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David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #44
Lex Fridman
A key knowledge source used by Watson to answer Jeopardy! questions, among other encyclopedic data.

Tim Ferriss and Matt Mullenweg Get Personal in Antarctica
Tim Ferriss
A free online encyclopedia, portions of which Matt Mullenweg downloaded for offline use in Antarctica due to lack of internet access.

Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading | Lex Fridman Podcast #159
Lex Fridman
An online encyclopedia praised for its model of collective human effort in democratizing information and creating something 'incredible'.

Q&A Extravaganza (Episode 58)
Stronger By Science
An online encyclopedia used as a reference to support the argument that cereal can be considered a soup, particularly by noting the existence of dessert soups and fruit soups.

JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
All-In Podcast
A free online encyclopedia, mentioned as a knowledge source whose content AI models can ingest and reformulate.

The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
Latent Space
Jeremy Howard trained a large language model on Wikipedia, seeing it as a significant corpus of text that could teach a model about the world.

Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion | Lex Fridman Podcast #157
Lex Fridman
An online encyclopedia, praised by Lex Fridman as one of humanity's greatest accomplishments for its open community and knowledge preservation.

FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact
Latent Space
Used as an analogy for a potential collaborative model for data set creation and annotation in AI.

E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
All-In Podcast
A free online encyclopedia, used as an example of a platform that links with citations.

Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #208
Lex Fridman
Mentioned as a potential repository of human knowledge to be preserved for future civilizations or aliens, but also questioned if it captures essential human experience.

Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm and The Powerful World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
An online encyclopedia used to look up the etymology and definition of 'koan'.

Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
A platform where Joyce Carol Oates' bibliography is so extensive it has its own separate entry.

Protein & Kidney Function; Cholesterol & Training Adaptations (Episode 49)
Stronger By Science
An online encyclopedia, quoted for its definition of lipid rafts.

⚡️Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect
Latent Space
Used as a source for search results in experiments for evaluating tool use in RL, specifically for retrieving information to answer questions.

E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
All-In Podcast
A free online encyclopedia, used as an example of Creative Commons data that anyone can use for training AI models, contrasting with proprietary data sources.

Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
An online encyclopedia, used as an analogy for the data structure created by Dartmouth researchers for Indian villages.

What is Wolfram Language? (Stephen Wolfram) | AI Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman
An example of a large aggregation of text that has not yet been converted into computable knowledge, contrasted with Wolfram's goal of computable knowledge representation.

Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89
Lex Fridman
A free online encyclopedia, discussed as a large aggregation of text that is not converted into computable knowledge, unlike Wolfram's vision.

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191
Lex Fridman
An online encyclopedia serving as an example of open-source, collaboratively built information commons, lauded for its positive impact on public knowledge.

Philosophy and the Good Life: A Conversation with Kieran Setiya (Episode #295)
Sam Harris
Mentioned in the context of how striking philosophical arguments can be made, drawing parallels to scientific understanding and the underdetermination of theory by data.

Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144
Lex Fridman
Online encyclopedia seen by Lex Fridman as a collective intelligence, preferable to social media if AGI embodied its values.

Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia’s Real Genesis Story, The Questioning Mind, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
The online non-profit encyclopedia founded by Jimmy Wales, known for its user-generated content and community-driven moderation.

What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias (Episode #293)
Sam Harris
Mentioned in the context of platform moderation and censorship, particularly regarding how it handles edits.

Jeremi Suri: History of American Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #180
Lex Fridman
Compared to Google's mission of making information accessible, highlighting its incredible contribution.