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There's a recent freakonomics episode that talks about this question (13:18) https://freakonomics.com/podcast/can-you-learn-to-love-hard-... The host Stephen Dubner sites a piece i…

I think a lot of people look at the world and think that the people that designed it were executing a well laid out plan, or before they executed anything they had to have deep und…

By far the best explanation of eigenvalues is found on 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDu9oVAE-g&list=PLZHQObOWTQ... Seriously, the course on the essence of linear a…

I think the better heuristic for the state of the job market is job openings rather than headlines. There are still thousands of job openings you can find on LinkedIn. News outlets…

Lot of great suggestions already on here, but the top of my list so far for 2022 is Chaos by James Gleick, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, and Algorithms to Live By.