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Monday Starts on Saturday
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ISBN 9780954336820
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ISBN 9780954336820
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This book by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Dmitri Dolgov. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
A. and B. Strugatsky are by far the most famous Russian writers of science fiction. Their work influenced several generations of young Russians, opening up new horizons of intellectual freedom, combined with endless fun. "Monday Starts on Saturday", the Russian equivalent of "Harry Potter", was written 40 years earlier, and the whole business of dealing with magic happens in a scientific research facility rather than in the school. The main characters are young adults rather than school kids, but that doesn't make it any less funny!
“monday starts on saturday like it's it's not just science fiction it's also like has very interesting interpersonal and societal questions”— Dmitri Dolgov
The guest here is Dmitri Dolgov: CTO of Waymo, the autonomous driving company that began as Google's self-driving car project in 2009. He has worked on the project since the DARPA Urban Challenge era and helped lead it to the first at-scale public driverless ride-hailing deployment. Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on building a truly driverless car, scaling beyond Phoenix, and why aggression isn't the same as good driving.
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