Reading List
choosing the right book is about doing your research and commiting only after you've read blips of, heard reviews for, seen your friends read.
Currently
- Kitchen Confidential
- Deep Learning for Coders :^)
Read
- CS:APP
- Zero to One
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Blood Meridian
- The Sun Also Rises
- Understanding Comics
- No Country For Old Men
- The Grapes of Wrath
- White Noise - Don DeLillo
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
- Fight Club
- Infinite Jest
- A Clockwork Orange
- Life of Pi
- Consider the Lobster - DFW
- Bukowski
- D is for Digital
- Crafting Interpreters
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Wizard Book)
- Spelunky - Boss Fight Books
- HPMOR
- Paper Belt on Fire
- Build - Tony Fadell
- Chaos Monkeys - AGM
- Liar's Poker
- Friendly Ambitious Nerds
- You and Your Research - Richard Hamming
- How To Work Hard http://paulgraham.com/hwh.html
- Eulogy to _why https://johnresig.com/blog/eulogy-to-_why/
- Grub Brain Developer
- Poetry And Ambition https://poets.org/text/poetry-and-ambition?utm_source=pocket_reader
- Culture Creep https://nicheless.blog/post/creep
- https://scale.com/blog/text-universal-interface
- Always Bet on Text https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
- https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information
- The Case for Bad Coffee https://www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for-bad-coffee
- https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency
- Teaching Is A Slow Process of Becoming Everything You Hate https://dynomight.net/teaching/
- 14 hours in queue to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-queen-elizabeth
- https://www.booritney.com/writing/well-placed-effort
- The Bitter Lesson - Rich Sutton http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
- https://hypertext.joodaloop.com/
- https://www.thefp.com/p/the-case-for-american-seriousness
- https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/06/a-very-unlikely-chess-game/
- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/ all data is meaningless without an encoding
- https://cds.cern.ch/record/369245/files/dd-89-001.pdf original proposal for the internet
- https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/NatureDeepReview.pdf
- https://www.yitay.net/blog/training-great-llms-entirely-from-ground-zero-in-the-wilderness
- PCA https://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/publications/OUCS-2002-12.pdf
- entropy https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.1998
Watched
- Arrival
- The End of The Tour
- Baby Driver
- Superbad
- Napolean Dynamite
- Dead Poet's Society
- The Queen's Gambit
- Taxi Driver
- Groundhog day
- Lilo and Stitch
- Good Will Hunting
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Seinfeld
- Studio Ghibli
- Castle in the Sky
- Princess Mononoki
- Keke's Delivery Service
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Indie Game the Movie
- Metal Lords
- Samurai Champloo
- Ping Pong the Animation
- Joker
- Road to El Dorado
- Prince of Egypt
- How To Train Your Dragon
- Puss in Boots
- Black Swan
- Whiplash
- Avatar Way of Water
- Top Gun
- Planes Trains and Automobiles
- Wednesday
- Die Hard
- 2001 a Space Odyssey
- Ford Vs. Ferrari
- Parasite
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Prestige
- The End of the Tour
- Memento
- Oppenhiemer
- Barbie
- DUNE
- Fargo
- Your Name
- Good Time
- One Cut of the Dead
- Hunger Games
- Spiderverse
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Ocean Waves
- He's Just Not That Into You
- Mars Express
- [This is Phil Fish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w)
- [Jonathon Blow - Truth in Game Design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FUtrmO7gI)
- geohot
- [Kaytranada Boiler Room]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EQIiabJvk
- [Basic Poker Theory]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoPLFaeq0U
Stale Interests
- Dune
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby
- Dragon Book (Compilers)
- Essays by Paul Graham
- Operating Systems in 3 Easy Steps
- Gravity's Rainbow
- The Corrections by Jon Franzen
- DDIA
- BEEJ's networking guide
- A Brief History Of Time