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The Second World War
Winston Churchill ISBN 0140086161
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Winston Churchill ISBN 0140086161
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This book by Winston Churchill 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: Vladimir Vapnik. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It is no wonder that when it was announced that he would write the history of the Second World War, there arose throughout the world an interest and excitement caused by no other publication of this century. The six volumes of The Second World War fulfilled the highest expectations with which they were awaited. But the great length of the work and its necessary cost has prevented many thousands from reading and owning this great history.
“One of the greatest books is Churchill's book about the history of the Second World War. He starts in his book describing that in the old times when a war is over”— Vladimir Vapnik
The guest here is Vladimir Vapnik: Co-inventor of support vector machines and VC (Vapnik-Chervonenkis) theory, foundational figure in statistical learning theory; worked at AT&T, NEC Labs, Facebook Research, and professor at Columbia University. Statistical learning pioneer Vladimir Vapnik argues true learning needs invariants and predicates, not deep learning's brute-force reliance on massive data.
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