Week 2021-W35

Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2021-W35

9 books, grouped by podcast.

Lex Fridman Podcast

Discussed How
“how and why wonder books um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
Discussed Wonder
“how and why wonder books um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
Discussed Robots
“um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots”
Discussed Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
“and so marvin minsky very well known in ai but also a fantastic mathematician uh in his book finite and infinite machines from the mid 60s which is a beautiful beautiful mathematical book”
Discussed Is one million dollars enough?
“in fact i'm halfway through a i think it'll be about a 480 page book um titled the working title is not even wrong”
Discussed Perceptrons
“uh i i should have asked marvin why he he and seymour pappet came down so hard on neural networks in 1968 in their book perceptrons”
Discussed I, Robot
“and now let me leave you with the three laws of robotics from isaac asimov”

SmartLess

Discussed Flim-Flam Man
“Oh, that's great to hear, I, um, yeah, it was a script that came to me many years ago based on Jennifer Vogel's memoir Flim Flam Man.”
Discussed The Defense Never Rests
“I was spending my time in high school reading the books of F. Lee Bailey about his cases and wanting to be a lawyer, a criminal defense attorney.”