📚 5 Books mentioned in "Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #250" of Lex Fridman Podcast

but um i think that the beauty of scripting like there's a there's a python book that's uh called automate the boring stuff which is exactly the right mentality

Peter Wang mentions this Python book as having the right mentality for learning programming through scripting.

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and in his um follow-on book uh has a sequel to it called lila he goes into this in a little more detail

Peter Wang mentions this book as the sequel to 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by the same author, discussing it in more detail.

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Have you ever read like some sci-fi where um there's like hive minds uh like the vern revenge i think has one of these and then um some of the stuff from um yes on the commonwealth saga the idea that uh you're an individual but you're connected with like a few other individuals telepathically as well and together you form a swarm

Lex Fridman asks about sci-fi books featuring hive minds, mentioning 'the vern revenge'.

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Have you ever read like some sci-fi where um there's like hive minds uh like the vern revenge i think has one of these and then um some of the stuff from um yes on the commonwealth saga the idea that uh you're an individual but you're connected with like a few other individuals telepathically as well and together you form a swarm

Lex Fridman asks about sci-fi books featuring hive minds, mentioning 'the commonwealth saga'.

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so i'm just stealing wholesale here from robert persig who is the author of zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance

Peter Wang mentions this book and its author as the source for his multi-layered view of human beings.

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