Our guests today are Christopher Thielen, product manager for languages and frameworks at Apple, and Josh Shaffer, a Senior Director of Software at Apple with a focus on Swift frameworks.
If you want to get the full picture of all the updates Apple announced for software developers, you can watch this year’s State of the Union or dive into particulars with 175 different videos focused on key elements of the announcements.
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:38) – Jiu-jitsu competition
(23:01) – AI and open source movement
(35:32) – Next AI model release
(47:48) – Future of AI at Meta
(1:08:25) – Bots
(1:23:53) – Censorship
(1:38:34) – Meta’s new social network
(1:45:20) – Elon Musk
(1:49:25) – Layoffs and firing
(1:56:55) – Hiring
(2:02:48) – Meta Quest 3
(2:09:45) – Apple Vision Pro
(2:16:00) – AI existential risk
(2:22:23) – Power
(2:25:55) – AGI timeline
(2:33:17) – Murph challenge
(2:38:33) – Embodied AGI
(2:41:39) – Faith
Prasad Kawthekar grew up in India, and eventually came stateside to school in Wisconsin. He took a java coding class, and was immediately hooked - which led to him pursuing computer science, focusing on artificial intelligence. He met his tribe during school, and stayed on for further academic experiences. Outside of tech, he lives in the Bay Area and enjoys being outside in nature.
There was a time in his previous role that he was searching for info related to his role. After 7 email threads and 8 weeks passing, he finally located the document. This experience blew him away, and seeded the problem he now seeks to solve.
Astro Teller is the CEO of X, Alphabet's moonshot division. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a taping in front of a live audience at Summit at Sea to discuss the calculations society must make around advancing AI research and how the technology can help the world. Listen for a dynamic discussion that digs into Teller's family history, the current 'moonshots' that X is taking, and whether AI moonshots should've stayed separate from Google for longer.
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Kwindla Kramer has always been interested in building things, and his parents gave him lots of opportunity. He spent his early days learning to program on the Commodore 64, and playing old games like Loadrunner. He was super interested in the internet while in College, and in 1996, he got the opportunity to be apart of the MIT Media lab. Outside of tech, he is a quasi vegan, and enjoys the foggy beach living on the western edge of San Francisco.
After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it.
Gilad Uziely is married with 2 daughters. He told me he met his wife on a taxi in Thailand, but that the story there was for a different podcast. He has always been an entrepreneur, along with his wife. They have built 2 small hotels in Italy, where his wife is from. Outside of tech and these things, he lives by the beach in Tel Aviv, and loves to surf.
Recently, Gilad and his team built a product called Lance (you might remember his co-founder Oona from Season 5). This was a Neo-bank for the self employed, which was built on the idea of stacks. When they figured out they needed to pivot, they moved towards focusing on financial routing.
MosaicML is a platform for training and deploying large AI models at scale. Explore their docs, check out their blog, and keep an eye on their open roles.
Jonathan Frankle is the Chief Scientist at MosaicML and an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard.
Bert Kreischer is a comedian, actor, and podcaster. Check him out on Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Something is Burning, and the new movie The Machine. 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
(05:08) – Hemingway
(08:34) – Putin
(11:53) – Churchill
(14:15) – Kim Jong Un
(16:15) – Drinking with Joe Rogan and Tom Segura
(24:42) – Father
(28:33) – Shirtless
(30:38) – Tom Segura
(41:27) – Joe Rogan
(44:16) – Dating advice
(52:24) – Key to success
(1:02:36) – Sleep and working out
(1:11:51) – History podcasts
(1:17:15) – Road trips
(1:23:46) – Beer
(1:33:14) – Exercise
(1:38:56) – Life of the Party
(1:46:39) – Drinking
(2:05:11) – Greatest comedian of all time
(2:07:59) – Advice for young people
Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo. 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
(06:38) – Mojo programming language
(16:55) – Code indentation
(25:22) – The power of autotuning
(35:12) – Typed programming languages
(51:56) – Immutability
(1:04:14) – Distributed deployment
(1:38:41) – Mojo vs CPython
(1:54:30) – Guido van Rossum
(2:01:31) – Mojo vs PyTorch vs TensorFlow
(2:04:55) – Swift programming language
(2:10:27) – Julia programming language
(2:15:32) – Switching programming languages
(2:24:58) – Mojo playground
(2:29:48) – Jeremy Howard
(2:40:34) – Function overloading
(2:48:59) – Error vs Exception
(2:56:39) – Mojo roadmap
(3:09:41) – Building a company
(3:21:27) – ChatGPT
(3:27:50) – Danger of AI
(3:31:44) – Future of programming
(3:35:01) – Advice for young people
