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Luís and João Batalha: Fermat's Library and the Art of Studying Papers | Lex Fridman Podcast #209

Luís and João Batalha: Fermat's Library and the Art of Studying Papers | Lex Fridman Podcast #209

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Machine Learning Street Talk

Machine Learning Street Talk (inferred)

“that i recommend highly”
“machine learning street talk i think that's the name of the show the that i recommend highly that's the right thing but uh they they do exactly that”— Lex Fridman

The guest's own work

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Fermat's Library

Luís and João Batalha

“co-founders of fermat's library which is an incredible platform for annotating papers”— Lex Fridman
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Fermat's Library Twitter account

Luís and João Batalha

“for mars library is also a really good twitter account to follow i highly recommend it they post little visual factoids”— Lex Fridman
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Librarian (browser extension)

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“librarian is a browser extension that we developed that is sort of an overlay on top of archive”— guest
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Margins

Fermat's Library

“margins is kind of the same software that we use to to run the journal club and to host the annotations but we've made that available for free”— guest

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Birth of a Theorem

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“i also read a book by cedric villani uh these cedric velani is this mathematician the fields medalist and in his book he tries to explain how he got from like a phd student to the fields metal”— guest
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Microsoft Word

Microsoft

“they don't know what so i'm using uh microsoft word and uh mendeley and like all of those kinds of things”— Lex Fridman
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Mendeley

Elsevier (inferred)

“they don't know what so i'm using uh microsoft word and uh mendeley and like all of those kinds of things”— Lex Fridman
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Gaming the Metrics

Mario Biagioli

“there's a a really interesting book on this topic called gaming the metrics it's a book by a researcher called mario biagioli”— guest
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Spotify

Spotify

“you open spotify and you might not even pay for it you might be on the free version and you can listen to any song that has ever made”— guest
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Game of Thrones

HBO (inferred)

“you wrote a paper on a on game of thrones battle of winterfell just as a side little”— Lex Fridman
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Ex Machina

Alex Garland

“i now know um alex garland the director of ex machina and i love it”— Lex Fridman
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Arrival

Denis Villeneuve (inferred)

“stephen wolfram and his son were were collaborating with the movie arrival in designing the alien language”— Lex Fridman
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The Martian

Andy Weir (inferred)

“the martian was also big on that like the book in the movie was all about like can we actually is this plausible”— guest
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Artemis

Andy Weir (inferred)

“there's a book about a colony on the colony on the moon and he goes about like all the details that would you know be required about setting up a colony in the moon”— guest
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Interstellar

Christopher Nolan (inferred)

“i think interstellar was one where they also consulted heavily with with the number of yeah i think even resulted in a couple of papers”— Lex Fridman
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Moneyball

Bennett Miller (inferred)

“have you ever watched moneyball like yeah so they're trying to do something similar to taking that in this case basketball taking a statistical approach”— guest