The Shelf

Books and lecture series, reviewed

Status of This Document

An index, revised whenever a review is added. No entries are published yet. Each will be a short note in the manner of the series: what the thing is, why it was picked up, what it changed, and an honest verdict. The shelf is not only print; lecture series and technical playlists get the same treatment, because a forty-hour playlist is a larger commitment than most books.

Currently on the shelf, awaiting annotation: Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville, Deep Learning; Bryant and O'Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective; Cormen et al., Introduction to Algorithms. Away from the desk: Harari, Sapiens; Frankopan, The Silk Roads; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the series:

/researchtwo published notes, and the model that failed

/notesthe complete series in the order it was written

/cvthe record, kept current, also as a PDF

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