Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
February 5, 2020
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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
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<p>Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He’s known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processors, and co-author of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect.</p>
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<p>00:00 – Introduction<br />
02:12 – Difference between a computer and a human brain<br />
03:43 – Computer abstraction layers and parallelism<br />
17:53 – If you run a program multiple times, do you always get the same answer?<br />
20:43 – Building computers and teams of people<br />
22:41 – Start from scratch every 5 years<br />
30:05 – Moore’s law is not dead<br />
55:47 – Is superintelligence the next layer of abstraction?<br />
1:00:02 – Is the universe a computer?<br />
1:03:00 – Ray Kurzweil and exponential improvement in technology<br />
1:04:33 – Elon Musk and Tesla Autopilot<br />
1:20:51 – Lessons from working with Elon Musk<br />
1:28:33 – Existential threats from AI<br />
1:32:38 – Happiness and the meaning of life</p>