Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2025-03-29
Books mentioned on 154. Can Robots Get a Grip?
Ken Goldberg is at the forefront of robotics — which means he tries to teach machines to do things humans find trivial. SOURCES:Ken Goldberg, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at U.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Discussed“Steve you're familiar with the two cultures book by CP snow”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Mind children
“that's a what does that mean oh okay so this is uh Rich Sutton who just won the um touring award reinforcement learning was his subject and he wrote books about it”