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.C. Berkeley.
Ken Goldberg discussed The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow.
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”
Where to get it
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”