Andrej Karpathy
YouTuber, Blogger, Influencer :D. Previously Director of AI at Tesla, OpenAI, CS231n, PhD @ Stanford. I like to train large deep neural nets 🧠🤖💥
7 Book Recommendations by Andrej Karpathy
Animal Eyes (Oxford Animal Biology Series)
Michael F. Land
Offers an introductory, but comprehensive, account of all known types of eye, in a book whose size and style made it accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as established researchers in the field. This edition is updated throughout to include developments made within the last 10 years, whilst retaining the structure and scope that has made it so popular.(randomly triggered while reading Animal Eyes, which is quite excellent https://t.co/Cq4Hrc1tl7)
The Vital Question
Nick Lane
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of life's quirks, Lane's explanation provides a solution to life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all? This is ground-breaking science in an accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.Nick Lane's books are So. Good. https://t.co/zyw0GYpmdu
Nine Pints
Rose George
An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit deadly infections. Each one of us has roughly nine pints of it, yet many don’t even know their own blood type. And for all its ubiquitousness, the few tablespoons of blood discharged by 800 million women are still regarded as taboo: menstruation is perhaps the single most demonized biological event. Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, is renowned for her intrepid work on topics that are invisible but vitally important. In Nine Pints, she takes us from ancient practices of bloodletting to the breakthough of the "liquid biopsy," which promises to diagnose cancer and other diseases with a simple blood test. She introduces Janet Vaughan, who set up the world’s first system of mass blood donation during the Blitz, and Arunachalam Muruganantham, known as “Menstrual Man” for his work on sanitary pads for developing countries. She probes the lucrative business of plasma transfusions, in which the US is known as the “OPEC of plasma.” And she looks to the future, as researchers seek to bring synthetic blood to a hospital near you. Spanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life's blood in an entirely new light.@rivatez 👍 I am halfway through Nine Pints ( https://t.co/h5JrsyAP8F ) atm, recommended.
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Sixth Edition)
Bruce Alberts
@nufuau Unfortunately Khan Academy is quite bad. My fastest progress came from 1) working through Molecular Biology of the Cell https://t.co/he5v8ipRHO, 2) googling grad courses and reading papers/articles pointed to on syllabus, 3) biohacker YouTube channels e.g. https://t.co/sAy7sDXavN
A Fire Upon The Deep
Vernor Vinge
After a spaceship crashes in unknown and unfriendly territory, two young children, the only survivors, are left to fend for themselves, but with time being of the essence, a rescue plan must be put into place quickly before the clock runs out on their lives. Reissue.@Davidromogr Sadly there aren't too many. I'm not a huge fan of much recent non-fiction in the space. For fiction at least: - The first chapter of "A Fire Upon the Deep" - Ted Chiang's "Lifecycle of Software Objects" - My own "Cognitive Discontinuity" :p
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang
@Davidromogr Sadly there aren't too many. I'm not a huge fan of much recent non-fiction in the space. For fiction at least: - The first chapter of "A Fire Upon the Deep" - Ted Chiang's "Lifecycle of Software Objects" - My own "Cognitive Discontinuity" :p
The End Is Always Near
Dan Carlin
A journey back in time that explores what happened—and what could have happened—from creator of the wildly-popular podcast Hardcore History and 2019 winner of the iHeartRadio Best History Podcast Award. Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about the past. His mega-hit podcast, Hardcore History, is revered for its unique blend of high drama, enthralling narration, and Twilight Zone-style twists. Carlin humanizes the past, wondering about things that didn’t happen but might have, and compels his listeners to “walk a mile in that other guy’s historical moccasins.” A political commentator, Carlin approaches history like a magician, employing completely unorthodox and always entertaining ways of re-looking at what we think we know about wars, empires, and leaders across centuries and millennia. But what happens to the everyman caught in the gears of history? Carlin asks the questions, poses the arguments, and explores the facts to find out. Inspired by his podcast, Hardcore History challenges the way we look at the past and ourselves. In this absorbing compendium, Carlin embarks on a whole new set of stories and major cliffhangers that will keep readers enthralled. Idiosyncratic and erudite, offbeat yet profound, Hardcore History examines issues that are rarely presented, and makes the past immediately relevant to our very turbulent present.Quite enjoying Dan Carlin's new book "The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses" https://t.co/lVy9eIzUpu , and ofc also a big fan of his Hardcore History podcasts. Has a real passion and talent for making history come alive.