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Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, previously at AMD, Apple, Tesla, Intel, and now Tenstorrent. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  OUTLINE:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (07:02) - Good design is both science and engineering
  (13:03) - Javascript
  (17:09) - RISC vs CISC
  (21:09) - What makes a great processor?
  (22:38) - Intel vs ARM
  (24:27) - Steve Jobs and Apple
  (27:05) - Elon Musk and Steve Jobs
  (32:50) - Father
  (36:33) - Perfection
  (42:48) - Modular design
  (48:22) - Moore’s law
  (55:20) - Hardware for deep learning
  (1:02:14) - Making neural networks fast at scale
  (1:09:51) - Andrej Karpathy and Chris Lattner
  (1:14:05) - How GPUs work
  (1:18:12) - Tesla Autopilot, NVIDIA, and Mobileye
  (1:22:52) - Andrej Karpathy and Software 2.0
  (1:29:13) - Tesla Dojo
  (1:31:49) - Neural networks will understand physics better than humans
  (1:34:02) - Re-engineering the human brain
  (1:38:56) - Infinite fun and the Culture Series by Iain Banks
  (1:40:50) - Neuralink
  (1:46:13) - Dreams
  (1:50:06) - Ideas
  (2:00:19) - Aliens
  (2:05:16) - Jordan Peterson
  (2:10:13) - Viruses
  (2:13:22) - WallStreetBets and Robinhood
  (2:21:25) - Advice for young people
  (2:23:15) - Human condition
  (2:25:43) - Fear is a cage
  (2:30:34) - Love
  (2:36:57) - Regrets

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