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  • Naveen Rao has recommended or discussed 2 books on podcasts, as of October 4, 2024.
  • Naveen Rao has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of October 4, 2024.
  • Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of October 4, 2024.
  • The 2 books Naveen Rao has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 4, 2024: Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Great Gatsby.
  • The latest episode with a book mention from Naveen Rao aired on October 4, 2024.

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Guest on This Week in Startups · 2 books · 2 episodes across 1 podcast

Naveen Rao appeared on multiple episodes of This Week in Startups to discuss artificial intelligence, neurobiology, and distributed models. During an episode focusing on data intelligence, Naveen Rao recommended Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow, praising it as a great work and pointing out that its concepts have roots in neurobiology which could inform modern AI design. On another episode of the podcast, Naveen Rao brought up F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby while explaining how his team enabled a very long context window in a language model capable of processing an entire book and generating a made-up epilogue. Through these podcast appearances, Naveen Rao connected foundational psychological and literary works to cutting-edge technical advancements in machine learning, natural language processing, and the practical implementation of artificial intelligence systems.

Books Naveen Rao recommended or discussed

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  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · Recommended · 1 episode

    Thinking, Fast and Slow is a popular psychology and behavioral economics book by Daniel Kahneman that explores cognitive biases, human judgment, and the dual systems that drive how people think.

    Recommended
    “so you may have read uh Daniel Conan's book Thinking Fast and Slow very you you know this is this is a great book if anyone hasn't read it um it actually has roots in neurobiology”
    This Week in Startups Highlighting Data Intelligence with Databricks & Bonbon's Reward Innov… 2024-10-04 Listen at 58:23
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    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  2. The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · Discussed · 1 episode

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic American novel examining the decadence, idealism, and ultimate disillusionment of the Jazz Age through the tragic pursuit of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby.

    Discussed
    “so uh what we enabled was a very long context window that you could actually feed it a whole book we in fact fed it the entire Great Gatsby and we as it to as it to write the U the epilogue madeup epilog”
    This Week in Startups How open-source & distributed models can win AI with MosaicML's Naveen… 2023-06-01 Listen at 13:03
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

Appearances

EpisodePodcastDateBooks
Highlighting Data Intelligence with Databricks & Bonbon's Reward Innovation | E2020This Week in Startups2024-10-041
How open-source & distributed models can win AI with MosaicML's Naveen Rao | E1754This Week in Startups2023-06-011