Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2018-W48

“very fortunately we've managed to find a slot in Bill's book to which he's currently undergoing in America and I managed to sit down with him to go through his new book the social leap the new evolutionary science of who we are where we come from and what makes us happy”

“so Richard Wrangham talks about that is wonderful book Catching Fire how basically in order to develop the big brain that we have that's supported by such a small gut you need to be eating a lot of me”

“and this is really beginning with wonderful research by Steve Simpson who's a biologist spent much of his career at Oxford and is now at Sydney University and since schon he's got a wonderful book the nature of nutrition he's shown very clearly that if you vary the protein levels in food animals will weigh over eat carbohydrates in order”

“and then if you read super intelligence with a fantastic book on on AI by Professor Nick Bostrom from the future humanities Institute of Oxford you know if there's so many different ways that we can [ __ ] this up like many from ways and it's nearly infinite”

“so uh he wrote the forward in in my book permanently suspended”

“It's from a book by Steve McConnell code complete which is where my favorite programming but still probably my number one programming book for anyone to read”

“but one of the things john carmack one of the best points he makes in the book masters of doom which is a fantastic book”