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 7 episodes
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
#2 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Conjectures and refutations
the growth of scientific knowledge
Michelle Irene
Karl Popper
de Launay Marc B.
Melitta Mew
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Objective Knowledge
An Evolutionary Approach
Karl Popper
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Brian Boyd
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Enigma of Reason
A New Theory of Human Understanding
Dan Sperber
Hugo Mercier
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Not born yesterday
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging.
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Unended Quest
Karl Popper
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Human Problem Solving
Herbert Simon
Allen Newell
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hons and Rebels
Jessica Mitford
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Optionality
How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Richard Meadows
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Science of Can and Can't
A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
Chiara Marletto
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Stalking Nabokov
Brian Boyd
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Perpetual peace
A Philosophical Sketch
Immanuel Kant
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Fabric of Reality
The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
David Deutsch
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction
A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence
Paul Meehl
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
In search of a better world
A Human Rights Odyssey
J. M. Kaul
