Books
Math & Computer Science
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Bishop)
- Deep Learning (Goodfellow et al.)
- Outlier Analysis (Aggarwal)
- Linear Algebra and Optimization for Machine Learning (Aggarwal)
- Mathematics for Machine Learning (Deisenroth)
Popular Science
- The Egoistic Gene (Dawkins)
- A Brief History of Time (Hawkins)
- Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Bergstrom)
- Human Compatible (Russel)
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Gardner)
- Superintelligence (Bostrom)
- The Book of Why (Pearl)
- The Black Swan (Taleb)
- Antifragile (Taleb)
- The Alignment Problem (Christian)
- The Singularity is Near (Kurzweil)
- Algorithms to Live By (Christian)
Philosophy
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
- On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (Nietzsche)
- Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche)
- The Republic (Plato)
- Our Mathematical Universe (Tegmark)
- Bhagavad Gita (German Reclam Version)
- Siddhartha (Hesse)
- Enchiridion (Epictetus)
- Meditations (Aurelius)
- Parerga and Paralipomena (Schopenhauer)
- The Art of Being Right (Schopenhauer)
Philosophy of Science
- Against Method (Feierabend)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn)
- Conjectures and Refutation (Popper)
- Lost in Math (Hossenfelder)
- Existential Physics (Hossenfelder)
Politics
- The Prince (Machiavelli)
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Thaler)
- The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol. 1 (Popper)
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (Lanier)
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Harari)
Economy
- Bullshit Jobs (Graeber)
- The Big Short (Lewis)
- Inadequate Equilibria (Yudkowsky)
Psychology
- Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
History
- Sapiens (Harari)
- Homo Deus (Harari)
- Life 3.0 (Tegmark)
Self Help
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)
- Getting Things Done (Allen)
- Atomic Habits (Clear)
- The Power of Habit (Duhigg)
Biographies
- Permanent Record (Snowden)
- Steve Jobs (Isaacson)
- Elon Musk (Vance)
Fiction
- Crime and Punishment (Dostojewski)
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Yudkowsky)
- Animal Farm (Orwell)
- 1984 (Orwell)
- Fahrenheit 451 (Bradburry)
- Brave New World (Huxley)
- The Schopenhauer Cure (Yalom)
- And Nietzsche Wept (Yalom)
- The Alchemist (Coelho)
- Requiem for a Dream (Selby)
- Hamlet (Shakespeare)
- The Swarm (Schaetzig)
- The Grand Grimoire (?)
Essays, Blogs, et cetera
Some of the blogs that I read frequently:
- Slatestar Codex, Astral Codex: Scott Alexander is a psychologist and writes pretty amazing posts. Check it out.
- Meditations on Moloch: Why we cant have nice things
- Gwern
- The Algernon Argument: Why increasing human intelligence is difficult
- Fefes Blog: German blog from a security guy about all kinds of things
- Meltingasphalt: Evolutionary Psychology. Even though I am somewhat septical about the validity of evolutionary psychology, probably due to my exposure to Taleb, I think it is an interesting perspective
- Ecological Thinking: systems have niches, and it is more helpful to think about behavior in terms of properties of a system instead of behavior of actors
- Less Wrong: A website (afaik founded by Yudkowsky) that aims to improve decision making, where anyone can submit posts
- The Goddess of Everything Else: A post by Scott Alexander that I personally enjoyed, there is also a pretty good youtube animation available here
Software
Here are my dotfiles.
- OS: Arch Linux1, a highly configurable linux distribution
- Desktop Environment:
- XFCE, a fast and leightweight DE
- i3 gaps, a tiling window manager
- Shell: zsh, a nice shell with lots of available plugins
- Browser: Firefox
- Text editor: NeoVim
- IDE: IntelliJ/PyCharm, VSCode
- Password Manager: KeePassXC with a YubiKey
- Notes: MediaWiki
- Hypervisor: Proxmox
- RSS-Reader: FreshRSS
- Video Editing: Kdenlive
- Image Editing: GIMP
- Note Taking: MediaWiki
- Wallabag
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I use arch btw ↩︎