You are what you read - since the start of the pandemic, I have tried to read more. Writing down and sharing what I have been reading has helped me to stay on track with my lofty reading goals. Last updated: EOY 2023
Reading - technical
Generative Deep Learning by David Foster
Machine Learning System Design Interview by Ali Aminian & Alex Xu
Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision - End-to-End Machine Learning for Images by Valliappa Lakshmanan
C# in Depth, Fourth Edition by Jon Skeet
Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning - Active learning and annotation for human-centered AI by Robert Monarch
Graph Machine Learning by Claudio Stamile
Ace the Data Science Interview by Kevin Huo
Learning deep learning by Magnus Ekman
AI and Machine Learning for On-Device Development by Laurence Moroney
CoreML survival guide by Matthijs Hollemans
The Phoenix Project - a Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
Effective Python - 59 specific ways to write better Python by Brett Slatkin
Perspectives in Flow Control and Optimization by Max Gunzburger
Deep learning with Python by Francois Chollet
The hundred-page machine learning book by Andriy Burkov
Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
Learning TensorFlow by Tom Hope, Yehezkel S. Resheff & Itay Lieder
API design for C++ by Martin Reddy
Pattern recognition and machine learning by Christopher Bishop
Biophysics of computation by Christof Koch
Reading - nonfiction
The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
Soonish - Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
What is life? by Paul Nurse
Cribsheet by Emily Oster
The Montessori Baby by Simone Davies & Junnifa Uzodike
Expecting Better by Emily Oster
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
Lords of Finance - 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
Numbers Don't Lie - 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Vaclav Smil
I Contain Multitudes - The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Stay True - A Memoir by Hua Hsu
Life Lived Wild - Adventures at the Edge of the Map by Rick Ridgeway
A Crack In Creation - Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Reprogramming the American Dream by Kevin Scott
Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
Wish Lanterns - Young Lives in New China by Alec Ash
Tribe - on homecoming and belonging by Sebastian Junger
We need to talk about Putin by Mark Galeotti
The Almighty Dollar by Dharshini David
The last lecture by Randy Pausch
The European Union - A Citizen's Guide by Chris Bickerton
Nudge by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
The power to compete by Hiroshi Mikitani
The courage to be happy by Ichiro Kishimi
The courage to be disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
A Concise History of Modern Europe - Liberty, Equality, Solidarity by David S. Mason
Under a White Sky - The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
On the Brink - The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi by Ryusho Kadota
The Winding Road to Discovering iPS Cells - The Life of Yamanaka Shinya by Yamanaka Shinya
What I think about when I think about running by Haruki Murakami
How to avoid a climate disaster by Bill Gates
Immune - A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
Forward by Andrew Yang
A promised land by Barrack Obama
Invisible China by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell
Blockchain chicken farm by Xiaowei Wang
China - A new history by John King Fairbank & Merle Goldman
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
Smart people should build things by Andrew Yang
The war on normal people by Andrew Yang
WTF? - What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us by Tim O'Reilly
Consciousness by Christof Koch
TED Talks - The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? by Frans de Waal
The bonobo and the atheist by Frans de Waal
Last chance to see by Douglas Adams
Sustainable energy - without the hot air by David JC MacKay
Reading - fiction
Diary of a void by Emi Yagi
Monkey - New Writing from Japan - Volume 2 - Travel by Ted Goossen, Motoyuki Shibata
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Wonderland by Haruki Murakami
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
A map for the missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo
How do you live? by Genzaburo Yoshino
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Call to Arms by Lu Xun
All the lovers in the night by Mieko Kawakami
Kim Jiyoung - Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki
Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Breasts and eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
A wild sheep chase by Haruki Murakami
1984 by George Orwell
The voice of the dolphins by Leo Szilard