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GitHub Copilot
GitHub
“I love it ... I would pay for it”
“he's copilot I love it and it's free for me but I would pay for it yeah I think it's very good”— Andrej Karpathy
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Visual Studio Code
Microsoft
“I believe that's the best IDE”
“I think the current answer is vs code currently I believe that's the best IDE it's got a huge amount of extensions”— Andrej Karpathy
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The Vital Question
Nick Lane
“the vital question is a good one”
“I think in biology as an example the vital question is a good one anything by McLean really”— Andrej Karpathy
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Life Ascending
Nick Lane
“I would say is like a bit more potentially representative as like a summary”
“life ascending I would say is like a bit more potentially representative as like a summary of a lot of the things he's been talking about”— Andrej Karpathy
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
“I was very impacted by the selfish Gene I thought that was a really good book”
“I was very impacted by the selfish Gene I thought that was a really good book that helped me understand altruism”— Andrej Karpathy
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The Cell (Molecular Biology of the Cell)
Bruce Alberts et al. (inferred)
“I think the cell was pretty cool”
“I like textbooks I like the cell I think the cell was pretty cool”— Andrej Karpathy
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Interstellar
Christopher Nolan (inferred)
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching”
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching Interstellar Gladiator contact Goodwill Hunting The Matrix”— Andrej Karpathy
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Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant (inferred)
“it's just a beautiful movie”
“I really like this torture genius sort of character who's like grappling with whether or not he has any responsibility ... it's just a beautiful movie”— Andrej Karpathy
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The Matrix
The Wachowskis (inferred)
“so many properties that make it like beautiful and interesting”
“there's so many properties that make it like beautiful and interesting ... it was just like innovating in so many ways”— Andrej Karpathy
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James Cameron (inferred)
“I like Terminator 2 a little bit more”
“Lord of the Rings that's self-explanatory Terminator 2 which is interesting you we watch that a lot ... I like Terminator 2 a little bit more”— Andrej Karpathy
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Gladiator
Ridley Scott (inferred)
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching”
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching Interstellar Gladiator contact Goodwill Hunting”— Andrej Karpathy
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Contact
Robert Zemeckis (inferred)
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching”
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching Interstellar Gladiator contact Goodwill Hunting”— Andrej Karpathy
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The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Peter Jackson (inferred)
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching”
“Goodwill Hunting The Matrix Lord of the Rings all three Avatar Fifth Element”— Andrej Karpathy
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Avatar
James Cameron (inferred)
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching”
“The Matrix Lord of the Rings all three Avatar Fifth Element so on goes on Terminator two”— Andrej Karpathy
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The Fifth Element
Luc Besson (inferred)
“movies that I've seen five plus times but I'm ready and willing to keep watching”
“Lord of the Rings all three Avatar Fifth Element so on goes on Terminator two Mean Girls”— Andrej Karpathy
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Mean Girls
Mark Waters (inferred)
“mean girls is great”
“Terminator two Mean Girls I'm not gonna ask about that mean girls is great”— Lex Fridman
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Contact
Carl Sagan
“in the book contact Carl Sagan there's a message for Humanity for any civilization in digits in the expansion of Pi in base 11”— Andrej Karpathy
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams (inferred)
“if like an Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy we would summarize the story of Earth so in that book it's mostly harmless”— Lex Fridman
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (inferred)
“there's a artificial intelligence a modern approach I actually haven't read if it's come out the recent version”— Andrej Karpathy
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OpenAI Whisper
OpenAI
“I definitely was surprised that transcription with openai's whisper was working so well compared to what I'm familiar with from Siri”— Andrej Karpathy
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Stable Diffusion
Stability AI (inferred)
“the stable diffusion images are incredible it's the speed of improvement in generating images has been insane”— Andrej Karpathy
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