Dwarkesh Podcast

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Dwarkesh Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Dwarkesh Patel, with 142 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dwarkesh Patel hosts Dwarkesh Podcast, a technology show with 142 episodes published.

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  Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

  May 22, 20261h 21mS0

  <p>New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.</p><p>Reiner is CEO of MatX, a new chip startup (full disclosure - I’m an angel investor). He was previously at Google, where he worked on software efficiency, compilers, and TPU architecture.</p><p>Watch this one on YouTube so you can see the chalkboard. Read the transcript.</p><p>Sponsors</p><p>* Crusoe was one of only five GPU clouds that ma...

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  Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

  May 15, 20262h 37mS0

  <p>Eric Jang walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools.</p><p>Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play. You have to go back to 2017 to get insight into how the more general AIs of the future might learn.</p><p>Once he explained how AlphaGo works, it gave us the context to have a discussion about how RL works in LLMs and how it could work better – naive policy gradient RL has to fi...

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  David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution

  May 8, 20262h 13mS0

  <p>David Reich is back.</p><p>He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — that natural selection has been dormant in our species since the agricultural revolution.</p><p>By scaling ancient DNA sequencing and developing a new statistical method, they found that selection has actually sped up.</p><p>Selection went especially bonkers during the Bronze Age (around 3,000 years ago).</p><p>That’s when gene frequencies for everything from immune function to body fat to intelligence were most in flux.</p><p>Over the last 10,000 years, selection pushed the...

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  Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

  Apr 29, 20262h 14mS0

  <p>Did a very different format with Reiner Pope - a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served.</p><p>It’s shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations, public API prices, and some chalk.</p><p>It’s a bit technical, but I encourage you to hang in there – it’s really worth it.</p><p>There are less than a handful of people who understand the full stack of AI, from chip design to model architecture, as well as Reiner. It was a real d...

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  Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

  Apr 15, 20261h 43mS0

  <p>I asked Jensen about TPU competition, Nvidia’s lock on the ever more bottlenecked supply chain needed to make advanced chips, whether we should be selling AI chips to China, why Nvidia doesn’t just become a hyperscaler, how it makes its investments, and much more. Enjoy!</p><p>Watch on YouTube; read the transcript.</p><p>Sponsors</p><p>* Crusoe’s cloud runs on state-of-the-art Blackwell GPUs, with Vera Rubin deployment scheduled for later this year. But hardware is only part of the story—for inference, Crusoe’s MemoryAlloy tech implements a cluster-wide KV cache, delivering up to 10x faster T...

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