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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2019
August 2019 podcast episodes featured conversations centered around historical precedents in artificial intelligence, culinary traditions, and scientific literature. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Yann LeCun discussed the historical impact of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's book 'Perceptrons', noting how it affected the early waves of artificial intelligence research, while another episode referenced writings by Geoff Goodfellow. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan talked about Stephen King's book that inspired cinematic storytelling. Steven Rinella appeared on the podcast to discuss culinary traditions, mentioning an old game cookbook by Angus Cameron titled 'The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook', his own organizational approach in 'The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game', and Vic Dunaway's fisheries guidebooks. Furthermore, Joe Rogan touched upon sleep research and health impacts during a discussion referencing sleep expert Dr. Matthew Walker's publications. These discussions collectively bridged technical histories, practical field guides, and health sciences, illustrating a broad curiosity among podcast hosts and guests regarding how foundational texts shape modern practices in technology, cooking, and personal wellness.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Perceptrons, Reissue of the 1988 Expanded Edition with a new foreword by Léon Bottou
Discussed“you know he's the guy who co-authored the book perceptron with Marvin Minsky that kind of killed the first wave”
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Geoff Goodfellow's Top 40
Discussed“because generally there's a lot of other things you do like they're generally they'll be entering cowgirl competitions they you might be reading in Goodfellows books they might you know they'll be doing a bunch of stuff”
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Machines Who Think
Discussed“her books include machines who think in 1979 the fifth generation in 1983 with Edie foggy and mom who's considered to be the father of expert systems the edge of chaos the features of women and many more books”
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The Edge of Chaos
Discussed“her books include machines who think in 1979 the fifth generation in 1983 with Edie foggy and mom who's considered to be the father of expert systems the edge of chaos the features of women and many more books”
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Computers and Thought
Discussed“and before that I had worked on a book by edited by Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman called a computers and thought it was the first textbook of readings of AI”
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The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
Discussed“and herb had read Proust in the original French twice all the way through”
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Discussed“there was a novelist in town a man named Mark Harris he had just just arrived and his wife Josephine mark was most famous then for a novel called bang the drum solo slowly which was about baseball and Joe and me so eight people and we met monthly”
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Securitising Identity
Discussed“I read several books on Lockheed Martin recently my favorite in particulars by Ben rich called skunkworks personal memoir”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Stephen King Goes to the Movies
Discussed“but the idea was based on a Stephen King book and the Stephen King book where there was a guy who was sort of slow and they did something to him and all of a sudden he became some super genius almost godlike character”
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The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook
Discussed“you know i found out about eating it because my brother found out about eating it because he has this old cookbook called the ll bean it's like the yellow bean wild game cookbook um by a guy named angus first name of angus if i remember right and he's got a shank like he's got a shank recipe in”
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The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game
Discussed“so obviously like when we did our cookbook i tried really hard to steer away from things that would be elk recipes deer recipes and just take it from a cut basis cookbook is excellent”
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Why We Do What We Do
Discussed“anyways i had a podcast with a guy named dr matthew walker who's a sleep expert written books on sleeping and he talks about the vast amount of americans that are under arrested and and what an impact it has on your hormonal production on your body's ability to recover on your happiness your your body's ability to produce endorphins”
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Decode Your Dreams
Discussed“anyways i had a podcast with a guy named dr matthew walker who's a sleep expert written books on sleeping and he talks about the vast amount of americans that are under arrested and and what an impact it has on your hormonal production on your body's ability to recover on your happiness your your body's ability to produce endorphins”
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Sport Fish of the Gulf of Mexico
Discussed“you know what's funny about great whites is there's a guy there's a writer i love and he does all these fisheries guidebooks named vic dunaway i don't know if he's dead or alive but i got all of his books He's got like gulf coast pacific ocean atlantic coast um he does these books like it's like all the”
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War in the Woods
Discussed“and getting to meet certain guys from the sheriff's department in my first book goes into this whole learning experience of you know ad hoc jumping in with other agencies and doing it was this the hidden war this was the first book war in the woods”
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Hidden War
Discussed“So you wrote war in the woods and then hidden war is the new one yeah hidden wars the brand new one that just came out and they're basically ten years apart”
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The Relationship Between Student Motivation to Learn and Cooperative Learning Methods
Discussed“yo i read a book um rebel without a crew i think it's um i think rich rodriguez i think is think is his name and he was a filmmaker and he made the i can't remember the name of the movie but it was the prequel to what became desperado oh robert rodriguez yes”
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Safety Off
Discussed“I'm writing a whole book on this actually I'm glad uh and uh it's about outrage culture It's about becoming too soft and but I but I try to make it a you know a uh productive conversation each chapter will be lessons you know derived from my own experiences and and derived from psychology uh derived from of ancient”
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Cum for Bigfoot
Discussed“Do you know these people really into Bigfoot sexually there's like all these novels written about big things is good data tall Armenian no no that's that hard They ever go to Glendale everywhere go to the Galleria there's this Bigfoot this is a very localized reference there's Bigfoot you get it a Bigfoot or ID you get it Bigfoot”
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The Journey Back to Me
Discussed“Virginia Wade big favor by Lolita young wait a minute narrated I mean this is an audio book”
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Girls' Trip
Discussed“get it all the way under the shaft Look at this absolutely buffing Bigfoot What is happening”
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Bigfoot
Discussed“Come for Bigfoot Come for Bigfoot number 13 Just make [ __ ] up”
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Siren Island
Discussed“Wow taken by pirates oh she rat sheep ranch doff an utter genres it's all just getting [ __ ] taken by pirates seduced by the Dark Lord”
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Discussed“genres it's all just getting [ __ ] taken by pirates seduced by the Dark Lord it's like getting [ __ ] by demons and pirates”
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Dead Doctors Don't Lie
Discussed“my doctor died that was so it was sad when he died it was like I trusted you well there's a great book called dead doctors don't lie but this guy Joel Wallach”
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The Culture Of Fear
Discussed“no i'm part of this new podcast it's called fear not uh a guy named barry glasner and barry glasner wrote this book called the culture of fear and it was all about how fear is used as business right they keep you scared so that they could sell you things”
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Merchants of Doubt
Discussed“and um i'm sure some of it has to do with lobbyists and some of it has to do with merchants of doubt that go out there and seed the world with disinformation to try to increase their profits and continue the practices that they're currently enjoying”
