#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

#216 – Vincent Racaniello

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #216:

1. The Plague by Albert Camus

#215 – Wojciech Zaremba

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #215:

No books mentioned.

Wojciech Zaremba is a Polish computer scientist, a co-founder of OpenAI, where he leads both the Codex research and language teams. The teams actively work on AI that writes computer code and creating successors to GPT-3 respectively. Wikipedia

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#214 – Jed Buchwald

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #214:

1. The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century by Jed Z. Buchwald
2. Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies by Robert Hooke
3. Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson
4. The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton

#213 – Barry Barish

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #213:

1. The Ratchet of Science: Curiosity Killed the Cat by Roy Calne
2. The Plague by Albert Camus
3. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
5. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
6. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
7. Ulysses by James Joyce
8. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

#212 – Joscha Bach

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #212:

No books mentioned.

Joscha Bach is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. Wikipedia

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Other appearances: #101, #392

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#211 – Brian Muraresku

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #211:

1. The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku
2. Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
3. Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created by Patrick E. McGovern
4. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck
5. De Materia Medica by Pedanius Dioscorides
6. The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides by Dennis R. MacDonald
7. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
8. Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby
9. Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck
10. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (Duplicate) by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck
11. In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley
12. Reality by Peter Kingsley

#210 – Matt Walker

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #210:

1. Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
2. The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory by Aleksandr R. Luria