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The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
“one of the reasons i like david deutsch in particular his book the beginning of infinity”
“one of the reasons i like david deutsch in particular his book the beginning of infinity um is that he talks about the power of explanations”— guest
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The Road to Reality
Roger Penrose
“which is just incredibly deep ... it's an amazing amazing book”
“another one is the road to reality by roger penrose which is just incredibly deep it starts with like two plus two equals four”— guest
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Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Robert Heinlein
“i was always a big fan of has have space suit will travel ... it's just a fun good read”
“i was always a big fan of has have space suit will travel which is a heinlein young adult book it's just a fun good read”— guest
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville (inferred)
“i circle back to moby dick a lot”
“i circle back to moby dick a lot um because we read it in a really great english class i had in high school”— guest
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The Expanse
James S.A. Corey (inferred)
“one of the things i like about the expanse”
“one of the things i like about the expanse is the fact that the people who are trying to build the starship to go to the other solar system are doing it for religious reasons”— guest
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Dr. Grordbort's Invaders
Weta Workshop (inferred)
“realized the the potential of ar gaming in a way that i don't think anything else has before or since”
“there was a great team in wellington new zealand that that made a game called dr groybrot's invaders that realized the potential of ar gaming”— guest
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Fusion 360
Autodesk (inferred)
“i use one called fusion 360 ... i can spend hours in that trying to create imagine and create the things i want to create”
“i've had to learn how to get good at using a cad program there's many to choose from i use one called fusion 360”— guest
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Mathematica
Wolfram Research (inferred)
“another app i spend a lot of time in is mathematica”
“another app i spend a lot of time in is mathematica okay and when i do a mathematica notebook if i'm trying to figure something out”— guest
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Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
“you write both historical fiction like world war ii in kryptonomicon and science fiction looking both into the past and the future”— Lex Fridman
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
“from his early book snow crash to his new one called termination shock he doesn't just write novels”— Lex Fridman
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Termination Shock
Neal Stephenson
“from his early book snow crash to his new one called termination shock he doesn't just write novels”— Lex Fridman
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The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
“this is the theme of a book i wrote called the diamond age which you know talks about a book that essentially does that”— guest
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Anathem
Neal Stephenson
“i did some some reading of husserole when i was writing anathem um and he's a you know 20th century phenomenologist”— guest
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Reamde
Neal Stephenson
“if you like sort of techno thrillers that are set in a modern day setting but aren't science fictiony per se then reem d is one of those”— guest
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
“maybe seven eaves because it's got big themes um it's you know it's about heavy heavy things happening to the human race”— guest
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The Baroque Cycle
Neal Stephenson
“you've been handwriting your work for the past 20 years since writing the baroque cycle what are the pros and cons”— guest
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“i read a good chunk of the gulag archipelago when i was a teenager um because my my grandfather had it in his house”— guest
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl (inferred)
“you have like a man search for meaning which is the stories of the story of a man in a concentration camp basically finding beauty in life”— guest
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Gravitation
Misner, Thorne and Wheeler
“you could just spend your whole life with a single textbook there's enough in that textbook measner thorne and wheeler gravitation you know is one of those”— guest
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)
“if we do include it then it's easily the the lord of the rings”— guest
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas (inferred)
“it was like they would do the count of money christo you know moby dick you know robert louis stevenson robinson crusoe”— guest
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe (inferred)
“it was like they would do the count of money christo you know moby dick you know robert louis stevenson robinson crusoe”— guest
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The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle (inferred)
“so i read a lot of that stuff uh for sure the annotated sherlock holmes”— guest
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Star Trek
Gene Roddenberry (inferred)
“when in star trek in classic star trek you had to to really suspend your disbelief to to think that spock was half vulcan and half human”— guest
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Ex Machina
Alex Garland (inferred)
“alex garland director who did who wrote directed ex machina i think about ai movies and the more care you take in making it accurate the more compelling”— guest
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BattleBots
BattleBots (inferred)
“i'm associated with a combat robotics team and i've been to a few battlebots competitions”— guest
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Doom
id Software (inferred)
“people put up with kind of low frame rate and what we would now call crappy graphics because they were having so much fun playing doom or whatever”— guest
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Tetris
Alexey Pajitnov (inferred)
“having so much fun playing doom or whatever even tetris yeah yeah”— Lex Fridman
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Classics Illustrated comics
Classics Illustrated (inferred)
“i used to read a lot of classics comics when i was i don't know if you've seen these it's a whole series of comic books”— guest
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Magic Leap (AR headset)
Magic Leap
“there's still a belief that the magic leap never shipped anything but they've been since 2019 you can go to their website and buy one”— guest
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