Day in the life of Andrej Karpathy | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
Summary
TLDR安德烈·卡帕西分享了他作为AI领域内最高效、最聪明的人之一的日常生活。他不是早起的人,而是夜猫子,喜欢在凌晨3点睡觉,享受宁静的工作时间。他认为,要提高生产力,需要在没有太多干扰的情况下积累动力,全神贯注于问题,并在日常生活中保持一定的规律。他也提到了饮食对精神集中和幸福感的影响,包括间歇性禁食和以植物为基础的饮食。
Takeaways
- 🌙 安德烈·卡帕西(Andrej Karpathy)是一个夜猫子,他更喜欢在晚上工作,因为这段时间非常安静,有利于集中精力工作。
- ⏰ 他通常在早上8点或9点醒来,而在他的博士生涯中,他甚至更晚,通常在凌晨3点才睡觉。
- 💡 安德烈认为,要提高生产力,需要在没有太多干扰的情况下,对问题建立动力,并在日常生活中不断思考问题。
- 📈 他强调了在解决问题时避免各种形式的干扰的重要性,包括新闻、电子邮件以及其他有趣项目的干扰。
- ☕ 安德烈早上会喝咖啡,浏览新闻,如Twitter、Hacker News和华尔街日报,这是他日常生活的一部分。
- 🌟 他提到,为了真正解决问题并提高生产力,他需要几天的时间来专注于问题,而不受打扰。
- 🚫 安德烈不喜欢工作中的短暂打扰,他认为这会消耗大量时间,比如SSH登录集群、设置开发环境等。
- 🧘♂️ 他实践间歇性禁食,通常遵循18/6的模式,即从中午12点到晚上6点之间进食。
- 🌿 安德烈倾向于植物为基础的饮食,他称之为“植物先行”,这意味着他更喜欢食用植物性食物。
- 🏋️♂️ 他提到,当他对某个问题着迷时,他会更有动力去解决问题,即使面临困难和挑战。
- 🤔 安德烈认为,工作与生活的平衡是好的,但他也享受偶尔的冲刺,这使他更有创造力。
Q & A
安德烈·卡帕西是如何描述自己的作息习惯的?
-安德烈·卡帕西表示自己是一个夜猫子,他不是早起的人。在他的博士期间,他通常在凌晨3点睡觉,认为凌晨的时间非常宝贵和有趣,因为那时候非常安静,可以专心工作。
安德烈认为什么是提高工作效率的关键?
-安德烈认为提高工作效率的关键是在没有太多干扰的情况下,对问题建立动力,并且需要在工作记忆中加载问题,以至于在洗澡或睡觉时都在思考这个问题,达到一种痴迷的状态。
安德烈提到了哪些活动或习惯会分散他的注意力?
-安德烈提到新闻、电子邮件以及其他有趣的项目都可能分散他的注意力。他强调需要避免所有形式的干扰,包括社交媒体和之前或当前正在进行的其他项目。
安德烈如何安排他的一天以提高生产力?
-安德烈提到他喜欢在夜间工作,并且他的日常安排包括早上喝咖啡、阅读新闻、查看Twitter、Hacker News和华尔街日报等。他强调需要一段时间来专注于问题,并且不喜欢被打扰。
安德烈如何看待在特斯拉工作时的工作生活平衡?
-安德烈认为特斯拉的工作环境比较紧张,是一个爆发性的环境,有时候会非常忙碌,需要努力工作。但他也提到,这种忙碌是间歇性的,并不是持续的疯狂状态。
安德烈对于饮食有何见解,他是否有进行间歇性禁食?
-安德烈实行间歇性禁食,他通常跳过早餐,从中午12点吃到下午6点。他也会进行一些饮食实验,比如尝试植物为主的饮食。
安德烈是否有尝试过长时间的禁食?
-安德烈尝试过长时间的水禁食,他好奇会发生什么,发现在禁食几天后,身体似乎找到了其他的能量来源,不再感到饥饿。
安德烈如何描述他在特斯拉的工作经历?
-安德烈提到在特斯拉工作时,需要付出很多努力,推动人们达到他们的极限。他认为特斯拉的环境比他在谷歌或DeepMind的实习经历更加紧张。
安德烈如何看待工作中的冲刺期?
-安德烈认为他最有创造力的时候是在偶尔的冲刺期,这些时期他非常痴迷于某个问题,并且想要尽快解决它。他认为这种冲刺期对于创新和生产力非常重要。
安德烈对于工作和生活平衡的看法是什么?
-安德烈认为平衡是好的,但他也喜欢偶尔的冲刺期,这些时期他会非常专注于某个问题。他认为这种偶尔的专注和痴迷对于工作和创新是必要的。
安德烈提到了哪些因素会影响他的幸福感和工作效率?
-安德烈提到,当他对某个问题非常痴迷并且想要创造出某些东西时,他会忽略困难和挑战。此外,如果其他人欣赏他的工作并对他表示满意,这也会给他带来快乐,因为他知道自己在做有用的事情。
安德烈如何看待社会对于时间的看法,特别是对于请求他人时间的行为?
-安德烈认为社会需要改变对时间的看法,特别是对于请求他人时间的行为。他强调,即使是短暂的打扰,也会对工作效率产生很大的影响,因为重新进入工作状态需要时间和努力。
Outlines
🌙 夜猫子的高效生活
这段视频脚本介绍了Andrej Karpathy的日常生活和工作效率。他不是早起的人,而是夜猫子,喜欢在深夜工作,因为那时候安静,可以不受打扰地专注于工作。他强调了在解决问题时建立动力、避免分心以及让问题充满自己的工作记忆的重要性。他还提到了在特斯拉工作时的挑战,以及如何通过消除障碍和专注于问题来提高生产力。
💡 创造的动力与健康习惯
在这段视频中,Andrej Karpathy讨论了他对工作的执着,以及这种执着如何帮助他克服技术问题和设计决策。他还提到了他人的欣赏和认可对他工作动力的重要性。此外,他分享了自己的饮食习惯,包括间歇性禁食和植物为主的饮食,以及这些习惯如何影响他的专注力和幸福感。
🏃♂️ 工作和生活的平衡
Andrej Karpathy在这段视频中探讨了工作与生活平衡的概念,以及他在特斯拉工作时的高压环境。他认为,虽然需要有平衡,但偶尔的冲刺和对工作的痴迷也是必要的,这有助于他的创造力和生产力。他还提到了社会对时间的误解,以及如何更好地管理时间和期望。
Mindmap
Keywords
💡生产力
💡作息习惯
💡专注
💡工作记忆
💡干扰
💡社会互动
💡自我激励
💡饮食习惯
💡工作生活平衡
💡社会认知
💡幸福感
Highlights
Andre分享了自己作为AI领域内最高效、最聪明的人之一的日常生活。
他不是早起的人,而是夜猫子,通常在晚上8点到9点醒来。
在攻读博士期间,他的作息更加晚,通常凌晨3点才睡觉。
他认为凌晨的时间非常宝贵,因为那时候非常安静,有利于工作。
Andre强调了在解决问题时积累动力的重要性,需要在不受干扰的情况下全神贯注。
他提到,为了高效工作,需要将问题完全加载到工作记忆中,并对此问题着迷。
Andre认为,高效工作不是一天的事情,而是一个持续几天的过程。
他分享了自己在特斯拉工作时,如何努力在小项目上保持专注。
Andre提到,为了高效工作,需要移除所有障碍,包括新闻故事、电子邮件等干扰。
他承认,即使在非常高效的日子里,他每天编码的时间也只有六到八小时。
Andre解释说,生活中的许多事情,如通勤、交谈、吃饭等,都需要时间。
他提到,人类大脑有一种欲望,想要参与社会活动,这创造了生活中的“填充物”。
Andre分享了自己如何通过专注于问题来克服长时间的专注和艰难的日子。
他谈到了饮食对精神集中和生产力的影响,包括间歇性禁食和植物为基础的饮食。
Andre提到,他默认遵循18/6的间歇性禁食模式,并且他更喜欢植物为基础的饮食。
他解释了为什么不喜欢一天只吃一餐的饮食方式,因为它让他感觉不好。
Andre分享了他进行水断食的经历,以及在断食几天后不再感到饥饿的奇怪感觉。
他承认,尽管他更喜欢在夜晚工作,但很难维持他在攻读博士期间的作息时间。
Andre讨论了在特斯拉工作时的工作环境,以及如何平衡工作和社交活动。
他分享了自己对于工作与生活平衡的看法,以及如何在日常生活中保持这种平衡。
Transcripts
a lot of people want to know you're one
of the most productive and brilliant
people in the history of AI what is a
productive day in the life of Andre
carpathy look like
what time do you wake up usually because
imagine
um some kind of dance between the
average productive day and a perfect
productive day so the perfect productive
day is the thing we strive
towards and the average is kind of what
it kind of converges to getting all the
mistakes and human eventualities and so
on yeah so what time do you wake up are
you morning person I'm not a morning
person I'm a night owl for sure is it
stable or not that's semi-stable like a
809 or something like that during my PhD
it was even later I used to go to sleep
usually at 3am I think uh the am hours
are are precious and very interesting
time to work because everyone is asleep
um at 8 AM or 7 A.M the east coast is
awake so there's already activity
there's already some text messages
whatever there's stuff happening you can
go on like some news website and there's
stuff happening it's distracting uh at
3am everything is totally quiet and so
you're not going to be bothered and you
have solid chunks of time to do the work
um
so I like those periods Night Owl by
default and then I think like productive
time basically
um what I like to do is you need you
need to like build some momentum on the
problem without too much distraction and
um you need to load your Ram uh your
working memory with that problem
and then you need to be obsessed with it
when you're taking shower when you're
falling asleep you need to be obsessed
with the problem and it's fully in your
memory and you're ready to wake up and
work on it right there so there's a
scale of uh is this in a scale temporal
scale of a single day or a couple of
days a week a month so I can't talk
about one day basically in isolation
because it's a whole process when I want
to get when I want to get productive in
the problem I feel like I need a span of
a few days where I can really get in on
that problem and I don't want to be
interrupted and I'm going to just uh be
completely obsessed with that problem
and that's where I do most of my good
workouts
you've done a bunch of cool like little
projects in a very short amount of time
very quickly so that that requires you
just focusing on it yeah basically I
need to load my working memory with the
problem and I need to be productive
because there's always like a huge fixed
cost to approaching any problem uh you
know like I was struggling with this for
example at Tesla because I want to work
on like small side projects but okay you
first need to figure out okay I need to
SSH into my cluster I need to bring up a
vs code editor so I can like work on
this I need to I run into some stupid
error because of some reason like you're
not at a point where you can be just
productive right away you are facing
barriers and so it's about uh really
removing all that barrier and you're
able to go into the problem and you have
the full problem loaded in your memory
and somehow avoiding distractions of all
different forms like uh news stories
emails but also distractions from other
interesting projects that you previously
worked on are currently working on and
so on you just want to really focus your
mind and I mean I can take some time off
for distractions and in between but I
think it can't be too much uh you know
most of your day is sort of like spent
on that problem and then you know I
drink coffee I have my morning routine I
look at some news uh Twitter Hacker News
Wall Street Journal Etc so he's great so
basically you wake up you have some
coffee are you trying to get to work as
quickly as possible do you do taking
this diet of of like what the hell's
happening in the world first I am I do
find it interesting to know about the
world I don't know that it's useful or
good but it is part of my routine right
now so I do read through a bunch of news
articles and I want to be informed and
um I'm suspicious of it I'm suspicious
of the practice but currently that's
where I am Oh you mean suspicious about
the positive effect yeah of that
practice on your productivity and your
well-being my well-being psychologically
uh and also on your ability to deeply
understand the world because how there's
a bunch of sources of information you're
not really focused on deeply integrating
yeah it's a little bit distracting or
yeah in terms of a perfectly productive
day for how long of a stretch of time
in one session do you try to work and
focus on a thing it's a couple hours is
it one hours and 30 minutes is 10
minutes I can probably go like a small
few hours and then I need some breaks in
between for like food and stuff and uh
yeah but I think like uh it's still
really hard to accumulate hours I was
using a Tracker that told me exactly how
much time I've spent coding any one day
and even on a very productive day I
still spent only like six or eight hours
yeah and it's just because there's so
much padding commute talking to people
food Etc there's like a cost of life
just living and sustaining and
homeostasis and just maintaining
yourself as a human is very high
and and that there seems to be a desire
within the human mind to to uh to
participate in society that creates that
padding yeah because I yeah the most
productive days I've ever had is just
completely from start to finish just
tuning out everything yeah and just
sitting there and then and then you
could do more than six and eight hours
yeah is there some wisdom about what
gives you strength to do like uh tough
days of long Focus
yeah just like whenever I get obsessed
about a problem something just needs to
work some just needs to exist it needs
to exist and you so you're able to deal
with bugs and programming issues and
technical issues and uh design decisions
that turn out to be the wrong ones
you're able to think through all of that
given given that you want that thing to
exist yeah it needs to exist and then I
think to me also a big factor is uh you
know are other humans are going to
appreciate it are they going to like it
that's a big part of my motivation if
I'm helping humans and they seem happy
they say nice things uh they tweet about
it or whatever that gives me pleasure
because I'm doing something useful so
like you do see yourself sharing it with
the world like with this on GitHub is a
blog post or through videos yeah I was
thinking about it like suppose I did all
these things but did not share them I
don't think I would have the same amount
of motivation that I can build up you
enjoy the feeling of other people
uh gaining value and happiness from the
stuff you've created yeah
uh what about diet
is there I saw you playing with
intermittent fast do you fast does that
help with everything
well the things you played what's been
most beneficial to the your ability to
mentally focus on a thing and just meant
the mental productivity and happiness
you still fast yeah it's so fast but I
do intermittent fasting but really what
it means at the end of the day is I skip
breakfast yeah so I do uh 18 6 roughly
by default when I'm in my steady state
if I'm traveling or doing something else
I will break the rules but in my steady
state I do 18 6 so I eat only from 12 to
6. not a hard Rule and I break it often
but that's my default and then um yeah
I've done a bunch of random experiments
for the most part right now where I've
been for the last year and a half I want
to say is I'm um plant-based or planned
forward I heard plant forward it sounds
better exactly I didn't actually know
the differences but it sounds better in
my mind but it just means I prefer
plant-based food and raw or cooked or I
prefer cooked and blunt paste so
plant-based
oh forgive me I don't actually know how
wide the category of planned entails
Wellness just means that you're not uh
and you can flex and uh you just prefer
to eat plants and you know you're not
making you're not trying to influence
other people and if someone is you come
to someone's house party and they serve
you a steak that they're really proud of
you will eat it yes right it's just not
judgment oh that's beautiful I mean
that's
um on the flip side of that but I'm very
sort of flexible have you tried doing
one meal a day I have uh accidentally
not consistently but I've accidentally
had that I don't I don't like it I think
it makes me feel uh not good it's too
it's too much too much of a hit yeah and
uh So currently I have about two meals a
day 12 and six I do that non-stop I'm
doing it now I'm doing one meal a day
okay it's interesting it's an
interesting feeling have you ever fasted
longer than a day yeah I've done a bunch
of water fasts because I was curious
what happens uh anything interesting
yeah I would say so I mean you know
what's interesting is that you're hungry
for two days and then starting day three
or so you're not hungry you know it's
like such a weird feeling because you
haven't eaten in a few days and you're
not hungry isn't that weird it's really
one of the many weird things about human
biology is figure something out it finds
finds another source of energy or
something like that or uh relaxes the
system I don't know how yeah the body is
like you're hungry you're hungry and
then it just gives up it's like okay I
guess we're fasting now there's nothing
and then it's just kind of like focuses
on trying to make you not hungry uh and
you know not feel the the damage of that
and uh trying to give you some space to
figure out the food situation so are you
still to this day most productive uh at
night
I would say I am but it is really hard
to maintain my PhD schedule
um especially when I was say working at
Tesla and so on it's a non-starter uh so
but even now like you know people want
to meet for
various events they Society lives in a
certain period of time and you sort of
have to like work so that's it's hard to
like do a social thing and then after
that return and do work yeah it's just
really hard
uh that's why I try when I do social
things I try not to do too uh too much
drinking so I can return and continue
doing work
um but a Tesla is there is there
conversions in Tesla but any any company
is there a convergence towards the
schedule or is there more
is that how humans behave when they
collaborate I need to learn about this
yeah do they try to keep a consistent
schedule you're all awake at the same
time I mean I do try to create a routine
and I try to create a steady state in
which I'm uh comfortable in uh so I have
a morning routine I have a day routine I
try to keep things to a steady state and
um things are predictable and then you
can sort of just like your body just
sort of like sticks to that and if you
try to stress that a little too much it
will create uh you know when you're
traveling and you're dealing with jet
lag you're not able to really Ascend to
you know where you need to go yeah yeah
that's weird as humans with the habits
and stuff uh what are your thoughts on
work-life balance throughout a human
lifetime
so the testing part was known for sort
of pushing people to their limits
in terms of what they're able to do in
terms of what they're uh trying to do in
terms of how much they work all that
kind of stuff yeah I mean I will say
Tesla gets a little too much uh bad rep
for this because what's happening is
Tesla is a it's a bursty environment so
I would say the Baseline uh my only
point of reference is Google where I've
interned three times and I saw what it's
like inside Google and deepmind
um I would say the Baseline is higher
than that but then there's a punctuated
equilibrium where once in a while
there's a fire and uh someone like
people work really hard and so it's
spiky and bursty and then all the
stories get collected about the bursts
yeah and then it gives the appearance of
like total insanity but actually it's
just a bit more intense environment and
there are fires and Sprints and so I
think uh you know definitely though I I
would say
um it's a more intense environment than
something you would get well you in your
personal forget all of that just in your
own personal life what do you think
about
the happiness of a human being a
brilliant person like yourself
about finding a balance between work and
life or is it such a thing not a good
thought experiment
yeah I think I think balance is good but
I also love to have Sprints that are out
of distribution and that's when I think
I've been pretty uh creative and
um as well Sprints out of distribution
means that most of the time
you you have uh yeah quote-unquote
balance I have balance most of the time
I like being obsessed with something
once in a while once in a while is what
once a week once a month once a year
yeah probably like say once a month or
something yeah and that's when we get a
new GitHub repo come on yeah that's when
you like really care about a problem it
must exist this will be awesome you're
obsessed with it and now you can't just
do it on that day you need to pay the
fixed cost of getting into the groove
and then you need to stay there for a
while and then Society will come and
they will try to mess with you and they
will try to distract you yeah yeah the
worst thing is like a person who's like
I just need five minutes of your time
yeah this is the cost of that is not
five minutes and Society needs to change
how it thinks about just five minutes of
your time right it's never it's never
just one minute it's just 30. it's just
a quick what's the big deal why are you
being so yeah no
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