Podcasts that mention 📚 Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

my choice is um so the one book that really influenced me a lot when i was building starting out this company maybe 10 years ago uh was gb go to leicester block and um i like everything about it

Eugenia lists this as one of the three books that had a big impact on her, mentioning its ideas about complexity and meaning emerging from simple components.

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douglas hofstadter author of get olestra bach was your PhD adviser

The host mentions Douglas Hofstadter and his famous book.

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I can say that is I read girdle eer Bach when I was in high school that was pretty formative for me because it exposed uh the interestingness of Primitives and combination and how you can make complex things out of simple parts and ideas of AI

Leslie Kaelbling mentions reading this book in high school and how it was formative for her interest in AI, exposing her to ideas about complex systems from simple parts.

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I think the most the most influential thing that I read in my early 20s was girlish ABBA that was about consciousness and that was a big eye-opener in in some sense

Guido van Rossum mentions this book as highly influential in his early 20s, particularly regarding consciousness.

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