldellis

The New Roman Empire (book): https://amzn.to/3PTFTqk

Streams of Gold (book): https://amzn.to/4fgRMRq

Byzantium & Friends Podcast: https://byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/

The History of Byzantium Podcast: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:11) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:45) – The Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire

(12:42) – 2,200 Years of Roman History

(33:06) – Power, violence, and civil war

(54:20) – Edict of Caracalla

(1:07:17) – Crisis of the Third Century

(1:21:45) – Constantine and the new Roman Empire

(1:33:46) – Christianity in the Roman Empire

(1:59:14) – Fall of the Western Roman Empire

(2:12:11) – Eunuchs, Taxes, and Power

(2:37:17) – Emperor Justinian and wars of conquest

(2:54:19) – The Arab conquests

(3:13:55) – Why the Roman empire survived so long

(3:40:01) – Lessons from history

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Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:34) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:52) – Unifying the laws of nature

(23:23) – Einstein, special relativity, and general relativity

(40:31) – Electroweak force

(52:13) – How particle colliders work

(1:10:16) – Higgs boson discovery

(1:20:35) – Theory of everything

(1:50:20) – Physics of empty space

(1:57:45) – Antimatter

(2:18:35) – Dark energy

(2:22:23) – Dark matter

(2:50:59) – Future of physics

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X.

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FFmpeg on X: https://x.com/FFmpeg

FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/

VideoLAN (VLC): https://www.videolan.org/

VideoLAN on X: https://x.com/videolan

Jean-Baptiste’s Website: https://jbkempf.com/

Jean-Baptiste’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbkempf/

Jean-Baptiste’s GitHub: https://github.com/jbkempf

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(03:00) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(10:48) – Weirdest things VLC opens

(15:12) – How video playback works

(24:33) – Video codecs and containers

(35:20) – FFmpeg explained

(56:20) – Linus Torvalds

(1:00:59) – Turning down millions to keep VLC ad-free

(1:15:17) – FFmpeg & Google drama

(1:34:31) – FFmpeg developers

(1:41:08) – VLC and FFmpeg

(1:45:42) – History of FFmpeg

(1:48:59) – Reverse engineering codecs

(2:02:14) – FFmpeg testing

(2:06:21) – Assembly code (handwritten)

(2:30:39) – Rust programming language

(2:39:55) – FFmpeg and Libav fork

(2:48:17) – Open source burnout

(2:56:04) – x264 and internet video

(3:09:20) – Video compression basics

(3:16:17) – CIA and fake VLC

(3:26:52) – Ultra low latency streaming

(3:44:20) – AV2 codec and video patents

(3:54:12) – VLC backdoors

(4:04:27) – Video archiving

(4:11:04) – Future of FFmpeg and VLC

Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire.

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The Sea Wolves (book): https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Wolves-History-Vikings/dp/1909979120

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12 Byzantine Rulers Podcast : https://12byzantinerulers.com/

Norman Centuries Podcast: https://apple.co/4sgSxNi

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(01:03) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(08:57) – The start of the Viking Age

(18:50) – Viking military strategy, tactics & technology

(32:33) – Ragnar Lothbrok

(42:00) – The Great Heathen Army

(46:42) – Rollo and Normandy

(56:54) – Viking religion and Valhalla

(1:07:25) – Viking explorers

(1:12:33) – Vikings in North America

(1:25:55) – Vikings in the East

(1:45:33) – Byzantine Empire

(1:54:17) – History and human nature

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Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution.

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NVIDIA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nvidia/

NVIDIA on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nvidia/

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NVIDIA on GitHub: https://github.com/NVIDIA

Nemotron: https://developer.nvidia.com/nemotron

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OUTLINE:

(00:00) – Introduction

(00:26) – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

(06:34) – Extreme co-design and rack-scale engineering

(09:20) – How Jensen runs NVIDIA

(28:41) – AI scaling laws

(43:41) – Biggest blockers to AI scaling laws

(45:25) – Supply chain

(47:20) – Memory

(53:25) – Power

(58:45) – Elon and Colossus

(1:02:13) – Jensen’s approach to engineering and leadership

(1:07:38) – China

(1:15:51) – TSMC and Taiwan

(1:21:06) – NVIDIA’s moat

(1:26:43) – AI data centers in space

(1:30:31) – Will NVIDIA be worth $10 trillion?

(1:40:40) – Leadership under pressure

(1:54:26) – Video games

(2:01:18) – AGI timeline

(2:03:31) – Future of programming

(2:17:02) – Consciousness

(2:23:23) – Mortality

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