#491 - Peter Steinberger

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #491:

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#490 - Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #490:

  1. Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka
  2. Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka
  3. The RLHF Book: Reinforcement learning from human feedback, alignment, and post-training LLMs by Nathan Lambert
  4. Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee
  5. Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation by Byrne Hobart, Tobias Huber
  6. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot
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#489 – Paul Rosolie

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #489:

  1. Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World by Paul Rosolie
  2. Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon by Paul Rosolie
  3. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
  4. The Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. Books by Jane Goodall
  6. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  7. Echoes from Eden: A Daring Voyage to Protect Earth’s Last Wild Places by Dax Dasilva, Eric Hendrikx
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#488 - Joel David Hamkins

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #488:

  1. Proof and the Art of Mathematics by Joel David Hamkins
  2. Proof and the Art of Mathematics: Examples and Extensions by Joel David Hamkins
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#487 - Irving Finkel

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #487:

  1. The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; with a Memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in General, and on that of Behistun in Particular by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
  2. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs by Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner
  3. The Epic of Gilgamesh
  4. Book of Genesis
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#486 - Michael Levin

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#485 - David Kirtley

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#484 Dan Houser

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #484:

  1. A BETTER PARADISE: Volume One (An Aftermath) by Dan Houser
  2. American Caper by Dan Houser
  3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
  4. Thin Red Line by James Jones
  5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  6. Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
  7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  8. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  11. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  12. 1984 by George Orwell
  13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  15. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
  16. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
  17. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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#483 Julia Shaw

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #483:

  1. Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side by Julia Shaw
  2. The Memory Illusion: Why You Might Not Be Who You Think You Are by Julia Shaw
  3. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw
  4. Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them by Julia Shaw
  5. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin
  6. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
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#482 - Pavel Durov

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #482:

  1. The Illusion of Paradise: Drugs, Psychedelics, Poisons, Allergens by Aleksandr Shpakov
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