Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2018-12-16
Books mentioned on Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and is one of the top researchers in the world working on how to make robots understand and interact with the world around them, especially through imitation and deep reinforcement learning. Video version is available on YouTube.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S.
Discussed“so when I first picked up Sutton's Richard Sutton's reinforcement learning book before sort of this deep learning before the re-emergence of neural networks is a powerful mechanism for machine learning”
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a comprehensive historical and data-driven study that argues violence has steadily declined over the course of human history.
Discussed“well if you look at Steven Pinker he highlights is pretty nicely in better better angels of our nature where he talks about violence decreasing over time consistently”
