Reading

The following is a sample of readings that have made a mark on my intellectual journey. I hope you find something in this list that resonates.

Research

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming

Math/Computer Science

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos — Steven Strogatz
• The Annotated Turing — Charles Petzold
• An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications — Ming Li and Paul Vitanyi
• Illustrated Theory of Numbers — Martin Weissman
• Causal Architecture, Complexity, and Self-Organization in Time Series and Cellular Automata (paper) — Cosma Shalizi

Neuroscience and Biology

• Evolving Brains — John Allman
• Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias (paper) — John Krakauer, et al.
• Principles of Neural Design — Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin
• Principles of Neural Information Theory — James Stone
• Convergence, Adaptation, and Constraint (paper) — Jonathan Losos

Computer Engineering

• A Brief and Biased History of Computer Architecture (article) — Cliff Young
• C is Not a Low-Level Language (article) — David Chisnall
• CPU, Heal Thyself (article) — Shidhartha Das and David Blaauw

Philosophy of Mind/Computation

• The Kekule Problem (article) — Cormac McCarthy
• When Does a Physical System Compute? (paper) — Clare Horsman, et al.

Other

• In Search of a Better World — Payam Akhavan
• Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction — David Foster Wallace
• Race After Technology — Ruha Benjamin
• Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection — Robert Johnson
• Exhalations — Ted Chiang