Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2018-12-16

Lex Fridman & Pieter Abbeel: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

2 books · With Pieter Abbeel · Listen · Watch on YouTube

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.

Lex Fridman discussed Reinforcement Learning by Richard S. Sutton and others. Pieter Abbeel discussed The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Reinforcement Learning

   Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto · at 11:25

   Reinforcement Learning by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto is the seminal textbook on machine learning that introduces the foundational algorithms, concepts, and history of computational reinforcement learning.

   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”

   Lex Fridman Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning 2018-12-16 Listen at 11:25

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2. 

   The Better Angels of Our Nature

   Steven Pinker · at 39:42

   The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a sweeping historical and psychological analysis arguing that 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”

   Pieter Abbeel Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning 2018-12-16 Listen at 39:42

   Where to get it

   Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon