Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
by joddystreet on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:12AM
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Bhagvad Gita (as it is) - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Not just a spiritual book, more like the guiding principles that anyone, starting something new, could use.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner
Bell Labs, the RnD wing of AT&T-was the best laboratory for new ideas in the world. The book tells a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant people - Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker.
Peak - Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
You must have heard this a 1000 times - "you can do this", the book is about - "yes, and this is how"
The master algorithm - Pedro Domingos
Book details out the philosophies of various schools of thought in AI - deep learning, bayesian, genetic, reasoning - in a very simple language.
What technology wants - Kevin Kelly
Technology is a living organism and there are patterns to the technology evolution, not unlike the organic evolution.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner
Bell Labs, the RnD wing of AT&T-was the best laboratory for new ideas in the world. The book tells a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant people - Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker.
Peak - Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool You must have heard this a 1000 times - "you can do this", the book is about - "yes, and this is how"
The master algorithm - Pedro Domingos Book details out the philosophies of various schools of thought in AI - deep learning, bayesian, genetic, reasoning - in a very simple language.
What technology wants - Kevin Kelly Technology is a living organism and there are patterns to the technology evolution, not unlike the organic evolution.