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The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson (inferred)
“i recommend ascent of money as a great book”
“i recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on ledgers started around 30 000 years ago”— Lex Fridman
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3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson
“he's incredible beautiful videos”
“i just talked to grant sanderson i don't know if you know who he is it's a three blue one brown it's a youtube channel he does he's incredible beautiful videos”— Lex Fridman
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
“i would actually recommend invisible cities i just i loved that book”
“italo calvina i would actually recommend invisible cities i just i loved that book by italo calvino”— guest
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
“that's a absolutely gorgeous book”
“anthony door wrote a book called all the light we cannot see which actually uh was inspired by incognito”— guest
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway
“short stories that i love”
“snows of kilimanjaro uh oh wow short stories that i love”— guest
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Cosmos
Carl Sagan
“that influenced me a huge amount in terms of what i do”
“i grew up uh with cosmos both watching the pbs series and then reading the book and that influenced me a huge amount”— guest
The guest's own work
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Livewired
David Eagleman
“you have a new book coming out on the changing brain can you give a high level overview of the book it's called live wired”— guest
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Incognito
David Eagleman
“i gave this the end of my book incognito so the whole book of incognito is about you know all the what's happening in the brain”— guest
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Neosensory wristband (Buzz)
Neosensory
“i run a company called neosensory and what we build is this little um wristband we've built this in many different oh wow that's it”— guest
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Eagleman
“let me leave you with some words from david eagleman in his book some for details from the afterlife imagine for a moment”— Lex Fridman
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Amazon Alexa
Amazon
“i just sent my mother and alexa and she you know figured out how to go on the settings and do the thing”— guest
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The Martian
Ridley Scott (inferred)
“that movie the martian with matt damon the um it was written in a book of course but the the movie poster shows matt damon all alone”— guest
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Google Home
“as soon as they're curious about something they ask alex or they ask google home they get the answer right there in the context of the curiosity”— guest
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GPT-3
OpenAI
“so the gpt3 is this language model this neural network that's able to it has 175 billion parameters so it's very large”— Lex Fridman
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
“a philosopher named ernest becker he wrote a book called denial of death and there's a few psychologists sheldon solomon”— Lex Fridman
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