Recommended Further Reading
A collection of the collected
Sharing here a list of those books that have been written about or referenced in the course of this blog with the associated essays, in chronological order of appearance. All are recommended reading. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. For additional essays please refer to the Table of Contents.
The Bed of Procrustes — Nassim Taleb
essays: Introductional Aphorisms / Aphorisms
Zero to One — Peter Thiel
essays: Towards a Distributed Florida
Thinking, Fast and Slow— Daniel Kahneman
essays: Fools Rush In / Data Distribution Drift
Fooled By Randomness — Nassim Taleb
essays: On Fasting / A Game of Convexity
Crossing the Chasm — Geoffrey Moore
essays: #SPIconvention 2016 / Pitch Deck
The Success Equation — Michael Mauboussin
essays: Dodgeball
Benjamin Franklin — Walter Isaacson
essays: A Letter to the Editor (in two parts)
The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki
essays: Bayesian Leanings for Fun and/or Profit
The Signal and the Noise — Nate Silver
essays: Bayesian Leanings for Fun and/or Profit
Superforecasting — Dan Gardner and Philip Tetlock
essays: Bayesian Leanings for Fun and/or Profit
The Inevitable — Kevin Kelly
essays: Bayesian Leanings for Fun and/or Profit
Idea Makers — Stephen Wolfram
essays: Idea Makers
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman
essays: Idea Makers / Postscript / Pitch Deck / Data Distribution Drift / Drift Reporting with Automunge
What Do You Care What Other People Think? — Richard Feynman
essays: Idea Makers
QED — Richard Feynman
essays: Idea Makers / Quantum Machine Learning
Feynman Lectures On Computation — Richard Feynman
essays: Idea Makers / Quantum Machine Learning
The Feynman Lectures on Physics — Richard Feynman
essays: Idea Makers / Postscript
Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers — Murray Gell-Mann
essays: Idea Makers
Gödel Escher Bach — Douglas Hofstadter
essays: Idea Makers / It’s Actually Pretty Simple / Subtractive Adversarial Networks / A Family for Data / Machine Learning and Miscellanea
A New Kind of Science — Stephen Wolfram
essays: Idea Makers / It’s Actually Pretty Simple / A New Kind of Physics
Republic, Lost — Lawrence Lessig
essays: Silent Collusion
Jazz Giants — K. Abé
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
M.C. Escher — The Graphic Work
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple / Subtractive Adversarial Networks
The Annotated Turing — Alan Turing and Charles Petzold
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
Kind of Blue — Miles Davis
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
The Fractal Geometry of Nature — Benoit Mandelbrot
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
At Home in the Universe — Stuart Kauffman
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
Making Things Work — Yaneer Bar-Yam
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple / Making the Complex Coherent
The Quark and the Jaguar — Murray Gell-Mann
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple / Open Source Automated Data_Wrangling
The Well-Tempered Clavier — Johann Sebastian Bach
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
The Mind’s I — Douglas Hofstadter
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
The Emperor’s New Mind — Roger Penrose
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple / A Betting Man’s Game
Collected Fictions — Jorge Luis Borges
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple / A Family for Data / Automunge Complete
Fire in the Mind — George Johnson
essays: It’s Actually Pretty Simple
House of Leaves — Mark Danielewski
essays: Immersive Writing — A Manifesto
Ship of Theseus — J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
essays: Immersive Writing — A Manifesto
Essays — Michel de Montaigne
essays: Immersive Writing — A Manifesto / A Toddler Learns to Speak / Faster Data Pre-processing for Machine Learning
Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
essays: Long Distance Runner
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
essays: Long Distance Runner / On Lemons and their Progeny
Enchiridion — Epictetus
essays: Long Distance Runner
Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes (graphic novel by Rob Davis)
essays: The Young Quixote’s Cat
The Sandman— Neil Gaiman
essays: A Video Games Review
Watchmen — Alan Moore
essays: A Video Games Review
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
essays: A Video Games Review
It’s Not All About Me — Robin Dreeke
essays: A Video Games Review
Cognitive Surplus — Clay Shirky
essays: A Video Games Review
The Picture Bible — Iva Hoth and Andre Le Blanc
essays: An Imperfect Christian
The Daily Bible
essays: An Imperfect Christian
The Black Swan — Nassim Taleb
essays: A Betting Man’s Game / A Game of Convexity
Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
essays: Life as the Medium /An Insomniac’s Request / It’s Actually Pretty Simple
The History of Western Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
essays: On Lemons and their Progeny
Everything — Aaron Haspel
essays: On Writing / Aphorisms
Blue Notes — John Hamer
essays: On Writing
Deep Learning — Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
essays: From the Diaries of John Henry / A Toddler Learns to Speak / A Sight for Obscured Eyes / Quantum Machine Learning / The Choices of a New Generation / Open Source Automated Data_Wrangling / Dropping Out for Fun and Profit / Automunge Complete / Pitch Deck / Getting Caught Up
Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know — Jerry Kaplan
essays: From the Diaries of John Henry
The Master Algorithm — Pedro Domingos
essays: From the Diaries of John Henry
The Second Machine Age — Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
essays: From the Diaries of John Henry
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
essays: From the Diaries of John Henry
Technology, Management, and Society — Peter Drucker
essays: From the Diaries of John Henry
Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
essays: From the Diaries of John Henry / Open Source Automated Data_Wrangling / Machine Learning and Miscellanea
Quantum Computing Since Democritus — Scott Aaronson
essays: Quibbling Over Qubits / Quantum Machine Learning / Quantum Supremacy
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information — Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang
essays: Quibbling Over Qubits / Quantum Machine Learning / Open Source Automated Data_Wrangling / Quantum Supremacy
The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene
essays: A Theory of Everything / Information Theory
Deep Learning With Python — Francois Chollet
essays: My First Kaggle / A Toddler Learns to Speak / Quantum Machine Learning / The Choices of a New Generation / ML Infill for Data Wrangling / Faster Data Pre-processing for Machine Learning / Automunge Complete / Pitch Deck
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow — Aurélien Géron
essays: My First Kaggle / Faster Data Pre-processing for Machine Learning / Automunge Complete / Pitch Deck
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe — Roger Penrose
essays: Quantum Machine Learning / Information Theory / Quantum Machine Learning
The Road to Reality — Roger Penrose
essays: Quantum Machine Learning / Quantum Supremacy
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders — Warren Buffet
essays: Wind Power in America
Skin in the Game — Nassim Taleb
essays: Making the Complex Coherent / A Game of Convexity / Open Source Automated Data_Wrangling
Social Physics — Alex Pentland
essays: Making the Complex Coherent
Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems — Hiroki Sayama
essays: Making the Complex Coherent
Network Science — Albert-László Barabási
essays: Making the Complex Coherent
The Sciences of the Artificial — Herbert Simon
essays: Making the Complex Coherent
Micromotives and Macrobehavior — Thomas Schelling
essays: Making the Complex Coherent
The Far Side — Gary Larson
essays: On Mornings
The Pmarca Blog Archives —Marc Andreessen
essays: The Psychology of Bitcoin Misjudgment
Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Peter Kaufman and Ed Wexler
essays: The Psychology of Bitcoin Misjudgment
Influence — Robert Cialdini
essays: The Psychology of Bitcoin Misjudgment
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor — Tren Griffin
essays: The Psychology of Bitcoin Misjudgment
A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole
essays: A Table of Contents
The Orphan Master’s Son — Adam Johnson
essays: A Table of Contents
Antifragile — Nassim Taleb
essays: An Optimal Trade / A Game of Convexity / Automunge Inc. / Machine Learning and Miscellanea / When Life Calls for a Leap / Pitch Deck
A Man for All Markets — Edward Thorp
essays: An Optimal Trade
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language — Stephen Wolfram
essays: An Optimal Trade / Automunge Complete
Essays — Paul Graham
essays: A Toddler Learns to Speak / A Table of Contents
Calvin and Hobbes — Bill Watterson
essays: A Toddler Learns to Speak
Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists — James Geary
essays: Aphorisms / Aphorisms and Etc
Finnegan’s Wake — James Joyce
essays: A Sight for Obscured Eyes
The C Programming Language — Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
essays: Differential Privacy / Automunge Complete
A Mind at Play — by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
essays: Information Theory
The Systems Bible — John Gall
essays: Government Reform
Feynman and Computation — Anthony Hey
essays: King Arthur’s Quest / Quantum Machine Learning
Einstein — Walter Isaacson
essays: King Arthur’s Quest
Louis Armstrong — Laurence Bergreen
essays: King Arthur’s Quest
Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis
essays: King Arthur’s Quest
This is Water — David Foster Wallace
essays: King Arthur’s Quest
Shakespeare Complete Works — William Shakespeare
essays: Subtractive Adversarial Networks
Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
essays: Subtractive Adversarial Networks
The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of — Stephen Hawking
essays: Quantum Machine Learning
The Gospel According to Tony Soprano — Chris Seay
essays: Parenting Through the Looking Glass
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
essays: Parenting Through the Looking Glass
On the Shortness of Life — Seneca
essays: On On the Shortness of Life /A Family for Data / Postscript
Python for Data Analysis — Wes McKinney
essays: Wrangling for Smart People / Composing Features with Automunge / Automunge Complete / Pitch Deck
Seeking Wisdom — Peter Bevelin
essays: Automunge / Pitch Deck
Code Complete — Steve McConnell
essays: It’s Only a Munger of Time / Automunge Complete / Pitch Deck
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish — Douglas Adams
essays: Automated Data Wrangling with Machine Learning Derived Infill for Missing Values / Open Source Automated Data-Wrangling
Innovation and Entrepreneurship — Peter Drucker
essays: Predictions and Encodings / Automunge Inc. / Pitch Deck / Entrepreneur Introspection
Emerson: Essays and Lectures — Ralph Waldo Emerson
essays: Munging in the Real World
Feature Engineering for Machine Learning — Alice Zheng & Amanda Casari
essays: Out of the Box Feature Engineering / An Open Source Platform for Feature Engineering / Automunge Complete / Pitch Deck
The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
essays: A Tool For Data
Notebooks — Leonardo da Vinci
essays: Life as the Medium / Automunge Inc.
Pandas Cookbook — Theodore Petrou
essays: Open Source Automated Data_Wrangling / Automunge Complete
My Inventions — Nikola Tesla
essays: Open Source Automated Data_Wrangling
Letters of Note — Shaun Usher
essays: A Family for Data
Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
essays: Postscript
Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction — Eleanor Rieffel, Wolfgang Polak, William Gropp, and Ewing Lusk
essays: Postscript
Scale — Geoffrey West
essays: Machine Learning and Miscellanea
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
essays: Machine Learning and Miscellanea
Apollo 8 — Jeffrey Kluger
essays: The Final Frontier
Isaac’s Storm — Erik Larson
essays: Weather Report
Programming the Universe — Seth Lloyd
essays: Life as the Medium
An Introduction to Information Theory — John Pierce
essays: Life as the Medium
Flatland — Edwin Abbott
essays: Life as the Medium, Visualizing Higher Dimensions
Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
essays: Life as the Medium
Troublemakers — Leslie Berlin
essays: Dimensionality Reduction with Automunge
Robot-Proof — Joseph Aoun
essays: Learning to Learn with Automunge
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — David Eggers
essays: Learning to Learn with Automunge
Rocket Man — Jessica Easto
essays: Automunge Complete
The Descent of Man — Charles Darwin
essays: Automunge Complete
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
essays: Automunge Complete
From the Diaries of John Henry — Nicholas Teague
essays: Preparing Data for Machine Learning with Automunge v1.78 / Diverse Feature Engineering with Automunge v1.799 / Artificial Learning, Intelligent Machines / Data Distribution Drift / Probabilistic Programming Possibilities
Five Lessons — Ben Hogan
essays: Dodgeball / On Lemons and their Progeny / Composing Features with Automunge / The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Mythical Man-Month — Frederick Brooks, Jr.
essays: No Silver Bullet
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
essays: isFraud?
Orphée Suite — Philip Glass
essays: Munging Supremacy
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference — Greta Thunberg
essays: Machine Learning and Climate Change
Rebooting AI — Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis
essays: A New Kind of ML
A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics— Stephen Wolfram
essays: A New Kind of Physics
Machine Learning Design Patterns — Valliappa Lakshmanan, Sara Robinson, Michael Munn
essays: Hashed Categoric Encodings with Automunge
Programming Quantum Computers — Eric Johnston, Nic Hurrigan, and Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia
essays: Circle Notation / A New Kind of Data
Liftoff — Eric Berger
essays: Go for Launch
Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch — Jeremy Howard and Sylvian Gugger
essays: A Numbers Game / Oversampling with Automunge
The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
essays: Oversampling with Automunge
The Book of Why — Judea Pearl
essays: The Ladder of Whys
What You Do is Who You Are — Ben Horowitz
essays: On the Radio
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming
essays: Visualizing Higher Dimensions
Blue Ocean Strategy — W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
essays: Entrepreneur Introspection
The Complex Alternative — David Krakauer & Geoffrey West
essays: Covid Considerations from Santa Fe
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory — Daniel Roberts & Sho Yaida
essays: The Dimensional Framings of Overparameterization
* An asterisk is deserved on this collection. Although I did not site his books extensively, the author Nassim Taleb has had an outsized influence on my philosophy and writings. In following his published works and social media posts I have learned much about probability, risk-taking, recognizing BS, and honor. I will list here again all of his Incerto series of books, and can’t recommend them highly enough. Please consider this note the citation for the certain influence that his work has had on my writings.
Fooled By Randomness
The Black Swan
The Bed of Procrustes
Antifragile
Skin in the Game
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For further readings please check out my Table of Contents and Music Recommendations.
