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Marginalia

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Marginalia brings books and research into conversations about how we think, speak, remember, and live together. Explore philosophy, artificial intelligence, linguistics, psychology, history, art, and science through the ideas and questions in the source texts. Listen to learn, question what you hear, and take the debate further. Browse seven subject collections, including separate AI Books and AI Papers series. AI Papers connects recent research with historically significant work. Philosophy & Critical Theory: Ricoeur, Adorno, truth, interpretation, and ethics.AI & Computer Science: Learning, world models, and the ideas behind intelligent machines.Language & Linguistics: How language works, develops, and evolves.Mind & Psychology: Consciousness, cognition, development, and human behavior.History & Judaism: Jewish history, memory, and how we understand the past.Art & Music: Aesthetics, creativity, and ways of listening.Mathematics & Science: Mathematical ideas, scientific reasoning, and how we establish knowledge.Human-curated, with conversations produced using NotebookLM. Explore the episodes and their source references at the podcast library. felipecasadei.ai

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Conceptual Form (Sandeep Prasada): The Hidden Structure of Commonsense Concepts

49 min

Sandeep Prasada argues that commonsense concepts have a formal structure that guides how we think, speak and reason. Conceptual Form distinguishes what we know about a category from the perspectives through which we understand its members. The book develops an instance-of-kind perspective and examines how people reason about kinds, individuals and their properties. It applies this account to generic statements, systematic polysemy and metaphor, connecting conceptual structure with language. The later chapters consider how these perspectives are acquired and what they imply for theories of conceptual knowledge. Author: Sandeep Prasada Source: Conceptual Form: The Hidden Structure of Commonsense Concepts · Sandeep Prasada Series: Mind & Psychology · Book deep dive Explore: Mind & Psychology Related episodes: How Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Paul Bloom) · Thought and Language (Lev Vygotsky) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Unsupervised Learning for Physical Interaction through Video Prediction (Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow & Sergey Levine)

34 min

Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow and Sergey Levine investigate how robots can learn the effects of physical interactions from unlabeled video. Their action-conditioned models predict how pixels move between frames, reusing visual appearance rather than reconstructing every future image from scratch. The paper introduces a dataset of 59,000 robot-pushing interactions and tests predictions on previously unseen objects. Its experiments compare alternative motion-prediction architectures and examine their ability to produce plausible futures conditioned on a robot's actions. This 2016 work provides an early foundation for robotic world models and connects visual prediction with the longer-term goal of planning through learned models. Author: Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow and Sergey Levine Source: Unsupervised Learning for Physical Interaction through Video Prediction · Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow and Sergey Levine Series: Weekly AI Papers · Historical classic Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Backpropagation: Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors (Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams) · Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 3 of 5: Robot Manipulators Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

La-JEPA: Compact Robot Policies with Latent World Modeling (Mateo Clémente et al.)

24 min

Mateo Clémente and colleagues introduce La-JEPA, a compact robot policy trained in the feature space of a pretrained V-JEPA 2.1 video encoder. The model learns to predict future visual features alongside actions during training, then generates actions alone when controlling the robot. The authors evaluate it on LIBERO-Plus, RoboTwin 2.0 and four real-robot tasks, reporting strong results with smaller policies than several generation-based alternatives. Their design study compares JEPA features with video-VAE latents and examines which forms of predictive supervision improve control. The paper also identifies corrupted instructions in the released LIBERO-Plus evaluator and re-evaluates baselines under a corrected protocol. Author: Mateo Clémente, George Z. Xue, Amin Abyaneh, Liheng Ma, Rui Heng Yang, Tongtong Cao, Zhanguang Zhang and Yingxue Zhang Source: La-JEPA: Compact Robot Policies with Latent World Modeling · Mateo Clémente, George Z. Xue, Amin Abyaneh, Liheng Ma, Rui Heng Yang, Tongtong Cao, Zhanguang Zhang and Yingxue Zhang Series: Weekly AI Papers · Recent research Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Yann LeCun & Randall Balestriero: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs · Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 5 of 5: Vision-Based Control Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

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Conceptual Form (Sandeep Prasada): The Hidden Structure of Commonsense Concepts

49 min

Sandeep Prasada argues that commonsense concepts have a formal structure that guides how we think, speak and reason. Conceptual Form distinguishes what we know about a category from the perspectives through which we understand its members. The book develops an instance-of-kind perspective and examines how people reason about kinds, individuals and their properties. It applies this account to generic statements, systematic polysemy and metaphor, connecting conceptual structure with language. The later chapters consider how these perspectives are acquired and what they imply for theories of conceptual knowledge. Author: Sandeep Prasada Source: Conceptual Form: The Hidden Structure of Commonsense Concepts · Sandeep Prasada Series: Mind & Psychology · Book deep dive Explore: Mind & Psychology Related episodes: How Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Paul Bloom) · Thought and Language (Lev Vygotsky) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Unsupervised Learning for Physical Interaction through Video Prediction (Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow & Sergey Levine)

34 min

Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow and Sergey Levine investigate how robots can learn the effects of physical interactions from unlabeled video. Their action-conditioned models predict how pixels move between frames, reusing visual appearance rather than reconstructing every future image from scratch. The paper introduces a dataset of 59,000 robot-pushing interactions and tests predictions on previously unseen objects. Its experiments compare alternative motion-prediction architectures and examine their ability to produce plausible futures conditioned on a robot's actions. This 2016 work provides an early foundation for robotic world models and connects visual prediction with the longer-term goal of planning through learned models. Author: Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow and Sergey Levine Source: Unsupervised Learning for Physical Interaction through Video Prediction · Chelsea Finn, Ian Goodfellow and Sergey Levine Series: Weekly AI Papers · Historical classic Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Backpropagation: Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors (Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams) · Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 3 of 5: Robot Manipulators Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

La-JEPA: Compact Robot Policies with Latent World Modeling (Mateo Clémente et al.)

24 min

Mateo Clémente and colleagues introduce La-JEPA, a compact robot policy trained in the feature space of a pretrained V-JEPA 2.1 video encoder. The model learns to predict future visual features alongside actions during training, then generates actions alone when controlling the robot. The authors evaluate it on LIBERO-Plus, RoboTwin 2.0 and four real-robot tasks, reporting strong results with smaller policies than several generation-based alternatives. Their design study compares JEPA features with video-VAE latents and examines which forms of predictive supervision improve control. The paper also identifies corrupted instructions in the released LIBERO-Plus evaluator and re-evaluates baselines under a corrected protocol. Author: Mateo Clémente, George Z. Xue, Amin Abyaneh, Liheng Ma, Rui Heng Yang, Tongtong Cao, Zhanguang Zhang and Yingxue Zhang Source: La-JEPA: Compact Robot Policies with Latent World Modeling · Mateo Clémente, George Z. Xue, Amin Abyaneh, Liheng Ma, Rui Heng Yang, Tongtong Cao, Zhanguang Zhang and Yingxue Zhang Series: Weekly AI Papers · Recent research Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Yann LeCun & Randall Balestriero: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs · Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 5 of 5: Vision-Based Control Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 5 of 5: Vision-Based Control

55 min

The final part connects the series’ robotics and vision foundations through vision-based control. Position-based visual servoing uses estimated spatial quantities, while image-based visual servoing acts on errors measured in image features. The interaction matrix links motion to changes in the image, making the choice of features, depth estimates and camera model consequential. Advanced methods include partitioned, polar-coordinate and spherical-camera approaches to visual servoing. Applications to robot arms, mobile robots and aerial robots close the perception-to-action loop and expose the assumptions and performance limits of the methods. Author: Peter Corke Source: Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python, third edition (2023) · Peter Corke Series: Robotics, Vision and Control — Part 5 of 5 · Vision-Based Control Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books Related episodes: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard) · Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman) · Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 4 of 5: Computer Vision

59 min

Part 4 follows the book’s five computer-vision chapters, from the physical properties of light to information recovered from multiple images. Light, color and image-processing operations explain how measurements become usable digital representations. Region, line and point features provide ways to describe structures and establish correspondences in images. Camera models and calibration relate image measurements to the geometry of the world. Multiple-view geometry and stereo methods show how relationships between images reveal depth, structure and motion, preparing the transition to visual feedback control. Author: Peter Corke Source: Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python, third edition (2023) · Peter Corke Series: Robotics, Vision and Control — Part 4 of 5 · Computer Vision Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books Related episodes: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard) · Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman) · Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 3 of 5: Robot Manipulators

51 min

Part 3 turns from moving a robot’s base to controlling the motion of a robot arm. Forward and inverse kinematics connect joint configurations with the position and orientation of the end effector. The manipulator Jacobian relates joint velocity to task-space motion and reveals the significance of singularities and manipulability. Dynamics adds mass, inertia and the forces or torques required to produce a desired movement. Corke’s control methods connect these models with the practical problem of making an arm follow a commanded motion. Author: Peter Corke Source: Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python, third edition (2023) · Peter Corke Series: Robotics, Vision and Control — Part 3 of 5 · Robot Manipulators Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books Related episodes: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard) · Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman) · Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 2 of 5: Mobile Robotics

59 min

Part 2 follows Corke’s treatment of mobile robots, navigation, localization and mapping. Vehicle models explain how wheeled and aerial robots can move, and which motions their physical constraints permit. Reactive behavior and map-based path planning offer different ways to reach a destination while handling obstacles. Odometry and probabilistic localization address the uncertainty in a robot’s estimate of where it is. Mapping and SLAM bring motion, measurements and environmental structure together, showing why navigation depends on both geometry and reliable estimation. Author: Peter Corke Source: Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python, third edition (2023) · Peter Corke Series: Robotics, Vision and Control — Part 2 of 5 · Mobile Robotics Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books Related episodes: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard) · Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman) · Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Robotics, Vision and Control (Peter Corke) — Part 1 of 5: Introduction and Foundations

57 min

The first part introduces Peter Corke’s Robotics, Vision and Control and the questions that connect sensing, geometry and action. Chapter 1 places mobile robots, robot arms and robotic vision in context, including the ethical responsibilities of building autonomous systems. Chapter 2 develops coordinate frames, relative pose and the representations used to describe position and orientation in two and three dimensions. Chapter 3 connects those geometric descriptions with velocity, acceleration, forces and smooth trajectories through time. Inertial sensing and sensor fusion show how these foundations support a robot’s estimates of its own motion, preparing the ground for mobile robotics. Author: Peter Corke Source: Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python, third edition (2023) · Peter Corke Series: Robotics, Vision and Control — Part 1 of 5 · Introduction and Foundations Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books Related episodes: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard) · Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman) · Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Antisemitism, an American Tradition (Pamela S. Nadell)

53 min

Pamela S. Nadell traces the persistence of antisemitism in America from the arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam in 1654 to contemporary attacks. The book follows religious hostility, political discrimination and social exclusion through successive periods of American history. It examines barriers to citizenship, education and employment alongside propaganda, conspiracy thinking and violence. Nadell also follows Jewish responses to prejudice and the tension between lived discrimination and America’s promise of religious liberty. Her history asks how antisemitism has endured and adapted within a country often understood as a refuge from persecution. Author: Pamela S. Nadell Source: Antisemitism, an American Tradition · Pamela S. Nadell Series: History & Judaism Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living (Dara Horn) · Jew-Hatred: The Latest Edition (Simon Schama) · Confronting Antisemitism: Fighting Antisemitism Today (Theodor Adorno) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Ricoeur’s Early Ethical Philosophy (Leovino Madriaga Garcia): Responsibility and Hope

46 min

Leovino Madriaga Garcia reads Paul Ricoeur’s early philosophy through the relationship between responsibility and hope. The book follows Freedom and Nature, Fallible Man and The Symbolism of Evil to examine willing, human limitation and the acknowledgment of fault. Garcia explains how phenomenology and the interpretation of symbols offer different approaches to understanding human action. He then connects these concerns with Ricoeur’s early essays on civilization, Christian social responsibility, politics and the state. The central question is how an honest account of human fallibility can sustain responsible action and hope for change. Author: Leovino Madriaga Garcia Source: Ricoeur’s Early Ethical Philosophy: Explorations of Responsibility and Hope · Leovino Madriaga Garcia Series: Philosophy & Critical Theory Explore: Philosophy & Critical Theory Related episodes: Memory, History, Forgetting (Paul Ricoeur): Memory and Historical Truth · Time and Narrative (Paul Ricoeur): How Stories Shape Time Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Oneself as Another (Paul Ricoeur): Identity, Ethics and the Other

44 min

Paul Ricoeur asks how we understand ourselves as persons who speak, act, tell stories and answer for what they do. Oneself as Another distinguishes sameness from selfhood, showing why personal identity involves more than remaining unchanged. Its ten studies connect language and agency with narrative identity, promising and relationships with other people. Ricoeur brings the aim of a good life into conversation with moral obligations, just institutions and practical wisdom. The book examines how responsibility and our dependence on others shape what it means to be a self. Author: Paul Ricoeur Source: Oneself as Another · Paul Ricoeur Series: Philosophy & Critical Theory Explore: Philosophy & Critical Theory Related episodes: Memory, History, Forgetting (Paul Ricoeur): Memory and Historical Truth · Time and Narrative (Paul Ricoeur): How Stories Shape Time Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Jew-Hatred: The Latest Edition (Simon Schama)

44 min

Simon Schama asks why antisemitism persists and adapts across different political and religious settings. Jew-Hatred: The Latest Edition, published in Jewish Quarterly 265, connects recurring historical myths with contemporary hostility toward Jews. His essay examines religious prejudice, conspiracy thinking, and the repeated use of Jews as an explanation for wider social anxieties. Schama also considers the October 7 attacks, the war in Gaza, and arguments about Zionism within the current resurgence of antisemitism. The discussion centers on historical evidence, collective blame, and the consequences of these arguments for Jewish life and public debate. Author: Simon Schama Source: Jew-Hatred: The Latest Edition — Jewish Quarterly 265 (October 2026) · Simon Schama Series: History & Judaism · Jewish Quarterly essay Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living (Dara Horn) · Confronting Antisemitism: Fighting Antisemitism Today (Theodor Adorno) · The Concept of God After Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice (Hans Jonas) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Machine Voices: A Sonic Study of Artificial Intelligence (Edward B. Kang)

48 min

What assumptions about speaking and listening are built into a machine that claims to understand a voice? Edward B. Kang investigates how artificial intelligence turns voices into measurable, comparable, and reproducible signals. The book moves from the histories and framing of voice to machine listening, engineered emotion, and synthetic speech. Kang connects these technical practices with the economic, social, and cultural forces that shape what a system recognizes. His concept of the machine voice opens a debate about whose voices count, which standards guide listening, and how technology changes our understanding of human expression. Source: Machine Voices: A Sonic Study of Artificial Intelligence · Edward B. Kang Series: Art & Music · AI Books · Book deep dive Explore: Art & Music · AI Books Related episodes: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard) · Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (Ivan Sag, Thomas Wasow & Emily Bender) · Yann LeCun’s World Models and V-JEPA: Learning from Video Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

On Minds: Reflections of a Cognitive Architect (Paul S. Rosenbloom)

46 min

What kind of architecture could support a mind across different tasks and situations? Paul S. Rosenbloom examines architectures, symbols, intelligence, and theories through decades of research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He maps the choices and trade-offs behind symbolic, neural, and hybrid approaches to intelligent systems. His account connects work on XAPS, Soar, and Sigma with the search for a Common Model of Cognition. The book combines conceptual analysis with a research memoir, asking how the fixed organization of a system can make flexible thought possible. Source: On Minds: Reflections of a Cognitive Architect · Paul S. Rosenbloom Series: AI Books · Book deep dive Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books Related episodes: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard) · Yann LeCun’s World Models and V-JEPA: Learning from Video · The Origin of Concepts (Susan Carey) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

CLIP: Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision (Radford et al.)

1 hr 5 min

CLIP asks whether natural-language descriptions can teach a visual model more flexibly than a fixed set of class labels. Radford and colleagues train image and text encoders on 400 million image-text pairs using a contrastive objective. Text prompts then describe new categories, allowing the model to attempt classification without task-specific labeled training examples. The paper evaluates transfer across more than 30 vision datasets and examines robustness, prompting, and the limits of the approach. This foundational study provides a historical counterpart to the JEPA paper: paired contrastive training offers one route to shared visual and linguistic representations. Authors: Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Pamela Mishkin, Jack Clark, Gretchen Krueger, and Ilya Sutskever Source: Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision · Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy and colleagues Series: Weekly AI Papers · Historical classic Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Yann LeCun’s World Models and V-JEPA: Learning from Video · Backpropagation: Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors (Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams) · VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Yann LeCun & Randall Balestriero: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

53 min

Can models trained separately on images and language arrive at the same representation of the world? Randall Balestriero and Yann LeCun derive alignment up to a rotation for an idealized JEPA setting with shared positive pairs and additional assumptions. They distinguish good views of the same scene from views that preserve the peculiarities of a single observation. Experiments report stronger cross-modal alignment and substantially greater sample efficiency than next-token prediction in the tested settings. The results concern cross-modal alignment under specific assumptions and benchmarks, making their scope central to interpreting the broader claims. Authors: Randall Balestriero and Yann LeCun Source: Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs · Randall Balestriero and Yann LeCun Series: Weekly AI Papers · Recent research Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Yann LeCun’s World Models and V-JEPA: Learning from Video · Backpropagation: Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors (Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams) · VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Deep Learning for Finance: Creating Machine & Deep Learning Models for Trading in Python (Sofien Kaabar)

49 min

Sofien Kaabar explains how to build Python models for financial time series, combining machine learning with technical and quantitative analysis. The book develops the probability, statistics, linear algebra, and data-handling foundations needed for these models. It progresses from regression and tree-based methods to neural networks, recurrent architectures, and deep reinforcement learning. Backtesting, time-series cross-validation, regularization, and retraining help examine model performance and the risks of overfitting. Market drivers, risk management, and behavioral biases place the modeling techniques within the wider practice of financial trading. Series: AI Books · Book deep dive Book: Deep Learning for Finance: Creating Machine & Deep Learning Models for Trading in Python by Sofien Kaabar. Source: O’Reilly Media · January 2024 · ISBN 9781098148393. Author’s code repository. Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books · AI Papers Related episodes: An Advanced Course in Probability and Stochastic Processes (Kroese & Botev) · A First Course in Causal Inference (Peng Ding) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard)

57 min

Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard argue that intelligence depends on interactions among the body, the brain and the environment. How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence uses embodied systems to explore that claim. Robot designs show how physical form and coordination can contribute to behavior. The discussion connects these ideas with development and the emergence of cognition. The book offers a way to question accounts of intelligence that focus primarily on computation inside the brain. Series: AI Books · Book deep dive Source: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence · Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books Related episodes: Neuromorphic Intelligence: Learning, Architectures and Large-Scale Systems (Shuangming Yang & Badong Chen) · Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind (Thomas Griffiths, Nick Chater & Joshua Tenenbaum) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Any Time, Any Space: Coherent Video Generation (Weijie Wang et al.)

46 min

Any Time, Any Space tackles the problem of keeping generated video shots consistent across changes of place, viewpoint, and time. The framework turns a screenplay into shot requests with explicit scene, camera, and event-time references. Scene memory stores registered static geometry, while event memory retains dynamic observations indexed by scene, event, and time. Before generating a shot, the system retrieves relevant evidence; afterward, review and state checks decide whether new observations enter memory. The authors report improvements in cross-shot consistency, spatial revisiting, and event replay across four video generators. Series: Weekly AI Papers · Recent research Authors: Weijie Wang, Haomin Zhang, Ye Li, Akide Liu, Zeyu Zhang, Haoyu Zhao, Yefei He, Donny Y. Chen, Feng Chen, and Bohan Zhuang Source: Any Time, Any Space: A World-State-Centric Framework for Agentic Video Generation · Weijie Wang, Haomin Zhang, Ye Li et al. Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: V-JEPA: Learning Visual Representations from Video (Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun et al.) · VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

An Advanced Course in Probability and Stochastic Processes (Kroese & Botev)

52 min

Kroese and Botev build a rigorous account of probability from measurable spaces, integration, and random variables. They compare different forms of convergence and develop the law of large numbers and central limit theorem. Conditional expectation connects information and independence to Markov chains and other stochastic processes. Martingales, stopping times, and Brownian motion reveal how random systems evolve over time. The book brings these ideas together through stochastic integration, Itô calculus, and stochastic differential equations. Series: Mathematics & Science Book: An Advanced Course in Probability and Stochastic Processes by Dirk P. Kroese and Zdravko I. Botev. Source: Authors’ official book page · Chapman & Hall/CRC · 2023 · ISBN 9781032320465. Read the free author-provided book. Explore: More Mathematics & Science episodes · Browse all series Related episodes: A First Course in Causal Inference (Peng Ding) · Graph Theory (Reinhard Diestel) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning: Active Learning and Annotation for Human-Centered AI (Robert Monarch)

1 hr 7 min

Robert Monarch explains how human judgment and machine learning can work together to build better models. Active learning uses uncertainty and diversity sampling to select examples that most need human feedback. The book examines how to recruit annotators, write instructions, and measure agreement and annotation quality. It connects reliable training and evaluation data with transfer learning and other ways to improve labeling workflows. Annotation interfaces and human-computer interaction bring these methods together in practical machine learning products. Series: AI Books · Book deep dive Book: Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning: Active Learning and Annotation for Human-Centered AI by Robert (Munro) Monarch. Source: Manning Publications · 2021 · 424 pages · ISBN 9781617296741. Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Books · AI Papers Related episodes: Backpropagation: Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors (Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams) · Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People (Brenden Lake et al.) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living (Dara Horn)

58 min

Dara Horn examines why antisemitism persists and why familiar responses can fail to address it. The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living combines historical discussion, reporting and personal experience. Horn questions recurring myths about Jews and examines contemporary responses to anti-Jewish hostility. She argues for a response that attends to living Jewish communities and their future. The episode introduces her argument as a contribution to a continuing debate about antisemitism and Jewish life. Alongside Horn, the conversation draws on economic and historical research, including The Chosen Few by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein. Series: History & Judaism Book: The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living by Dara Horn. Source: Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster · September 1, 2026 · 384 pages · ISBN 9781668090169. Additional source: The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492 (Maristella Botticini & Zvi Eckstein) Explore: More History & Judaism episodes · Browse all series Related episodes: Adorno on Antisemitism · Eichmann vs. Arendt Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Backpropagation: Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors (Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams)

56 min

Backpropagation lets a neural network adjust its internal connections using the errors in its outputs. David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton and Ronald Williams show how hidden units can learn useful representations in their 1986 Nature paper, Learning representations by back-propagating errors. A forward pass computes the outputs, and a backward pass calculates how changes in each weight affect the error. The discussion considers examples in which hidden units discover regularities in the task. This is a foundational account of an artificial learning procedure, rather than a demonstration that the brain implements it in the same way. Series: Weekly AI Papers · Historical classic Authors: David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton, and Ronald J. Williams Source: Learning representations by back-propagating errors · David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Ronald J. Williams Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People (Brenden Lake et al.) · V-JEPA: Learning Visual Representations from Video (Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun et al.) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems (Siran Peng et al.)

37 min

VisionHOPE explores how a vision model can change both its memory and its learning rules while processing an image. Its design connects five memories: content, keys, values, learning rate, and retention. The paper develops controls that keep these coupled updates stable under the conditions established by its analysis. Four directional scans adapt the method to the two-dimensional structure of images, with computation scaling linearly in the number of image tokens. The authors report competitive results on ImageNet classification, COCO object detection, and ADE20K semantic segmentation. This 2026 preprint connects associative memory and Nested Learning to the design of visual backbones. Series: Weekly AI Papers · Recent research Authors: Siran Peng, Tianshuo Zhang, Tianyu Fu, Weisong Zhao, Haoyuan Zhang, Jiankuo Zhao, Minghui Wu, Ping Jiang, Xiangyu Zhu, Chenxu Zhao, and Zhen Lei Source: VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems · Siran Peng, Tianshuo Zhang et al. Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: V-JEPA: Learning Visual Representations from Video (Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun et al.) · Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People (Brenden Lake et al.) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

A First Course in Causal Inference (Peng Ding)

54 min

Peng Ding introduces causal inference from a statistical perspective. The book explains the foundations needed to reason about causal effects rather than associations alone. Examples and applications draw on biostatistics and econometrics. Mathematical arguments are accompanied by exercises, data, and practical R code. The course assumes basic probability, statistical inference, and familiarity with regression. Series: Mathematics & Science · AI Books · Book deep dive A First Course in Causal Inference — Peng Ding Publication source Explore: Mathematics & Science · AI & Computer Science Related episodes: Graph Theory (Reinhard Diestel) · Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Graph Theory (Reinhard Diestel)

1 hr 3 min

Reinhard Diestel’s Graph Theory develops mathematical ways to reason about vertices and the connections between them. The book studies connectivity, matchings, planarity, coloring and flows. Proofs explain what can and cannot be inferred from a graph’s structure. The discussion connects the foundations with more advanced parts of the subject. This is an introduction to the questions behind a mathematical textbook, with the original work available for the definitions and full proofs. Series: Mathematics & Science Graph Theory — Reinhard Diestel Publication source Explore: Mathematics & Science Related episodes: Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall) · A First Course in Causal Inference (Peng Ding) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (Ivan Sag, Thomas Wasow & Emily Bender)

54 min

Ivan Sag, Thomas Wasow and Emily Bender develop ways to describe which sentence structures a grammar permits. Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction builds analyses through problems that expose the limits of simpler accounts. Lexical information and constraints help explain how grammatical structures are licensed. The book connects syntax with meaning and evidence from language processing. Its exercises invite readers to compare competing analyses and test what each one predicts. Series: Language & Linguistics · AI Books · Book deep dive Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction — Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender Publication source Explore: Language & Linguistics · AI & Computer Science Related episodes: Formal Properties of Grammars (Noam Chomsky) · The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody (Nicholas J. Van Handel) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations (Brian Hall)

59 min

Brian Hall introduces Lie groups, Lie algebras, and their representations. Matrix groups provide a concrete starting point for the general theory. The book explains how group structure connects with its infinitesimal algebraic description. Examples such as SU(2) and SU(3) prepare readers for broader representation-theoretic results. The material links continuous symmetry with topics used in mathematics and physics. Series: Mathematics & Science Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations: An Elementary Introduction — Brian C. Hall Publication source Explore: Mathematics & Science Related episodes: Graph Theory (Reinhard Diestel) · A First Course in Causal Inference (Peng Ding) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism - Topics: Jews of Lithuania

42 min

Jews of Lithuania Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 1/2 · Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 2/2 Series: History & Judaism Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 1/2

35 min

This volume examines Judaism in the Hellenistic age. It considers encounters between Jewish communities and Greek culture. Political history accompanies studies of religious and literary change. The essays trace Jewish life within a changing Mediterranean world. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 2: The Hellenistic Age — W. D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein (editors) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 1 - The Persian Period · Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 2/2 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 2/2

47 min

This volume examines Judaism in the Hellenistic age. It considers encounters between Jewish communities and Greek culture. Political history accompanies studies of religious and literary change. The essays trace Jewish life within a changing Mediterranean world. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 2: The Hellenistic Age — W. D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein (editors) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 1/2 · Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 1/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 3/4

54 min

This volume examines Jewish life under early Roman rule. Its essays cover institutions, communities, and schools of thought. Archaeology and inscriptions complement the study of written sources. Christianity is considered within the history of ancient Judaism. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 3: The Early Roman Period — William Horbury, W. D. Davies, and John Sturdy (editors) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 2/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 4/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 1/4

49 min

This volume examines Jewish life under early Roman rule. Its essays cover institutions, communities, and schools of thought. Archaeology and inscriptions complement the study of written sources. Christianity is considered within the history of ancient Judaism. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 3: The Early Roman Period — William Horbury, W. D. Davies, and John Sturdy (editors) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 2/2 · Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 2/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 2/4

41 min

This volume examines Jewish life under early Roman rule. Its essays cover institutions, communities, and schools of thought. Archaeology and inscriptions complement the study of written sources. Christianity is considered within the history of ancient Judaism. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 3: The Early Roman Period — William Horbury, W. D. Davies, and John Sturdy (editors) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 1/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 3/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 4/4

22 min

This volume examines Jewish life under early Roman rule. Its essays cover institutions, communities, and schools of thought. Archaeology and inscriptions complement the study of written sources. Christianity is considered within the history of ancient Judaism. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 3: The Early Roman Period — William Horbury, W. D. Davies, and John Sturdy (editors) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 3/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 1/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 3/4

55 min

This volume covers Judaism from 70 to 640 CE. It examines the growth of rabbinic institutions and traditions. The Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash receive sustained attention. The essays place these developments within late Roman Jewish life. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period — Steven T. Katz (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 2/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 4/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 2/4

39 min

This volume covers Judaism from 70 to 640 CE. It examines the growth of rabbinic institutions and traditions. The Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash receive sustained attention. The essays place these developments within late Roman Jewish life. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period — Steven T. Katz (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 1/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 3/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 4/4

41 min

This volume covers Judaism from 70 to 640 CE. It examines the growth of rabbinic institutions and traditions. The Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash receive sustained attention. The essays place these developments within late Roman Jewish life. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period — Steven T. Katz (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 3/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 1/3 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 1/4

44 min

This volume covers Judaism from 70 to 640 CE. It examines the growth of rabbinic institutions and traditions. The Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash receive sustained attention. The essays place these developments within late Roman Jewish life. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period — Steven T. Katz (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 4/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 2/4 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 1/3

28 min

This volume follows Jewish communities in the medieval Islamic world. It examines changes in daily life, scholarship, and communal organization. Islamic expansion reshaped where Jews lived and how they traded. The essays connect local histories across a broad geographical setting. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World — Phillip I. Lieberman (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 4/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 2/3 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 3/3

54 min

This volume follows Jewish communities in the medieval Islamic world. It examines changes in daily life, scholarship, and communal organization. Islamic expansion reshaped where Jews lived and how they traded. The essays connect local histories across a broad geographical setting. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World — Phillip I. Lieberman (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 2/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 1/3 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 2/3

55 min

This volume follows Jewish communities in the medieval Islamic world. It examines changes in daily life, scholarship, and communal organization. Islamic expansion reshaped where Jews lived and how they traded. The essays connect local histories across a broad geographical setting. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World — Phillip I. Lieberman (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 1/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 3/3 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 3/3

1 hr 4 min

This volume examines medieval Jewish life in the Christian world. It follows changes associated with the growth of Western Christendom. The essays consider Jewish communities and their surrounding societies. Religious and cultural developments accompany the history of medieval Jewry. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian World — Robert Chazan (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 2/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 1/3 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 1/3

45 min

This volume examines medieval Jewish life in the Christian world. It follows changes associated with the growth of Western Christendom. The essays consider Jewish communities and their surrounding societies. Religious and cultural developments accompany the history of medieval Jewry. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian World — Robert Chazan (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 3/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 2/3 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 2/3

56 min

This volume examines medieval Jewish life in the Christian world. It follows changes associated with the growth of Western Christendom. The essays consider Jewish communities and their surrounding societies. Religious and cultural developments accompany the history of medieval Jewry. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian World — Robert Chazan (editor) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 1/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 3/3 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Cambridge History of Judaism 1 - The Persian Period

39 min

This volume introduces Jewish history under Persian rule. It places the period within the wider history of Judaism. Historical sources frame questions about Jewish communities and institutions. The collection establishes the starting point for the Cambridge series. Series: History & Judaism The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 1: Introduction: The Persian Period — W. D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein (editors) Publication source Explore: History & Judaism Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 1/2 · Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 2/2 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

World Models and V-JEPA: Learning from Video (Yann LeCun & Adrien Bardes et al.)

52 min

Yann LeCun’s proposal for autonomous machine intelligence asks how AI might learn models of the world through observation. This conversation connects his 2022 position paper with the 2024 V-JEPA study by Adrien Bardes and colleagues, including LeCun. V-JEPA learns by predicting representations of missing video regions rather than reconstructing every pixel. The paper evaluates those learned representations on image and video recognition tasks. The episode explores the connection between that learning objective and the broader ambition of building machines that can understand and act in the world. Series: AI Papers Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Video (V-JEPA) — Adrien Bardes and colleagues Publication source Additional source: A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence (Yann LeCun, 2022) Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers Related episodes: Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People (Brenden Lake et al.) · Neuromorphic Intelligence: Learning, Architectures and Large-Scale Systems (Shuangming Yang & Badong Chen) Authors: Adrien Bardes, Quentin Garrido, Jean Ponce, Xinlei Chen, Michael Rabbat, Yann LeCun, Mahmoud Assran, and Nicolas Ballas Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Jacob Eisenstein)

51 min

Jacob Eisenstein introduces computational methods for understanding, generating, and manipulating language. The book establishes machine-learning tools before applying them to text analysis. Sequences, trees, and graphs provide structured representations of linguistic information. Accounts of meaning range from formal logic to neural word embeddings. Applications include information extraction, machine translation, and text generation. Series: AI Books · Book deep dive Introduction to Natural Language Processing — Jacob Eisenstein Publication source Explore: AI & Computer Science · Language & Linguistics Related episodes: Speech and Language Processing (Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin) — Part 2 · Speech and Language Processing (Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin) — Part 1 Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman)

45 min

Abelson and Sussman examine how programs are built from reusable ideas and abstractions. Procedures and data abstractions provide ways to organize increasingly complex computations. The book studies state, evaluation, and the design of interpreters and compilers. Scheme examples connect programming techniques with models of how computation works. Its emphasis is on understanding program structure and creating languages for expressing solutions. Series: AI Books · Book deep dive Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs — Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman Publication source Explore: AI & Computer Science Related episodes: Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Michael Sipser) · The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (James Gleick) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

Speech and Language Processing (Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin) — Part 2

40 min

Jurafsky and Martin survey computational approaches to speech and human language. The book connects linguistic representations with statistical and machine-learning methods. Its topics range from words and sequences to syntax, meaning, and language understanding. Applications show how these methods support systems that analyze and generate language. The text provides a foundation for studying the algorithms and assumptions behind language technology. Series: AI Books · Book deep dive Speech and Language Processing — Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin Publication source Explore: AI & Computer Science · Language & Linguistics Related episodes: Speech and Language Processing (Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin) — Part 1 · Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Jacob Eisenstein) Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!

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