8 New books I want to read
Also would be open to having their authors send me an advanced copy for "review"......hint, hint
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In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. -Charlie Munger
Now for the Goods
I look forward to new books from authors I admire like I look forward to a big movie premiere.
I’m looking for a good book on the upcoming agentic AI push/boom/apocalypse. Suppose still too early for that, but agents are on the horizon- summer ‘24?
In the meantime, here are some books I’m looking forward to reading:
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, Ethan Mollick
Mollick is one of the most interesting follows for anything AI.
Machine Learning Q and AI: 30 Essential Questions and Answers on Machine Learning and AI, Sebastian Raschka
Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch), Sebastian Raschka
2 books by Sebastian Raschka. I will basically read anything he writes. One of the best explainers of complicated things. Right up there with Karpathy. He wrote one of my favorites and helped me a lot so I owe him a karmic debt to buy whatever he puts out:
Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn: Develop machine learning and deep learning models with Python, Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom. The “Paperclip Maximizer” himself. Wrote another one of my favorites:
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI, Ray Kurzweil
I’ve enjoyed his books. He has been talking and writing about this substrate of AI for years. Will read this one too.
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing), Salman Khan
What Sal Khan did with Khan Academy is amazing. Looking forward to this.
I read everything that Chip Huyen writes.
Her book on ML systems is on my AI and ML Reading List: My Favorites
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications 1st Edition, Chip Huyen
AI Engineering, is in the early stages, available on O’Reilly early access.
The Trading Game: A Confession , Gary Stevenson
Don’t know anything about this other than I like reading people’s trading (his)stories. Some other trading stories I’ve enjoyed:
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street, Michael Lewis
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It, Scott Patterson
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market, Ed Thorp
The Salmon Capital of Michigan: The Rise and Fall of a Great Lakes Fishery , Carson Prichard
Looks interesting.
and….my list of my favorite AI/ML books. Ta daaaa!:
AI and ML Reading List: My Favorites
Anywho… send along what you are reading or looking forward to reading.