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Books I am currently reading, and books I find interesting.

Currently Reading

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) by Holly Jackson
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't...more
The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has...more
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
Highly effective thinking is an art that engineers and scientists can be taught to develop. By presenting actual experiences and analyzing them as they are described, the author conveys the developmental thought processes employed and shows a style of...more
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by Dwarkesh Patel
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.

How did we build large language models? How do they think, if they think? What will the world look like if we have billions of AIs that are as...more

Quotes

"life is never simple paths—only dizzying labyrinths folding in on themselves."
-- John Green
"If you want something done well, do it yourself,"
-- Beth O'Leary
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