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Kafka [1] on which types of book to read: "I believe one should only read those books which bite and sting. If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, …

I suppose it's quite off-topic, but some weeks ago I read a small book by Mary Gaitskill, the writer of the piece. It's called "Lost Cat". I highly recommend it. Ironically, it mig…

For anyone diving into Ulysses, I highly recommend checking out The Joyce Project [1]. It's filled with interactive notes that are very useful for understanding the linguistic and …

Incidentally, if you’re looking to start reading in French, there is hardly a better book in terms of (impact on literature) times (simple, accessible writing) [2]. It’s also a sho…

Opportunity costs. The real debate has been whether it makes sense for string theory (whatever the prevailing definition is) to dominate funding for theoretical research of the "br…

Simpson’s paradox should be taken into account. If you group the population into only 2 groups: all of the vaccinated and all the unvaccinated, regardless of age; then the vaccinat…

Alain Connes, Fields medalist, talks about going on walks while reading math books in a particular way (and on how a mathematician works and should read a book) [0]: "To understand…

In case you're interested in learning about graph deep learning, and are familiar with standard DL, I strongly recommend these two very good, recent books (freely available): [1] G…

The new edition has been split in two parts. The pdf draft (921 pages) and python code [1] of the first part are now available. The table of contents of the second part is here [2]…

He has shared part of his toolkit, namely the exporting and syncing of the Bear notes, and “link-janitor” for the backlinks [1]. Although I wouldn’t recommend it in general - it’s …

Right now, Andy is perhaps the most sophisticated thinker in this space sharing his insights and prototypes (meta-knowledge work, backlinked evergreen notes, spaced repetition, new…

I like these two quotes of Knuth where he lets us know how hard he worked. -- From this small interview [1]: "When I'm working on a research problem I generally begin by filling do…

Here's Alain Connes, Fields medalist, on how a mathematician works and should read a book [0]: "To understand any subject, above all, a mathematician SHOULD NOT pick up a book and …

Don't forget Gaius Diocles, the roman charioteer [1]: "His winnings reportedly totaled 35,863,120 sesterces, allegedly, over $15 billion in today’s dollars, an amount which could p…

If you are interested in learning about GAN, checkout GANLab, by Google Brain and others: https://poloclub.github.io/ganlab/ It's similar to tensorflow playground, but for GAN: htt…