Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-09-23
Lex Fridman & Travis Oliphant: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #224
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
Travis Oliphant is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda.
Travis Oliphant discussed The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig Von Mises.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Wealth of Nations
Discussed“and i encountered a basically what i encountered a set of writings from people that said they were the inheritors adam smith but adam smith for the first time right which is the wealth of nations and kind of this notion of emergent emergent societies”
Where to get it
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Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
Discussed“I found a lot of writings i really loved I found some things that i really loved and i learned from that it was writings from people like von mises he wrote a pre-order paper in 1920 that still should be read more than it is It's got I mean it was the economic calculation problem of the socialist commonwealth”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Guide to NumPy
“so i wrote a book and i said i'm going to write a book and i'm going to charge for it It was called guide to numpy and so ultimately numpy became documentation driven development because i basically wrote the book and made sure the stuff worked to the book would work”
Plugged Guide to NumPy
“it was called guide to numpy and so ultimately numpy became documentation driven development because i basically wrote the book and made sure the stuff worked to the book would work”