# Start here! Welcome to my wiki. This is a compilation of everything that I know. ## What is this? I spend a lot of time online. This wiki is a way for me to catalog the things that I find as well as organize my notes and writings. ## How does it work? All of the information is hosted on my [Github](https://github.com/pmohun/knowledge) and written in Markdown. Content is organized into topics and contains raw notes, links to projects, and references. Although the wiki is mostly for personal use, I try to write in a way that makes it accessible for anyone. ## How do I use it? Feel free to start with the sidebar and poke around for topics you find interesting. You can also use the search bar for keywords. ## Get in touch. You can provide comments by editing this repository [on Github](https://github.com/pmohun/knowledge/pulls). If you want to reach out directly, you can reach me at philmohun (at) gmail.com I also write blogs [on Medium](https://medium.com/@philmohun/latest), post short stories [on my website](https://philmohun.com), publish a [weekly newsletter](https://philmohun.substack.com), and think aloud [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/philmohun). # Books I enjoy reading. I keep a running list of books that I would recommend to anyone. This space is used to catalog books that I have read and when I started them. ## Catalog | Read | Title | Author | Category | Legend | | ---: | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------- | :------: | :----: | | 2019 | The Secret of Apollo | Stephen Johnson | NF | - | | 2019 | What Do You Care What Other People Think? | Richard Fenyman | AB | - | | 2019 | Bitcoin Billionaires | Ben Mezrich | NF | - | | 2019 | Bad Blood | John Carreyrou | NF | - | | 2019 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | SF | - | | 2019 | The Mezzanine | Nicholson Baker | NF | - | | 2019 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | F | - | | 2019 | Art of War | Sun Tzu | P | - | | 2019 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | F | - | | 2019 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | SF | - | | 2019 | Turing's Cathedral | George Dyson | NF | 🧠 | | 2019 | The Everything Store | Brad Stone | B | - | | 2019 | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fenyman | Richard Fenyman | B | 🌟 | | 2019 | Zero to One | Peter Thiel | M | - | | 2019 | Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | AB | 🌟 | | 2019 | Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | B | - | | 2019 | Become What You Are | Alan Watts | P | - | | 2019 | Can't Hurt Me | David Goggins | AB | - | | 2018 | Factfulness | Hans Rosling | NF | 🧠 | | 2018 | Becoming | Michelle Obama | B | - | | 2018 | Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind | Yuval Noah Harari | NF | 🧠 | | 2018 | The Collapsing Empire | John Scalzi | SF | - | | 2018 | The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | AB | - | | 2018 | The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | M | 🌟 | | 2018 | Machine Learning | Hugh Howey | SF | - | | 2018 | Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | SF | - | | 2018 | The Three Body Problem | Cixin Liu | SF | - | | 2017 | Hyperion Cantos | Dan Simmons | SF | 🌟 | | 2017 | Elon Musk | Ashlee Vance | B | - | | 2017 | Saturn Run | John Sandford | SF | - | | 2017 | Trilogy War Stories | Ken Follett | F | - | | 2017 | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | F | 🌟 | | 2017 | Yeager | Chuck Yeager | AB | - | | 2017 | The Dark Tower Series | Stephen King | F, H | - | | 2017 | Salem's Lot | Stephen King | H | - | | 2016 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | F | - | | - | Fahreinheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | F | - | | - | 1984 | George Orwell | F | - | | - | Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep | Phillip Dick | SF | - | | - | Foundation Series | Isaac Asimov | SF | 🌟 | | - | Robot Series | Isaac Asimov | SF | - | | - | Dune | Frank Herbert | SF | 🌟 | | - | His Dark Materials Series | Philip Pullman | F, YA | 🌟 | | - | Artemis Fowl Series | Eoin Colfer | F, YA | - | | - | The Keys to the Kingdom Series | Garth Nix | F, YA | - | | - | The Great Tree of Avalon | TA Barron | F, YA | - | | - | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | F, YA | - | | - | The Heir Chronicles | Cinda W. Chima | F, YA | - | | - | The Merlin Saga | TA Barron | F, YA | - | | - | Dragonlance Series | Weis & Hickman | F, YA | - | | - | Pendragon Series | DJ MacHale | F, YA | - | | - | Bartimaeus Trilogy | Jonathan Stroud | F, YA | - | | - | The Chronicles of Narnia | CS Lewis | F, YA | 🌟 | | - | The Merlin Conspiracy | Diana W. Jones | F, YA | - | | - | The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkein | F | - | | - | Game of Thrones | George RR Martin | F | - | | - | Harry Potter | JK Rowling | F, YA | - | | - | Pebble in the Sky | Isaac Asimov | SF | - | | - | The Stars, Like Dust | Isaac Asimov | SF | - | | - | Nightfall | Isaac Asimov | SF | 🌟 | | - | Sharp Objects | Gillian Flynn | F | - | | - | The Inheritance Cycle | Christopher Paolini | F, YA | - | ## **Legend** **Personal Recommendations** 🌟Highly recommend 🧠Thought provoking **Category** **\[SF]** Science Fiction | **\[B]** Biography | **\[NF]** Non-Fiction | **\[F]** Fiction | **\[P]** Philosophy **\[M]** Management | **\[AB]** Autobiography | **\[YA]** Young Adult | **\[H]** Horror # Quotes I love quotes that are succinct and honest. Included below are some of my favorites. ## Stephen King *His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance.* - Salems Lot *Alone. Yes, thats the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym....* - Salems Lot ## Frank Herbert *Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you* *And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life — we went soft, we lost our edge.* *Hope clouds observation.* *It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.* *To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.* *Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.* *Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.* *And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation."* *Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.* *Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.* ## Vladamir Zworykin *One cannot stumble on an idea unless one is running.* ***Turing's Cathedral p. 67*** ## Alan Watts *I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.* # Research I like to stay current on research in fields that interest me. I typically browse communities that discuss academic topics, and dive into papers if I want to gain deeper knowledge on the subject. ### Sources * [Arxiv](http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/search?q=machine+learning) * [Google Scholar ](https://scholar.google.com/) ### Catalog | Topic | Year | Title | Author | Source | | ----------------------- | ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Neuroscience | 2015 | Using space and time to encode vibrotactile information | Eagleman | [Link](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00221-015-4346-1) | | Blockchain | 2014 | Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform | Buterin | [Link](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper#alternative-blockchain-applications) | | Blockchain | 2008 | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System | Satoshi Nakamoto | [Link](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf?) | | Machine Learning | 2014 | Generative Adversarial Networks | Goodfellow | [Link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661) | | Artificial Intelligence | 2017 | AI Principles | Future of Life Institute | [Link](https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/) | | Artificial Intelligence | 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and ‘Autonomous’ Systems | European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies | [Link](https://ec.europa.eu/research/ege/pdf/ege_ai_statement_2018.pdf) | | Artificial Intelligence | 2018 | The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation | Future of Humanity Institute | [Link](https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1802/1802.07228.pdf) | | Machine Learning | 2016 | Inherent Trade-offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores | Kleinberg | [Link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807) | | Physics | 2018 | A unifying theory of dark energy and dark matter | Farnes | [Link](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07962.pdf) | | Software Engineering | 2017 | Software Engineering @ Google | Henderson | [Link](https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf) | | Cryptography | 2018 | Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts | Oasis Labs | [Link](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05141.pdf) | | Distributed Systems | 2018 | DFINITY Technology Overview Series Consensus System | DFINITY | [Link](https://dfinity.org/static/dfinity-consensus-0325c35128c72b42df7dd30c22c41208.pdf) | | Technology | 2018 | Reinventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology | Khosla | [Link](https://medium.com/@vkhosla/reinventing-societal-infrastructure-with-technology-f71e0d4f2355) | | Neuroscience | 2018 | Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis | Multiple | [Link](https://web.stanford.edu/~shenoy/GroupPublications/NuyujukianEtAlPLoSOne2018.pdf) | | Machine Learning | 2017 | A Brief Survey of Reinforcement Learning | Arulkumaran; Brundage | [Link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05866v2) | # Curriculum Education shouldn't end when school does. This page documents the best resources in the world on various topics. I expect this resource to evolve over time, so pull requests are encouraged. | Topic | Anki Deck | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | [Mathematics](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#mathematics) | - | | [Computer Science](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#computer-science) | - | | [History](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#history) | - | | [Philosophy](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#philosophy) | - | | [Economics](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#economics) | [Link](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/554738065) | | [Biology](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#biology) | - | | [Chemistry](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#chemistry) | - | | [Physics](https://wiki.philmohun.com/curriculum#physics) | - | ## Mathematics ## Computer Science ## Philosophy ## Economics #### Blogs * [Marginal Revolution](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/category/economics) #### Online Education | Course | Description | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Marginal Revolution University](https://mru.org/) | Entertaining online courses taught by Economics professors at George Mason University. | | [Model Thinking](https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking) | A 12-week Coursera class taught by Scott Page that covers a different economic model each week. | ## Biology ## Chemistry ## Physics # North America # Miami, Florida # Atlanta, Georgia # Syracuse, New York ### Syracuse University ![](/files/-LexurCywX1xt1xO-s1M) # Los Angeles, California ## About ## Things to do If you can manage the traffic, Los Angeles is an incredible destination for adventure. In a single day you can hike through the canyons of Malibu, surf with the locals in Venice, and be back in time for dinner. ### Sightsee #### Griffith Observatory ![Photo by Annie on Unsplash](/files/-LdsMjVg19l0Tqn5LI6N) Point Vincente Lighthouse Hollywood Sign Walk of Fame ### Beaches Laguna Beach Matador Beach ### Hike Waterfall Hike (Eaton Canyon) ### Water Catalina Island Catamaran Scuba / Snorkeling ### Desert Palm Springs Coachella ### Sports Kings (Hockey) Lakers (Basketball) Rams (Football) Dodgers (Baseball) Scenic ### Music Greek Theater LA Live ### Art Broad LACMA ### Food DTLA Farmers Market Korean BBQ Sushi ### Shop 3rd Street Promenade The Grove Rodeo Drive Rose Bowl Flea Market Melrose Flea Market # New York, New York # Buffalo, New York ## About ## Things to do ### Sightsee #### Letchworth National Park ![Photo taken myself 2016](/files/-LdsNf2wNIq3-iYtRhpG) # South America # Quito, Ecuador # Europe # Madrid, Spain # Africa # Docker ### Docker Cheat Sheet ``` ## List Docker CLI commands docker docker container --help ## Display Docker version and info docker --version docker version docker info ## Execute Docker image docker run hello-world ## List Docker images docker image ls ## List Docker containers (running, all, all in quiet mode) docker container ls docker container ls --all docker container ls -aq ``` ### ### Links: {% embed url="" %} # Unix I'm constantly trying to improve my productivity and understanding of the MacOS through the Unix shell. This page documents helpful commands and resources I've found. Plus, you feel like a hacker. ## Links [Hackertools](https://hacker-tools.github.io/) - [HackerNews Discussions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19078281) # Jupyter ## Useful Commands ``` !which python; python -V # check python version ``` ## Common Issues & Troubleshooting ### ModuleNotFoundError ![](/files/-LdsV0oAS4OKSBBkCNMz) Jupyter Notebook tends to create path issues that disagree with the python path run locally. To fix this, I use the following troubleshooting methods: #### Kernel.json In the terminal: ``` # check Jupyter path $ which -a jupyter /usr/local/bin/jupyter # sample output # check default python path $ which -a python /usr/bin/python # check python3 path $ which -a python3 /usr/local/bin/python3 ``` If there is disagreement between the paths (as shown above), you can redirect the Jupyter kernel to point at the desired directory. ``` # identify where Jupyter stores kernel information $ jupyter kernselspec list Available kernels: python3 /usr/local/share/jupyter/kernels/python3 ``` Navigate to the `/kernels` directory and locate `kernel.json` Inside: ``` { "argv": ["python3", "-m", "IPython.kernel", "-f", "{connection_file}"], "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python" } ``` Where it lists "python3" change it to your python path where the libraries are being installed. For example: ``` { "argv": [ "/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7", "-m", "ipykernel_launcher", "-f", "{connection_file}" ], "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python" } ``` The python3 kernel should now be pointing at the correct directory. #### iPython Kernel Install Navigate to the repository where the notebook files live and follow the recommendation in [this issue from the Jupyter Github.](https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/2563) > `ipython kernel install` Check `kernel.json` to confirm that the path has been updated and that the path matches. To confirm that your Jupyter notebook is running the same version of python: In Jupyter notebook: ``` import sys sys.executable '/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7' # this is from kernel.json ``` In the terminal: ``` $ python3 import sys sys.executable '/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7' '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3' ``` Oops! If they don't match, then use the executable path from your locally installed python version to update `kernel.json` Restart the notebook to see results. #### Uninstall Jupyter If none of the above methods worked, try uninstalling Jupyter. ``` pip uninstall jupyter pip install jupyter ``` # Cloud # Google Cloud Platform ### Containers This walkthrough demonstrates how to upload a Docker container to Google Container Registry. Some helpful guides: * [Google Container Registry Documentation](https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/) **Ensure the Docker image on your local device is up to date** ``` docker build -t . gcloud auth configure-docker ## use GCP credentials [HOSTNAME]/[PROJECT-ID]/[IMAGE] ## hostname = us.gcr.io docker tag [SOURCE_IMAGE] [HOSTNAME]/[PROJECT-ID]/[IMAGE] docker push [HOSTNAME]/[PROJECT-ID]/[IMAGE] ``` # Programming Languages ### Links * [Free PDF Books on Popular Languages from Stack Overflow](https://books.goalkicker.com/) # Nutrition # Fitness # Mind # Start here! Welcome to my wiki. This is a compilation of everything that I know. ## What is this? I spend a lot of time online. This wiki is a way for me to catalog the things that I find as well as organize my notes and writings. ## How does it work? All of the information is hosted on my [Github](https://github.com/pmohun/knowledge) and written in Markdown. Content is organized into topics and contains raw notes, links to projects, and references. Although the wiki is mostly for personal use, I try to write in a way that makes it accessible for anyone. ## How do I use it? Feel free to start with the sidebar and poke around for topics you find interesting. You can also use the search bar for keywords. ## Get in touch. You can provide comments by editing this repository [on Github](https://github.com/pmohun/knowledge/pulls). If you want to reach out directly, you can reach me at philmohun (at) gmail.com I also write blogs [on Medium](https://medium.com/@philmohun/latest), post short stories [on my website](https://philmohun.com), publish a [weekly newsletter](https://philmohun.substack.com), and think aloud [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/philmohun). # Bookshelf This space is used to catalog books that I currently own. The legend helps to highlight books that stood out. I keep track of my age when I read books, since books affect me differently at times. ## Catalog Wishlist:
TitleAuthorCategoryLegendAge
100 Years of SolitudeGabriel García MárquezF
Selected PoemsT.S. EliotNF
Empire of AIKaren HaoNF
The Screwtape LettersC.S. LewisF
The War of ArtSteven PressfieldNF
After DarkHaruki MurakamiF
Kafka on the ShoreHaruki MurakamiF
The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki MurakamiF
Norwegian WoodHaruki MurakamiF
Dance Dance DanceHaruki MurakamiF
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldHaruki MurakamiF
A Wild Sheep ChaseHaruki MurakamiF
Unreasonable HospitalityWill GuidaraNF
Double Your ProfitsRobert FiferNF
Rich Dad Poor DadRobert KiyosakiNF
Picasso's WarHugh EakinNF
The Eyes of the SkinJuhani PallasmaaNF
Ways of SeeingJohn BergerNF
Theories and Documents of Contemporary ArtMiscNF
Becoming Steve JobsBrent SchlenderB
How Countries Go BrokeRay DalioNF
The Revolt of the PublicMartin GurriNF
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of ThingsGeorge KublerNF-31
The Armor of LightKen FollettF-30
The Pillars of the EarthKen FollettF-30
Tender is the FleshAgustina BazterricaF-30
Bird by BirdAnne LamottNF-30
Design as ArtBruno MunariNF-30
The Power of MythJoseph CampbellNF-30
BoomByrne HobartNF-30
The Mom TestRob FitzpatrickNF-30
The PrizeDaniel YerginNF⭐30
Only the Paranoid SurviveAndy GroveNF⭐30
Nuclear WarAnne JacobsenNF-30
Several Short Sentences About WritingVerlyn KlinkenborgNF-30
BoomMichael ShnayersonNF-30
Token SupremacyZachary SmallNF-30
Good Strategy, Bad StrategyRichard RumeltNF⭐29
Daily Rituals: How Artists WorkMason CurreyB-29
Red Rising (Series)Pierce BrownSF-29
A Philosophy of Software DesignJohn OusterhoutNF-29
The Martian WayIsaac AsimovSF-29
Radical MarketsEric PosnerNF-29
Monetizing InnovationMadhavan RamanujamM-29
The ManiacBenjamin LabatutB-29
Legal Systems Very Different From OursDavid FreemanNF-29
A Pattern LanguageChristopher AlexanderNF⭐️29
Poor Charlie's AlmanackCharlie MungerM⭐️29
The Story of PhilosophyWill DurantP⭐️29
Grid Systems in Graphic DesignJosef Müller-BrockmannNF-29
Braiding SweetgrassRobin Wall KimmererNF-29
As a Man ThinkethJames AllenNF-29
Scaling PeopleClaire Hughes JohnsonM-29
The FundRob CopelandNF-29
The PlagueAlbert CamusF-29
Sirens of TitanKurt VonnegutF-29
Savage JourneyPeter RichardsonB-29
Godel, Escher, BachDouglas HofstadterNF-29
Land and SeaCarl SchmittNF-29
The Concept of the PoliticalCarl SchmittNF-29
The Timeless Way of BuildingChristopher AlexanderNF⭐️29
Slouching Towards BethlehemJoan DidionNF-29
The Sovereign IndividualJames Dale DavidsonNF-29
Elon MuskWalter IsaacsonB-29
From Third World to FirstLee Kuan YewAB-29
The Tao of PhysicsFritjof CapraNF⭐️29
Cinema SpeculationQuentin TarantinoAB-28
The Rise of EndymionDan SimmonsF-28
EndymionDan SimmonsF-28
Essays In IdlenessYoshida KenkōNF-28
On The RoadJack KerouacAB-28
The ContrarianMax ChafkinB-28
In PatagoniaBruce ChatwinNF-28
Meaning in HistoryKarl LowithNF-28
Democracy In AmericaAlexis de TocquevilleNF-28
Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The WorldRene GirardP-28
BuildTony FadellAB-28
Death's EndLiu CixinF-28
The Decadent SocietyRoss DouthatNF-28
Total RecallArnold SchwarzeneggerAB-28
The Man From the Future (Von Neumann)Ananyo BhattacharyaB-28
Infinite JestDavid Foster WallaceNF-28
The Making of the Atomic BombRichard RhodesNF-28
American PrometheusKai Bird and Martin J. SherwinB-28
WaldenHenry David ThoreauNF-28
How The Internet HappenedBrian McCulloughNF-28
Adventures of a Young NaturalistDavid AttenboroughNF-28
The Diversity MythPeter ThielNF-28
The Obstacle is the WayRyan HolidayNF-28
The Bed of ProcrustesNassim Nicolas TalebNF-28
1776David McCulloughNF-28
The FoundersJimmy SoniNF-28
AutobiographyJohn Stuart MillAB-27
Pieces of the ActionVannevar BushAB-27
The Design of Everyday ThingsDon NormanNF-27
An Elegant PuzzleWill LarsonNF-27
TalentTyler CowenNF-27
The Dream MachineM. Mitchell WaldropNF-27
All Things Are PossibleLev ShestovNF-27
ConspiracyRyan HolidayNF-
How To Actually Change Your MindEliezer YudkowskyNF-27
The Gospels: A New TranslationSarah RudenNF-27
The World of YesterdayStefan ZweigAB-27
High Growth HandbookElad GilNF⭐️27
The Big ScoreMichael S. MaloneNF-27
Infamous ScribblersEric BurnsNF-27
The CraftJohn DickieNF-27
Princples for Dealing with the Changing World OrderRay DalioNF-27
Albion's SeedDavid Hackett FischerNF-27
When Money DiesAdam FergussonNF-27
A Short History Of Nearly EverythingBill BrysonNF-27
Essays After EightyDonald HallNF-27
Revolution in the ValleyAndy HertzfeldNF-27
The Mind Body ProblemRebecca GoldsteinF-27
How Asia WorksJoe StudwellNF-27
GreenlightsMatthew McConaugheyNF-27
The DispossessedUrsula K. Le GuinF-27
Skunk WorksBen RichM⭐️27
The Score Takes Care of ItselfBill WalshM-27
Invent & WanderJeff BezosM-27
Animal FarmGeorge OrwellF-27
Einstein's DreamsAlan LightmanNF-27
Where the Crawdads SingDelia OwensF-26
The Big ShortMichael LewisNF-26
The Making of KaratekaJordan MechnerNF-25,26
A Swim In A Pond In The RainGeorge SaundersNF-26
Basic Writings of NietzscheFriedrich NietzscheP-26
Finite and Infinite GamesJames P. CarseP-26
Guns, Germs, and SteelJared DiamondNF-26
The Code BreakerWalter IsaacsonNF-26
A World Without EmailCal NewportNF-26
Skin In The GameNassim TalebNF-26
The New New ThingMichael LewisNF-26
The Black SwanNassim TalebNF-26
The Fifth Season (Trilogy)N. K. JemisinF-26
A Brief History of TimeStephen HawkingNF🧠26
KissingerWalter IssacsonNF-26
ExhalationTed ChiangF-26
Seeing Like A StateJames C. ScottNF-26
RangeDavid EpsteinNF-26
Rome, Inc. Stanley BingNF-26
Selected Essays of E.B. WhiteE.B. WhiteNF-26
Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich NietzscheNF-26
Stubborn AttachmentsTyler CowenNF-26
American SketchesWalter IsaacsonB-26
AntifragileNassim TalebNF🌟26
LoonshotsSafi BahcallNF-26
InnovatorsWalter IsaacsonNF-26
Working in PublicNadia EghbalNF-26
Marching PowderThomas McFaddenNF-26
LilaRobert PirsigNF-26
On Writing WellWilliam ZinsserNF-25
Chaos MonkeysAntonio García MartínezNF-26
Mankind in AmnesiaImmanuel VelikovskyNF-26
The Lives of The ArtistsGiorgio VassariNF-26
The Four Hour Work WeekTim FerrissNF-25
The Art of Doing Science and EngineeringRichard HammingNF🧠25
Liar's PokerMichael LewisNF-25
The Making of Prince of PersiaJordan MechnerNF🌟25
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceRobert PirsigNF🧠25, 26
Model ThinkerScott PageNF-25
Me Talk Pretty One DayDavid SedarisNF-25
Atlas ShruggedAyn RandF-25
The FountainheadAyn RandF🌟25
On The Shortness Of LifeSenecaNF🌟24
Leonardo Da VinciWalter IsaacsonB-25
The Book of DisquietFernando PessoaAB🌟25, 26
Fall of HyperionDan SimmonsSF-20,25
Moby Dick or, The WhaleHerman MelvilleF-25
Albert Einstein: His Life and UniverseWater IsaacsonB-25
Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeWalter IsaacsonB-25
How To Read A BookMortimer AdlerNF-25
Managing YourselfClayton M. ChristensenNF-25
Thinking, Fast & SlowDaniel KahnemanNF-25
SeasteadingJoe QuirkNF-25
PrinciplesRay DalioNF🌟25, 27
What You Do Is Who You AreBen HorowitzNF-25
High Output ManagementAndy GroveNF-25, 27
The StandStephen KingF-25
On WritingStephen KingAB🌟25
Barbarian Days: A Surfing LifeWilliam FinneganAB🌟25
Cat's CradleKurt VonnegutF-25
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of MicrosoftJames WallaceB-25
Hackers and PaintersPaul GrahamNF🌟25
ContactCarl SaganSF🧠16,25
Wise Man's FearPatrick RothfussF🌟25
The Name Of The WindPatrick RothfussF🌟25
Slaughterhouse FiveKurt VonnegutF-25
SlapstickKurt VonnegutSF-25
The Secret of ApolloStephen JohnsonNF-25
What Do You Care What Other People Think?Richard FenymanAB-24
Bitcoin BillionairesBen MezrichNF-24
Bad BloodJohn CarreyrouNF-24
The Dark ForestCixin LiuSF-24
The MezzanineNicholson BakerNF♥️24
Catch-22Joseph HellerF-16,24
Art of WarSun TzuP-24
Flowers for AlgernonDaniel KeyesF-16,24
Ender's GameOrson Scott CardSF-24
Turing's CathedralGeorge DysonNF🧠24
The Everything StoreBrad StoneB-24
Surely You're Joking, Mr. FenymanRichard FenymanB🌟24
Zero to OnePeter ThielM-24,26,27
Shoe DogPhil KnightAB🌟24,28
Steve JobsWalter IsaacsonB-24
Become What You AreAlan WattsP-24
Can't Hurt MeDavid GogginsAB-24
FactfulnessHans RoslingNF🧠24
BecomingMichelle ObamaB-24
Sapiens: A Brief History of Human KindYuval Noah HarariNF🧠24
The Collapsing EmpireJohn ScalziSF-24
The Last LectureRandy PauschAB-24
The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen HorowitzM🌟24
Machine LearningHugh HoweySF-23
Stories of Your Life and OthersTed ChiangSF-23
The Three Body ProblemCixin LiuSF-23
Hyperion CantosDan SimmonsSF🌟20,23
Elon MuskAshlee VanceB-23,25
Saturn RunJohn SandfordSF-23,24
Trilogy War StoriesKen FollettF-23
Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas AdamsF🌟23
YeagerChuck YeagerAB-23
The Dark Tower SeriesStephen KingF, H-23
Salem's LotStephen KingH-23
Brave New WorldAldous HuxleyF-22
American PsychoBret Easton EllisF-21
Fahreinheit 451Ray BradburyF-16,24
1984George OrwellF-16,23
Do Android's Dream of Electric SheepPhillip DickSF-18
Foundation SeriesIsaac AsimovSF🌟19,20,21,22,23,24,25
Robot SeriesIsaac AsimovSF-19
DuneFrank HerbertSF🌟20,21,22,23,24,25
His Dark Materials SeriesPhilip PullmanF, YA🌟13
Artemis Fowl SeriesEoin ColferF, YA-13
The Keys to the Kingdom SeriesGarth NixF, YA-14
The Great Tree of AvalonTA BarronF, YA-14
The Hunger GamesSuzanne CollinsF, YA-
The Heir ChroniclesCinda W. ChimaF, YA-
The Merlin SagaTA BarronF, YA-
Dragonlance SeriesWeis & HickmanF, YA-
Pendragon SeriesDJ MacHaleF, YA-
Bartimaeus TrilogyJonathan StroudF, YA-
The Chronicles of NarniaCS LewisF, YA🌟
The Merlin ConspiracyDiana W. JonesF, YA-
The Lord of the RingsJRR TolkeinF-
A Song Of Ice And FireGeorge RR MartinF-
Harry PotterJK RowlingF, YA-
Pebble in the SkyIsaac AsimovSF-
The Stars, Like DustIsaac AsimovSF-
NightfallIsaac AsimovSF🌟
Sharp ObjectsGillian FlynnF-
The Inheritance CycleChristopher PaoliniF, YA-
## **Legend** **Personal Recommendations** 🌟Highly recommend 🧠Thought-provoking ♥️ Unique Hyperlinks link to book reviews or summaries. **Category** **\[SF]** Science Fiction | **\[B]** Biography | **\[NF]** Non-Fiction | **\[F]** Fiction | **\[P]** Philosophy **\[M]** Management | **\[AB]** Autobiography | **\[YA]** Young Adult | **\[H]** Horror \*I started this list in 2019, so there are plenty of omissions prior to that. I've included most of favorites. # Quotes I love quotes that are succinct and honest. Included below are some of my favorites. ## Marcus Aurelius *If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgement now.* *We don't get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it. And why on earth would you choose to feel anything but good?* ## Benjamin Franklin *Great affairs sometimes take their rise from small circumstances.* ## Seneca *It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.* *What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.* *We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.* ## Stephen King *His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance.* *Alone. Yes, thats the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.* ## Frank Herbert *Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you* *And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life — we went soft, we lost our edge.* *Hope clouds observation.* *It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.* *To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.* *Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.* *Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.* *And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation."* *Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.* *Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.* ## Vladamir Zworykin *One cannot stumble on an idea unless one is running.* ## Alan Watts *I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.* ## Kurt Vonnegut *Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments of his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones -- to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by.* ## William Shakespeare *There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.* ## Fernando Pessoa *“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”* *In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than randon, I differently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it's because I have nothing to say.* *Could it think, the heart would stop beating."* *I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.* *Literature – which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality – seems to me the end towards which all human effort would have to strive, if it were truly human and not just a welling up of our animal self. To express something is to conserve its virtue and take away its terror. Fields are greener in their description than in their actual greenness. Flowers, if described with phrases that define them in the air of the imagination, will have colours with a durability not found in cellular life.* *Whenever I see a dead body, death seems to me a departure. The corpse looks to me like a suit that was left behind. Someone went away and didn't need to take the one and only outfit he'd worn.* *Every dream is the same dream, for they're all dreams.* *I weep over my imperfect pages, but if future generations read them, they will be more touched by my weeping than by any perfection I might have achieved, since perfection would have kept me from weeping and, therefore, from writing.* *The saint weeps, and is human. God is silent. That is why we can love the saint but cannot love God.* *A sunset is an intellectual phenomenon.* *There's a thin sheet of glass between me and life. However clearly I see and understand life, I can't touch it.* *One day, I don’t know which, I found myself in this world, having lived unfeelingly from the time I was evidently born until then. When I asked where I was, everyone misled me, and they contradicted each other. When I asked them to tell me what I should do, they all spoke falsely, and each one said something different. When in bewilderment I stopped on the road, everyone was shocked that I didn’t keep going to no one knew where, or else turn back – I, who’d woken up at the crossroads and didn’t know where I’d come from. I saw that I was on stage and didn’t know the part that everyone else recited straight off, also without knowing it. I saw that I was dressed as a page, but they didn’t give me a queen, and blamed me for not having her. I saw that I had a message in my hand to deliver, and when I told them that the sheet of paper was blank, they laughed at me. And I still don’t know if they laughed because all sheets are blank, or because all messages are to be guessed. Finally I sat down on the rock at the crossroads as before the fireplace I never had. And I began, all by myself, to make paper boats with the lie they’d given me. No one would believe in me, not even as a liar, and there was no pond where I could try out my truth.* # Research I like to stay current on research in fields that interest me. I typically browse communities that discuss academic topics, and dive into papers if I want to gain deeper knowledge on the subject. *Please note: most of my research has been moved to Roam Research. I'm leaving this page up for reference, but it is no longer being actively updated.* ### Sources * [Arxiv](http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/search?q=machine+learning) * [Google Scholar ](https://scholar.google.com/) ### Catalog | Topic | Year | Title | Author | Source | | ----------------------- | ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Cryptography | 1976 | New Directions In Cryptography | Diffie & Hellman | [Link](https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf) | | Synthetic Biology | 2019 | Technological challenges and milestones for writing genomes | Nili Ostrov | [Link](http://arep.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Ostrov_GPW_2019.pdf) | | Oceanic Engineering | 2011 | Establishing offshore autonomous communities: current choices and their proposed evolution | D. Miguel Lamas Pardo | [Link](http://seasteadingorg.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Miguel-Lamas-Establishment-of-Autonomous-Ocean-Communities-English.pdf) | | Neuroscience | 2015 | Using space and time to encode vibrotactile information | Eagleman | [Link](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00221-015-4346-1) | | Blockchain | 2014 | Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform | Buterin | [Link](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper#alternative-blockchain-applications) | | Blockchain | 2008 | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System | Satoshi Nakamoto | [Link](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf?) | | Machine Learning | 2014 | Generative Adversarial Networks | Goodfellow | [Link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661) | | Artificial Intelligence | 2017 | AI Principles | Future of Life Institute | [Link](https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/) | | Artificial Intelligence | 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and ‘Autonomous’ Systems | European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies | [Link](https://ec.europa.eu/research/ege/pdf/ege_ai_statement_2018.pdf) | | Artificial Intelligence | 2018 | The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation | Future of Humanity Institute | [Link](https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1802/1802.07228.pdf) | | Machine Learning | 2016 | Inherent Trade-offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores | Kleinberg | [Link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807) | | Physics | 2018 | A unifying theory of dark energy and dark matter | Farnes | [Link](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07962.pdf) | | Software Engineering | 2017 | Software Engineering @ Google | Henderson | [Link](https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf) | | Cryptography | 2018 | Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts | Oasis Labs | [Link](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05141.pdf) | | Distributed Systems | 2018 | DFINITY Technology Overview Series Consensus System | DFINITY | [Link](https://dfinity.org/static/dfinity-consensus-0325c35128c72b42df7dd30c22c41208.pdf) | | Technology | 2018 | Reinventing Societal Infrastructure with Technology | Khosla | [Link](https://medium.com/@vkhosla/reinventing-societal-infrastructure-with-technology-f71e0d4f2355) | | Neuroscience | 2018 | Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis | Multiple | [Link](https://web.stanford.edu/~shenoy/GroupPublications/NuyujukianEtAlPLoSOne2018.pdf) | | Machine Learning | 2017 | A Brief Survey of Reinforcement Learning | Arulkumaran; Brundage | [Link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05866v2) |