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#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
Mon Apr 22 2024
For a time, and, no access to the Internet or anything like that, no access to anything digital, really, And so the kind of notebook I'll be using is just a sheet of paper with a pen. So it's hard to express how much I've started to take for granted the incredible technology of Notion for the process of note taking. And I'm talking about individual note taking. Now what they really shine at is not just the individual note taking, but it's a collaborative aspect between teams. And the other aspect is their AI assistant. So integrating LLMs into the process of writing note taking, summarizing, all of that kind of stuff. It can help you generate a first draft. All the kind of things you know and are coming to love about LLMs, they're able to do in a really nice intuitive way. I mean, the power of LLMs is not just in the expressive capability of the raw model. It's also how you integrate that into a, sort of user interface, into a tool that you can use for solving particular tasks that you do. So for example, if you have a bunch of stuff on a team, you have a bunch of documents, like wikis and projects, The LLM knows about all of that. Their AI assistant knows about all of that, integrates all of that. You can talk to it. You can ask questions. Like, you can generate a progress report for the stuff you've done. So I haven't used it for very large teams. I've used it for small teams, and I love it for small teams. But I always want to work in a company that's big, that's using it because I think it will really shine on large teams. So, anyway, try Notion AI for free when you go to notion.com/lex. That's all lowercase, notion.com/lex to try the power of Notion AI today. This episode is also brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a
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#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
Sat Apr 20 2024
Picks. It was really hard. Fought the European championships at the high weight category and won that. And so everybody that was in the on the Olympic rostrum, at the, European, at the Olympic Games was on my rostrum at the, European championships. Mhmm. So, was it a mistake? Yeah. Because I didn't have my diet sorted out. My nutrition was appalling. And when I, you know, it wasn't as kind of readily available as it is now for the nutrition. And I would say that if, anything lost me that final, other than the fact that I was fighting somebody was terrific. You know, he was a a an excellent, brilliant athlete. But, definitely didn't help that my nutrition was was not very good. Okay. So you lost to Ezio Gamba. There's probably a lot of that we could say about that particular match. Maybe let's zoom in. What were your strengths and weaknesses, judo wise, in that Olympics? You said you haven't really lost the match. You won the championship leading into it. But if you had weak spots okay. You already said diet, but specifically on the mat, in terms of judo. I think that's none of the fights lasted time going into the final. You know? So I I won fairly quickly and, every match by Ipon, you know, way before time. Do you remember how do you remember how you won the matches? I won them by throw, a couple of throws, for Ipon, and then, arm lock, for Ipon semifinal was, an arm lock against the East German, Kruger. And, yeah, I just I was flying through, you know. What were the throws? Do you remember? Toyatoshi, Uchimata, my favorite kind of, tok was my favorite throws. And, and then Jujikitami as well, you know, which was a Jujikitami role against an an East German who I'd beaten before, but always had a really tough match. But,
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#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
Wed Apr 17 2024
The following is a conversation with Edward Gibson or Ted as everybody calls him. He is a psycholinguistics professor in MIT He heads the MIT language lab that investigates why human languages look the way they do. The relationship between cultural language and how people represent process and learn language. Also, he should have a book titled, a cognitive approach, published by MIT Press coming out this fall. So we'll call for that. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor, Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Yahoo Finance for basically everything you've ever needed. If you're an investor, Listening for listening to research papers, policy genius, for insurance, Shopify, for selling stuff online, and aid sleep for naps. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our amazing team or just get in touch with me, get elects treatment.com/contact. And now onto the full ad reads, as always, no ads in the middle. I try to make this interesting, but if you must skip friends, Please do check out the sponsors. I enjoyed their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by Yahoo Finance, a new sponsor. And they got a new website that you should check out. It's a website that provides financial management reports information and use for investors Yahoo itself has been around forever. Yahoo Finance has been around forever. I don't know how long, but it must be over 20 years. It's survived so much. It evolved rapidly and quickly adjusting, evolving, improving, all of that. The thing I use it for now is there's a portfolio that you can add your account to. Ever since I had zero money, I used boy, I think it's called TD Ameritrade. I still use that same thing, just getting a basic mutual fund. And I think TD Ameritrade
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#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones
Sat Apr 13 2024
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#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
Fri Apr 05 2024
I think, of sleep is a kind of celebration of our connection to nature. It's a mini death, but the beautiful version of that, especially when you dream, you travel to some place where your mind is reconfiguring itself to try to make sense of the world, to try to put together the puzzle in the most hallucinogenic way possible before you get to return to the real world where everything makes a little bit more sense. Like Alice in Wonderland, but it's, Lex in Wonderland in 8 Sleep Wonderland. Check him out and get special savings when you go to eightsleep.com/lex. This episode is also brought to you by Element, electrolytes that I'm sipping on right now, sodium, potassium, and magnesium. My favorite flavor is watermelon salt. It's the only one I drink. I drink it many times a day. It's great when I'm fasting. My diet these days is almost always eat once a day, very low carb. And for that, especially when you're starting out, you have to get the electrolytes right. Now as it starts to warm up and when I'm running long distance at Austin, Texas, I really have to get the electrolytes right. So you wanna make sure you have a lot of salt in your body and a lot of water before you go out in the long run, unless we're talking about crazy distances. I tend to prefer not to drink on the run. I don't know. There's something super inconvenient about bringing a water bottle with you when you're out on the trail or just in the middle of nowhere. I just like to forget the world, forget the needs of the buff. Forget everything. Forget time and just focus on my thoughts. Or if I'm listening to an audio book, focus on the thing that's being said and all the little tangent that my brain creates from what's being said, all of that. So but before I go out on the run, I drink a bunch of element to get the electrolytes right. And, again, it mixes the electrolytes and the water, so you get both, and you're all set. You can get a simple pack for free with any purchase.