Random Thoughts

This is a collection of some of my thoughts and interesting finds.

Books

Below is a non-exhaustive list of books I read over the years (and some I also haven’t read and want to still read). I marked the ones that particularly stood out to me and had a positive impact on my life.

Non-fiction

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
  • How to Live - Derek Sivers
  • Hell Yeah or No - Derek Sivers
  • Anything you want - Derek Sivers
  • Never Finished - David Goggins
  • Essentialism - Greg McKeown
  • The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
  • A Brief History of Intelligence - Max Bennett
  • Atomic Habits - James Clear
  • Stuff Matters - Mark Miodownik
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
  • Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt
  • The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Textbooks

Machine Learning and AI

  • Probabilistic Machine Learning - Murphy
  • Understanding Deep Learning - Prince
  • Hands on Machine Learning - Geron
  • Mathematics for Machine Learning - Deisenroth
  • Machine Learning: an applied introduction - Wilmott

Physics

  • Concepts in Thermal Physics - Blundell
  • Feynman Lectures (duh) - Feynman
  • Modern Quantum Mechanics - Sakurai
  • Modern Condensed Matter Physics - Girvin and Yang
  • Quantum Information Theory - Wilde
  • Landau Lifschitz Series (if you enjoy pain)
  • Quantum Mechanics: Symmetries - Greiner
  • Quantum Theory, Groups and Representation - Woit