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“There is this great book, I’ve mentioned it in the past, by Steven Baxter and Arthur Clark called the light of other days and it’s all about how basically all the world’s information becomes available…”
“there's a David Gogggins quote of like every day we have an opportunity to find out who we are as people.”
“If you read uh the Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmol he talks about the same process with all the Pixar movies”
“I I read uh Genius Makers about like the history like like the recent history of deep learning.”
“Excellent book that intelligence is a multidimensional vector, not a scalar.”
“Arowan, do you know that one? No, I don't. I think I've heard of it, but I've not read this. Uh, it's uh by Samuel Butler from the 1800s.”
“I thought one detail that was really kind of interesting was their first interaction, one of the first was about they bonded over a book called deception, which I haven't I haven't read the book. I do…”
“Um the banks books are the Yes. probably the best.”
“Together with Aaron Roth, Michael co-authored the ethical algorithm which explores the design of algorithms that respect privacy and fairness.”
“the dream machine is uh like hands up here who feels like they really have a good understanding um of the history of the internet... the dream machine is the best history of the um of the uh of the in…”
“the one I read uh reasonably recently that I that that kind of blew my mind was um um the demon under the microscope”
“The Mind Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein, um you know, is an amazing novel, uh that sort of sort of asks all these these philosophical questions that are very close to my heart.”
“her husband Steven Pinker who has also written amazing books that I could strongly recommend uh uh you know how the mind works”
“her husband Steven Pinker who has also written amazing books that I could strongly recommend uh uh you know how the mind works uh the blank slate”
“in computational complexity uh the the textbook by Papa Ditrio uh was uh revoly for me”
“there's another one called gems of theoretical computer science that I really love.”
“Leonard Suskin has a really nice book called the theoretical minimum.”
“Sean Carroll has a has a really really nice book called Something Deeply Hidden.”
“And I have a book, Quantum Computing Since Democratus. I almost forgot. A fantastic book. I highly recommend it.”
“In the book I describe the pattern that's happened over and over again. And when you get to this position when there are a bad finances combined with large wealth and values gaps and irreconcilable di…”
“There's a French writer geographer who has I think the best analysis on this um and who's written a great book on it called Twilight of the Elites.”
“There's this new book out called Abundance um from uh from Ezra Klein... I think this book is really good.”
“In fact I'd recommend for everyone there's a book called Generations. Have you read it?”
“his book, Destined for War, remains the definitive framework for understanding the USChina relationship.”
“If your reader or your listeners don't remember Mumby Dick, they should go look at it again.”
“are you familiar with the mind body prescription? No. John Sarno... a lot of back pain is psychosomatic... I read John Sarno and I realized that some of it might be also psychological”
“Mark repertoire he's um he wrote this book called Starting Strength and it became like the the main way most most guys at least my age like getting into uh powerlifting.”
“when Secretary Hicks talks about this kind of thing and what was happening with him when he was in Afghanistan, if you ever read his book in Iraq, he's like the rules of engagement were so punishing”
“Anyone who's read my book, uh, lifespan knows that this book is very important to me.”
“part of my doing the reading and the research phase...was reading his textbook you know twice and going through that”
“The city and the stars is one of my favorite sci-fi stories. It's about like a future... what happens when computers get so advanced and they can like manage every aspect of our lives.”
“It was probably the influence of Asimov, the 'Robot' book series. That's probably at least part of where this came from.”
“There's a great book by Nick Lane, one of the top experts in this area called 'The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.' I think it's fantastic.”
“You mentioned to me the book 'The Maniac' by Benjamin Labatut, a book on...about you...the central figure that is John von Neumann. I would say it's a haunting and beautiful exploration of madness and…”
“We had Jonathan Haidt... He had a very important point which is to try and keep kids off cell phones and social media until they're 16.”
“A while ago, my partner Olesia lent me a book called Feeling Good by author David D. Burns.”
“If you want to be able to follow what's going on, I recommend reading the notebooks side by side with your copy of the book.”
“I've now [music] written an entire book about this practice called Life in Perspective, which comes out later [music] this year.”
“His latest book is called The Viper, and it is in the series of Zig and Nola, where the Action Hero, believe it or not, is a mortician.”
“You know, I love the Escape artist. I love the Fifth of Assassin.”
“You know, I love the Escape artist. I love the Fifth of Assassin.”
“I am Martin Luther King Jr. And on the top 10 list of kids' books banned last year as I am Billie Jean King. \nUm, we have fought back successfully against every time they banned us.”
“It's been 5 years since The Almanac of Naval first came out. And to honor that, Naval and I wanted to do a special edition for you. ...This book has grown as a word-of- mouth phenomenon, being gifted …”
“Pennsylvania banned.\nI am Martin Luther King Jr. And I am Rosa Parks.”
“And on the top 10 list of kids' books banned last year as I am Billie Jean King.”
“You know, the best imagining of this future that I've read is from Iain Banks, the Culture books. So I recommend people read the Culture books.”
“There's the books, The Story of Civilization by Durant, which is a long series of books, very, very deep. Those books take a long time to get through.”
“I've got one of them in front of me here called dying to win. So I mean you know a lot about this subject”
“I have a book coming out in September called Our own Worst Enemies.”
“it basically takes shrunken whites elements of style classic book on writing”
“I did write a blurb for uh for Nate and Eleazar's book and you know I I I I I would like people to to read the book to you know uh uh uh reflect on it uh to to argue about it.”
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“I just bought this book uh called Art Thief. Have you heard about this?”
“Jamie Se, the founder of Ring. Um, yeah. But it's the story. I love seeing perspectives of our friends in a different light and seeing their journey.”
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“Probably the Iain Banks Culture books are the closest thing to what the future will be like in a non-dystopian outcome.”
“The first two-thirds of Stranger in a Strange Land are good, and then it gets very weird in the third portion.”
“And I used to give it to all my product managers at my company. It's like study this to figure out how we charge people for stuff.”
“in preparation I just read your excellent book compendium of screenshot essays over the past few years it's must read”
“I still give the book Understanding Deep Learning by Simon J.D. Prince a good recommendation, but chapter 21: Deep learning and Ethics was sloppy.”
“my Bible when I was uh uh starting graduate studies was um you know the duda and heart um book”
“around that time, I guess the PDP book, the parallel data processing book, which was a compendium of neural network papers that appeared around 1986 if I recall right.”
“Um, Dale Carnegie, how to make friends and influence.”
“A guy Kawasaki wrote a great book on how to write a slide deck for a startup.”
“I'm a greeter. Uh I would start with the technical book one is it it is functional programming in Scola. This is the single best technical book I've ever read.”
“Uh the wandering earth uh wandering earth by uh sishlu. So he's the guy that did uh three body problem. I think a lot of people know him for that. I actually I think your body problem was awesome, but…”
“Agree with Kevin's core point about getting the best and latest guidebooks.”
“Just discovered Ruskin's The Nature of Gothic. Remarkable essay: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30755/30755-h/30755-h.htm#page151”
“Yeah. And I think in Quad one, you talked about Great Gatsby. Yeah. The whole novel in the context, which is pretty amusing.”
“instructor of the other TensorFlow specializations and al also author of the wonderful book AI and ML book for coders.”
“there's a good book that maybe is inspiring called demon you potentially read it in Damon the intelligence um ends up like puppeteering almost a little bit like humanity in a certain sense you know an…”
“More people should read the first part of The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine.”
“there's this wonderful book um Mr China about a private Equity guy who was investing in China in the 90s and sometimes the plot lines are literally the CEO ran off to a different country he took the c…”
“Tyler Cowan in his book stubborn attachments outlines his moral philosophy and I I think he calls it common sense utilitarianism”
“I couldn't resist I posted a link to it another book on this topic with that has a great title called Kill all normies”
“Alex Epstein wrote an excellent book fossil future in which he makes the case for fossil fuels”
“It was um kind of a 101 on you know Grossman's book you know on killing and you know talking about the udaloop and emotional regulation. And so we really got into the science, not just the, you know, …”
“Also, Put Your Legs On by Rob Jones.”
“Need to lead by Dave Burke.”
“I've written a bunch of books about leadership. I've written a bunch of kids books. Check those out.”
“His first book, Quantum Computing Since Democratus, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.”
“Lessons from History is like one of my favorite books ever. Um I would really really really recommend it. It's a short read. Um but I would Lessons from History by Alan Durant is like probably the mos…”
“You know what's great? Area 51, an uncensored history of the top secret military base. Not very ariodite. Great book.”
“the banana king have you heard this one have you seen this one oh my god this is so good what's it called this the fish that ate the whale incredible book”
“You have this first book here called am I overthinking this which a lot of people identify with has sold many copies.”
“for for uh for writing on writing well by William Zinder?”
“The book is called Hidden Multipliers, and you can pre-order it at hidden multipliers.com, or I guess if this is out long enough, I'll order it, I guess, depending on when you're listening to this.”
“And she and her partner do Dr. Katya Walsh just recently published a new book called Winning with AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success. So, I'm super excited to learn about the backstory behind this b…”
“The book trust agents came from a conversation I was at South by Southwest. It was 2008 and I was sitting next to a very wonderful woman, Ellen. And um she asked me, she goes, "Do you read?" I said, "…”
“In defence of the rich — and other new economic books https://www.ft.com/content/a4acff6c-2f3c-4b23-83a0-ac0688112306”
“Rob Henderson's book troubled is a really important one because it talks exactly about why that happens and how that happens how do people acquire luxury beliefs”
“the elegant universe had a big impact on me when it came out when uh all uh and it's an honor to to do this podcast with you”
“Let's see I just I just read chip Wars um I skim through a lot of AI papers I don't understand all of them but I try to understand all of them”