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Building Better Plots, by Kenneth Moreland

How to Read an Engineering Research Paper William G. Griswold UCSD
Paper reading form
A template for reviewing papers.

Study hacks blog, Cal Newport, Georgetown University

Many articles and vlogs of student and academia life, Philip J. Guo

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Steven Pinker.
How to write great prose based on how language works in human cognition.

You and your Research, Richard Hamming.
How to do great research... from one of the most prominent researcher in computing.

The Fabric of Reality, The Begining of Infinity, David Deutsch
"The thoery of everyting": parallel universe interpretation of quantum physics, epistemology, theory of computation, and evolution.
How to be (infinitely) optimistic?

Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Fragile-robust-Antifragile. When events are hard to predict and extremely consequential, focus on (anti)fragility instead of prediction/probability/risk.

How should we evalute progress in AI? David Chapman.
AI is a vast and rapidly changing field and how to evaluate the progress is a big question.

Augmenting Long-term Memory, Michael Nielsen.
Why and how to use time interval flashcard (Anki) to not only remember things but also deepen understanding. Useful for learning language and also reading research papers, literature reviews etc.

Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond, John Preskill
The status of quantum computing in the near future.

Neural network and deep learning, Michael Nielsen.
Introduction to (artificial) neural networks.

The Evolving Self, Robert Kegan.
The 5-stage development of humans. STEM education strives to help students transition to stage 4 (systematic, rational), but how do we develop support to help transition to stage 5 (fluidity, meta-rational), without trapping in stage 4.5 (nihilism)? See A bridge to meta-rationality vs. civilizational collapse