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Episode: Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #153

Published on January 11, 2021

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

Cancer Ward Cover

Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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so the second one is again another one that uh it happened uh i read it uh later in my life i think uh i read it first time when i was a a a graduate student and that's uh the solzhenitsyn's uh cancer ward that is an amazingly powerful book it's what is it about

Dmitry recommends this book, mentioning the author and title and describing its themes.

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November 1916: A Novel Cover

November 1916: A Novel

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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him being a part of the of the you know of someone sent to the to gulag camp right and also someone who who experienced cancer in his life you know the the good luck archipelago and this book these are the works that actually made him uh you know receive a nobel prize

Dmitry mentions this book as one of Solzhenitsyn's works that contributed to his Nobel Prize, alongside 'Cancer Ward'.

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The Brain in Context

by Jonathan D. Moreno, Jay Schulkin

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so this is the book which it's not even a book it's a it's an essay by uh jonathan neumann called the computer and the brain and that was the thing the book he was writing knowing that he he was dying of cancer

Dmitry recommends this book/essay, mentioning the author and title and its context.

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The Master & Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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uh it's bulgakov's master and margarita so that's probably you know well not for russian maybe it's not super original but it's you know it's it's a really powerful book for uh even in english so i write it in english

Dmitry recommends this book, mentioning the author and title.

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The World Computer

by Jonathan Beller

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so this is the book which it's not even a book it's a it's an essay by uh jonathan neumann called the computer and the brain and that was the thing the book he was writing knowing that he he was dying of cancer

Dmitry recommends this book/essay, mentioning the author and title and its context.

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