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Lex Fridman · 2019-12-21

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59

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Udacity Self-Driving Car Nanodegree

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

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“wrote a great book called enlightenment now and that's maybe the one book I would recommend”
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Probabilistic Robotics

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The Matrix

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“you mentioned that the matrix may be your favorite movie so let's start with the crazy philosophical question”— Lex Fridman
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TI-57 calculator

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“one of the first programs of the first few programs you've written was a wait for a TI 57 calculator yep maybe that's early eighties”— Lex Fridman
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Cosmos

Carl Sagan (inferred)

“if you just recently thought the Android and who was creator of cosmos show it's interesting to think about how many scientists that show launched”— Lex Fridman
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Her

Spike Jonze (inferred)

“a human being can love and that loves that human back like in the movie her”— Lex Fridman
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The Fifth Element

Luc Besson (inferred)

“if you have ten thousand what's the movie The Fifth Element to get a thief over to happen if it's not autonomous”— guest