Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2021-W38

“Now he primarily works on um quantum gravity loop quantum gravity other approaches to um unifying quantum mechanics with general relativity as you can read about in his most recent book I believe and he's been on your show as well so but I I want to introduce this idea of cosmological natural selection because I think that is one”

“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”

“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”

“the following is a conversation with jay mcclelland a cognitive scientist at stanford and one of the seminal figures in the history of artificial intelligence and specifically neural networks having written the parallel distributed processing book with david rommelhart who co-authored the backpropagation paper with jeff hinton in their collaborations they've paved the way for many of the ideas at”

“cognitive psychology had just become a field there was a book published in 67 called cognitive psychology um and the author said that you know the study of the nervous system was only of peripheral interest it wasn't going to tell us anything about the mind”

“but euclid's elements were the the kind of the touch point of a of a coherent document that sort of laid out this idea of an actual formal system within which these objects were characterized and the um the system of uh inference that um allowed new truths to be derived from others was sort of like established as a”

“Oh, they'll write their life story in their 30s? I have an autobiography coming out—you’re 36!”

“I have to admit the team, my oldest daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon, and I, we made 'The Central Park Five' and 'Jackie Robinson'.”

“I got nominated twice for Brooklyn Bridge, which was one hour and for Statue of Liberty, which was one hour, and we didn't win, which was fine.”

“Listen, the war is really good, uh, um, Vietnam is really, really good too, um, and I do want to watch jazz and country music too, they're all really great.”