Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-01-11
Books mentioned on #153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI
Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at WPI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Brave: https://brave.
Dmitry Korkin recommended The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, November 1916: A Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Computer and the Brain by John von Neumann, and Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. Lex Fridman discussed The World Computer by Jonathan Beller and The Brain in Context by Jonathan D. Moreno and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is an absolute masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature that weaves together parallel narratives featuring the devil visiting the Soviet Union alongside a philosophical story about Pontius Pilate.
Recommended“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 so it is incredibly powerful and i mean it's the the way it ends right so it's it's i i”
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The Master & Margarita
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is a celebrated satirical masterpiece that weaves together a Moscow visit by the devil, a novel about Pontius Pilate, and a profound love story.
Recommended“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”
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Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel set in a Soviet hospital, examining human dignity, mortality, and the oppressive nature of totalitarianism.
Recommended“so 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”
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November 1916: A Novel
November 1916: A Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a historical fiction epic that forms part of the author's expansive wheel cycle examining the events leading up to and during the Russian Revolution.
Recommended“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”
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The World Computer
Discussed“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”
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The Brain in Context
Discussed“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”
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The Computer and the Brain
The Computer and the Brain by John von Neumann is a seminal exploration of the parallels between human neurological systems and early computing machines.
Recommended“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”
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Lab Girl
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is a celebrated memoir by a geobiologist that chronicles her life in science, her deep fascination with the natural world, and her pioneering research on plants and trees.
Recommended“so and this is i mean the reason i put it sort of in this separate section because this is a book that i reasonably recent uh uh recently listened to so so it's an audio book and this is a book called lab girl by hope jaron”
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