Reading List for this winter
running list, updated as I go.
Novels
The Affluent Society
Blood Meridian
Flowers for Algernon
The Forever War
Franny and Zooey
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Words cannot describe how excited I am to read the short stories here after watching Pantheon (2022). Such an incredible show with almost frighteningly real parallels to how fast technology is progressing here, particularly with AI.
On the Road
Stories of Your Life and Others
To the Lighthouse
Train Dreams
I’ll be honest… I saw the movie first (yikes!). Regardless, I had just as well an experience reading the novella as I did watching the movie. What I find most interesting is the portrayl and meaning of the wolf-girl (whether it’s a vision or to be interpreted literally like horror).
Technical
Calculus on Manifolds
Papers
Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
A Dual-Stage Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Network for Time Series Prediction
FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness
FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning