#226 – Jo Boaler

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #226:

1. Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers by Jo Boaler
2. Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain’s Ability to Embrace Change
3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

#225 – Jeffrey Shainline

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #225:

1. Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin

#224 – Travis Oliphant

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #224:

1. Guide to NumPy by Travis E. Oliphant

#223 – Travis Stevens

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #223:

No books mentioned.

Travis Stevens is an American judoka and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner who competed in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics. He competes in the men’s half-middleweight division. On August 9, 2016, Stevens became the third American male judoka to win a silver medal in the Olympics. Wikipedia

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#222 – Jay McClelland

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #222:

1. Parallel Distributed Processing by David E. Rumelhart, James L. Mcclelland
2. Explorations in Cognition by Donald A. Norman, David E. Rumelhart
3. Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser

#221 – Douglas Lenat

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #221:

No books mentioned.

Douglas Bruce Lenat is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence; he was awarded the biannual IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1976 for creating the machine-learning program AM. Wikipedia

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#220 – Niels Jorgensen

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #220:

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Niels Jorgensen is a former New York firefighter for over 21 years, who was there at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001.

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#219 – Donald Knuth

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #219:

1. Computability and Unsolvability by Martin Davis
2. Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, Greg Humphreys
3. The Funny Men by Steve Allen
4. Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind by Sir Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Ellen Langer, Rhawn Gabriel Joseph, Chris J. S. Clarke, L. Dossey, Ernest Lawrence Rossi, GianCarlo Ghirardi, Peter Sturrock, Edgarl D. Mitchel
5. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
6. Surreal Numbers by Donald Knuth
7. On Beyond Zebra! by Dr. Seuss
8. The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett

#218 – Jaron Lanier

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #218:

1. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
2. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
3. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
4. Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

#217 – Rodney Brooks

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #217:

1. The How and Why Wonder Book of Electricity by Jerome J Notkin
2. The How and Why Wonder Book of Robots and Electronic Brains by Robert Scharff, Denny McMains
3. Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit
4. Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines by Marvin Lee Minsky
5. The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms by Alfred Aho
6. Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry by Marvin Minsky, Seymour A. Papert