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Books - May 20, 2023

Below is a running list of books or textbooks that I find interesting or want to come back to. Finance Principles of Finance - Rittenberg, Libby, and Timothy Tregarthen. Part of MIT OCW Principles of Microeconomics The Applied Theory of Price - Donald N. McCloskey Mathematics Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Mathematics - Brendan W. Sullivan, CMU Infinite Descent, An introductory pure mathematics textbook - Clive Newstead A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics - Jeremy Kun Physics The Feynman Lectures on Physics - A written representation of Feynman’s lectures, courtesy of Caltech

Interesting links - May 16, 2023

Below is a running list of sites or pages I find interesting or want to come back to. Blogs Farnum Street - a blog on mental models and insignts, as recommended by @naval in his book Commoncog - ‘Commoncog is a blog about better business and career decision making.’ Robert Heaton Ben Evans Machine Learning MLU-Explain - ‘visual explanations of core machine learning concepts’ Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?

On Internships - Feb 3, 2022

I consider getting an internship to be the most crucial part of a successful computer science (and most other) college experience. As I advise my younger family members and other friends graduating college around me, the world is an extremely competitive place. There are thousands of other students graduating at the same time into an increasingly tight labor market. Many of them will have better grades, come from a better-known school, and will have more extracurriculars. The deciding factor, then, might be the extra experience and investment into your own education that an internship brings.

About this Website (2022) - Jan 2, 2022

The original About this Website described my aversion to any website generation, I wanted something as simple as possible without repeating myself. It was meant to be the first post of surely many more to come. Well, here we are a year and a half later with no posts to speak of, and I broke the original ethos of no generated website by spending the day integrating Hugo. I wanted to be able to quickly write a post and deploy it, without logging into a server.

About this Website - May 31, 2020

This site is intended to be simple, easy to add content to, close to html/css, and reliable. The domain name and web server are both provided by Digital Ocean’s $5/month droplet. This is a small virtual server that can run different operating systems, this one is running Ubuntu 18.04. I’m using nginx as the web server, the instructions I followed are here. I have it configured to serve the files for this website out of my home directory so that I can version control the folder.