This product by Anki has come up 8 times on Lex Fridman. 7 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Charan Ranganath, Jeremy Howard, Lex Fridman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2019-08-27 and the most recent from 2024-05-25. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430
“another thing I recommend for people a lot is I use anky a lot every day it's a app that does space repetition”— Charan Ranganath
The guest here is Charan Ranganath: A psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis specializing in human memory, where he runs a lab using fMRI and other methods to study how the brain encodes and retrieves events. He is the author of 'Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold On to What Matters.'. Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath explains how human memory works as a reconstructive, predictive system shaping identity, imagination, false memories, and our sense of time.
Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264
“it's an app called anki i don't know if you don't know about it it's a space repetition app”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Tim Urban: Author and illustrator behind the popular blog Wait But Why, known for deeply researched stick-figure explainers on AI, space, Neuralink, and human psychology. Tim Urban riffs with Lex Fridman on aliens, Mars colonization, Neuralink, Elon's first-principles mind, polarization, and beating procrastination.
Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264
“what anki does is like literally it determines for me i don't have to do anything there's this giant pile of things i've saved”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Tim Urban: Author and illustrator behind the popular blog Wait But Why, known for deeply researched stick-figure explainers on AI, space, Neuralink, and human psychology. Tim Urban riffs with Lex Fridman on aliens, Mars colonization, Neuralink, Elon's first-principles mind, polarization, and beating procrastination.
Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #241
“in the case of drive this was a parallel of the racing genre and the goal was to effectively have a physical racing experience”— guest
The guest here is Boris Sofman: Senior director of engineering and head of trucking at Waymo, and former co-founder/CEO of Anki, the robotics company that created the social robot Cozmo. A Carnegie Mellon robotics PhD focused on applied robotics and AI. Anki founder turned Waymo trucking lead Boris Sofman on why character beats humanoid form, why Cozmo died, and how autonomous trucks really get to driverless.
Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing | Lex Fridman Podcast #183
“i've been using anki it's an app for helps you memorize things and i've actually just a few months ago started doing this daily”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Po-Shen Loh: Carnegie Mellon mathematics professor and national coach of the USA International Math Olympiad team. Founder of the education platform Expii and the privacy-first contact-tracing app NOVID. Math Olympiad coach Po-Shen Loh explains how to teach invention, why hard problems are beautiful, and his incentive-aligned approach to stopping pandemics.
Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #176
“I use it for I'm terrible with names so I'm started to use it for names too of names of people I recommend it highly”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Robert Breedlove: A philosopher of money and Bitcoin advocate, former crypto hedge-fund manager and CPA, and host of the 'What Is Money?' podcast known for marathon first-principles explorations of economics and civilization. Robert Breedlove builds a sweeping first-principles case that money is speech, energy, and morality, and that Bitcoin fixes the world by fixing the money.
Kate Darling: Social Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #98
“Anki and Gebo the two companies two amazing companies social robotics companies that have recently been closed down”— guest
The guest here is Kate Darling: A researcher at MIT Media Lab specializing in social robotics and robot ethics. She studies the emotional connections humans form with lifelike machines and how technology intersects with society. MIT researcher Kate Darling explains why we treat robots like living things and what that reveals about human empathy.
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35
“I used Anki quite a lot myself... I actually don't ever talk to anybody about it... but it works incredibly well for me”— Jeremy Howard
The guest here is Jeremy Howard: Founder of fast.ai, distinguished research scientist at University of San Francisco, former president and top-ranked competitor at Kaggle, and serial entrepreneur (founded FastMail and Enlitic). fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard on making deep learning accessible, training fast on a single GPU, and why anyone can do it.
