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In a nutshell: it goes through the myriad of ways that exercise is good for your brain, and the author does it in a way that is easy to grok and even easier to implement in your own life.
To me it really drove home that I need to continue exercising for years to come and thanks to this book I'll be driving the concept home for people I care about as well.
> When they launched, Prometheus was slightly worse than them at programming AI systems, but made up for this by being vastly faster, spending the equivalent of thousands of person-years chugging away at the problem while they chugged a Red Bull. By 10 a.m., it had completed the first redesign of itself, v2.0, which was slightly better but still subhuman. By the time Prometheus 5.0 launched at 2 p.m., however, the Omegas were awestruck: it had blown their performance benchmarks out of the water, and the rate of progress seemed to be accelerating. By nightfall, they decided to deploy Prometheus 10.0 to start phase 2 of their plan: making money.
The Undoing Project, Micheal Lewis. The story behind "Thinking Fast and Slow" but much easier to read.
1. A brief history of humankind: This opens your mind to the possibility that maybe our society is not as good as you think. What if the foundation that our society is built on is wrong?
2. A guide to the good life: Perhaps your pursuit of success, comforts, and convenience is grounded on the wrong foundation. And as a result, a false sense of happiness.
Then you might realize that core of your happiness starts with the people you love most (parents, kids, childhood friends, etc). From there, you can treasure friends (or coworkers or whatever) who support and appreciate your priorities and keep these people close to heart.
I always think that learning probability can not only help you to gain more intuition when dealing with scientific relative subjects but also empower you to think the daily life things in a different way. I recommend Introduction of probability [1] since it's easy to study and provides great free video lectures [2]. [1] - https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Dimitri-P-Be... [2] - https://ocw.mit.edu/resour…
It's not a breezy quick read, but my favourite sci-fi is always likely to be Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
Entertaining classic; Gibson: Virtual Light, Idoru
Thinking ahead; Marshall Brain: The Second Intelligent Species
Smart reply became reality but luckily it did not turn into SkyNet; W. Hertling: Avogadro Corp.
Startup advice; Fitzpatrick: The Mom Test
About "value"; Priceonomics: Everything is Bullshit
Entertaining; Ramez Naam: Nexus
I always think that learning probability can not only help you to gain more intuition when dealing with scientific relative subjects but also empower you to think the daily life things in a different way. I recommend Introduction of probability [1] since it's easy to study and provides great free video lectures [2]. [1] - https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Dimitri-P-Be... [2] - https://ocw.mit.edu/resour…
yeah, statistics rocks! One area which I am fascinated about is Bayesian methods and here is the excellent book https://gumroad.com/l/empirical-bayes
I have a very rough idea about it and i wanted to learn more. Is this book based out on Baseball statistics any good when i don't know anything about baseball?