Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-09-23
Lex Fridman & Regina Barzilay: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast
Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Regina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology, or the use of deep learning for early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer.
Regina Barzilay discussed The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal, and Flowers for Algernon by David Rogers and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Emperor of All Maladies
Discussed“I've maybe a year ago read a book called the emperor of all maladies it's a book about it's kind of a history of science book on how the treatments and drugs for cancer were developed”
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Americanah
Discussed“let me give you an example of a book which is not kind of which is a fiction book is a book called Americana and this is a book about a young female student who comes from Africa to study in the United States”
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An American Sickness
Discussed“there is a book that I am reading it's called American sickness by Elizabeth was in town and I got this book from my clinical collaborator dr. Connie Limon and I said I know everything that I need to know about American health system but you know every page doesn't fail to surprise me”
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Flowers for Algernon
Discussed“coming back to another book that I love flowers for algernon have you read this book”
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