#116 – Sara Seager

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #116:

  1. The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager
  2. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  3. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  4. Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man’s Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North by Prentice G. Downes
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#115 – Dileep George

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #115:

  1. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
  2. The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver
  3. Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference by Judea Pearl
  4. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference by Judea Pearl
  5. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl
  6. The Mind’s I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett
  7. The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom D. Crouch
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#114 – Russ Tedrake

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #114:

  1. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  2. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  3. Barefoot Running Step by Step: Barefoot Ken Bob, the Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique for Running with More Speed, Less Impact, Fewer Injuries and More Fun by Roy M. Wallack, Barefoot Ken Bob Saxton
  4. Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney Brooks
  5. Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
  6. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  7. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
  8. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
  9. I, Asimov: A Memoir by Isaac Asimov
  10. Animal Farm by George Orwell
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#113 – Manolis Kelliss

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #113:

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#112 – Ian Hutchinson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #112:

  1. Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science by Ian Hutchinson
  2. Monopolizing Knowledge by Ian Hutchinson
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#111 – Richard Karp

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #111:

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#110 – Jitendra Malik

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #110:

  1. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl
  2. The Art of the Soluble by Peter Medawar
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#109 – Brian Kernighan

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #109:

  1. The Unix Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan
  2. The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan
  3. The Go Programming Language by Brian Kernighan
  4. UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
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#108 – Sergey Levine

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #108:

  1. Books by Isaac Asimov
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#107 – Peter Singer

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #107:

  1. The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
  2. Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter by Peter Singer
  3. Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals by Peter Singer
  4. The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle
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