My Favorite Books of 2023
Because exactly no one asked for this list
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I like to read. With around 2 weeks left to go in the year, here are my favorites from among the books I read in 2023, in no particular order:
Fiction:
All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Crosby
Whalefall, Daniel Kraus
The Amateur, Robert Littell
The Mysteries, Bill Watterson and John Kascht
Non-fiction:
Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What To Do About Them, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Hyrum Anderson, et al.
Rogues, Patrick Radden Keefe
Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, John Vaillant
Designing Machine Learning Systems, Chip Huyen
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks, Scott Shapiro
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann, Ananyo Bhattacharya
Number go Up, Zeke Faux
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness, Morgan Housel
The Last Action Heroes, Nick De Semlyen
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality, Per Bak
The Almanak of Navikant, Eric Jorgenson
Be Useful, Arnold Schwarzenegger