Are You Still to This Day Most Productive at Night?

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"I've done a bunch of water fasts because I'm curious what happens. What's interesting is that you're hungry for two days and then starting day three or so, you're not hungry," he says. "It's like such a weird feeling because you haven't eaten in a few days and you're not Hungry." He adds: "One of the many weird things about human biology is figure something out... It finds another source of energy".

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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:41) – Neural networks
(10:45) – Biology
(16:15) – Aliens
(26:27) – Universe
(38:18) – Transformers
(46:34) – Language models
(56:45) – Bots
(1:03:05) – Google’s LaMDA
(1:10:28) – Software 2.0
(1:21:28) – Human annotation
(1:23:25) – Camera vision
(1:28:30) – Tesla’s Data Engine
(1:32:39) – Tesla Vision
(1:39:09) – Elon Musk
(1:44:17) – Autonomous driving
(1:49:11) – Leaving Tesla
(1:54:39) – Tesla’s Optimus
(2:03:45) – ImageNet
(2:06:23) – Data
(2:16:15) – Day in the life
(2:29:31) – Best IDE
(2:36:37) – arXiv
(2:41:06) – Advice for beginners
(2:50:24) – Artificial general intelligence
(3:03:44) – Movies
(3:09:37) – Future of human civilization
(3:13:56) – Book recommendations
(3:20:05) – Advice for young people
(3:21:56) – Future of machine learning
(3:28:44) – Meaning of life