Increments
Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani
Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon.
Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Increments podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 6 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Conjectures and refutations
the growth of scientific knowledge
Michelle Irene
Karl Popper
de Launay Marc B.
Melitta Mew
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Brian Boyd
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Enigma of Reason
A New Theory of Human Understanding
Dan Sperber
Hugo Mercier
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Not born yesterday
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging.
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hons and Rebels
Jessica Mitford
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Optionality
How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Richard Meadows
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Science of Can and Can't
A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
Chiara Marletto
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Stalking Nabokov
Brian Boyd
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Perpetual peace
A Philosophical Sketch
Immanuel Kant
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
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Immanuel Kant
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Fabric of Reality
The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
David Deutsch
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Brothers Karamazov
Larissa Volokhonsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rationality
From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Infinite jest
wit and humor in Italian Renaissance art
Paul Barolsky
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Objective Knowledge
An Evolutionary Approach
Karl Popper
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Spell of Plato
Karl Popper
