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Books

A non-exhaustive list of things I’ve been reading since around 2020.

Fiction

• Invasion from Mars: Interplanetary Stories (selected by Orson Welles)
• Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• The Exchange (John Grisham)
• The Muralist (B.A. Shapiro)
• The Circle (Dave Eggers)
• A World of Curiosities (Louise Penny)
• Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
• The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
• The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
• How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
• Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut)
• American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
• The Candy House (Jennifer Egan)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
• Exit West (Mohsin Hamid)
• The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
• Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut)
• Inferno (Dan Brown)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Nonfiction

• Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)
• The Worlds I See (Fei-Fei Li)
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
• The Book of Why (Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie)
• Models of the Mind (Grace Lindsay)
• Ethical Algorithms (Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth)
• The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
• Man’s Quest for God (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
• The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver)
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Kay Jamison)
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Brian Greene)
• A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)

Academic and educational

• Learning with Kernels: Support Vector Machines, Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond (Bernhard Schölkopf and Alexander J. Smola)
• Testing Statistical Hypotheses (E. L. Lehmann and Joseph P. Romano)
• Patterns, Predictions, and Actions (Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht)
• Probability: Theory and Examples (Rick Durrett)
• Deep Learning (Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville)
• An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory (Michael Kearns and Umesh Vazirani)
• Bayesian Data Analysis (Andrew Gelman)
• Statistical Rethinking (Richard McElreath)

Music

Here’s a sampling of music I’ve been listening to recently, not necessarily new:

• Deadbeat, Tame Impala
• STAR LINE, Chance the Rapper
• סוף חמה לבוא, Ishay Ribo
• SOS, SZA
• NEVER ENOUGH, Daniel Caesar
• The People’s Champ, Quinn XCII
• There’s Really a Wolf, Russ
• Carry It Well (Acoustic) - Single, Sam Fischer
• Channel Orange, Frank Ocean
• Songs I Wrote in My Bedroom, Anson Seabra

I also produced an a cappella album in college: DynamIX.