#228 – RZA

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #228:

1. The Qur’an

#227 – Sean Kelly

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #227:

1. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
2. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
3. All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus
4. Parallel Models of Associative Memory: Updated Edition by Geoffrey E. Hinton, James A. Anderson
5. Moby-Dick: The Whale by Herman Melville
6. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

#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

• https://www.instagram.com/judosilencer/
• https://www.facebook.com/travisstevensjudo/

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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

• https://x.com/cycorpai

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#220 – Niels Jorgensen

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #220:

No books mentioned.

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