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Total: 454

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning
2020/8/20
17 chapters

Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, c

#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
2020/8/16
18 chapters

Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets. Suppo

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
2020/8/14
17 chapters

Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-fo

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
2020/8/9
19 chapters

Russ Tedrake is a roboticist and professor at MIT and vice president of robotics research at TRI. He

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
2020/7/31
19 chapters

Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interest

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
2020/7/29
18 chapters

Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity
2020/7/26
22 chapters

Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theo

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision
2020/7/21
18 chapters

Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vi

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
2020/7/18
19 chapters

Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Pro

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
2020/7/14
16 chapters

Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcemen

#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
2020/7/8
12 chapters

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberatio

#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
2020/7/3
13 chapters

Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-discipl

#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine
2020/6/30
14 chapters

Robert Langer is a professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history, specializing i

#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
2020/6/27
19 chapters

David Patterson is a Turing award winner and professor of computer science at Berkeley. He is known

#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
2020/6/22
21 chapters

Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is th

#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
2020/6/20
14 chapters

Steven Pressfield is a historian and author of War of Art, a book that had a big impact on my life a

#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
2020/6/13
24 chapters

Joscha Bach is the VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously doing research at MIT and Harvard

#99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
2020/5/28
9 chapters

Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history, cited over 245,000 times, known for

#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
2020/5/20

Sertac Karaman is a professor at MIT, co-founder of the autonomous vehicle company Optimus Ride, and

#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
2020/5/15
11 chapters

Stephen Schwarzman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world's leading investme