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Kieran Kunhya

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1922 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And this is also why it's handwritten.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

I don't know anyone.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

I've never heard any other project than David doing that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

This is why Kiran calls it an art, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It is an art.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

per dollar invested, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And sometimes it's going to be a problem that is limited by your hardware.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

A good analogy is what you see in quantization in LLMs, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And people are doing, oh, I'm going to do that in FP8 or FP4 or some crazy things like Microsoft Fear who did it in 1.5.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Because you're constrained by memory, because you're constrained by the machine you can run, because at some point we are doing real time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And I believe this is going to happen on AI inference also, is that at some point you need to get faster and you cannot always get harder, more powerful hardware, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

So you need to analyze code and see where, like, where is the mission critical?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Where is the things that are called non-stops?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And for example, David is a good example.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It's going to be run,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

billions of hours per day.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

That makes sense.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It doesn't make sense to be on the glue of FFmpeg CLI.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It makes sense over there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

We are also arriving at a point where we've done so many great things, but the hardware is getting back to us, right?