Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-09-23
Books mentioned on #224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
Travis Oliphant is a data scientist, entrepreneur, and creator of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Novo: https://banknovo.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a foundational 1776 text in classical economics by the Scottish thinker widely seen as the father of modern economics, exploring the mechanics of free markets, national productivity, and division of labor.
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”
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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”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book 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”
Own book 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”