Reading List

Things we've read and found interesting or helpful!

Cameron Witkowski

  • Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter
  • Why Greatness Cannot be Planned by Kenneth Stanley
  • Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel
  • The Language of Creation by Mathieu Pageau
  • On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
  • Design in Nature by Adrian Bejan
  • The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies
  • Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
  • Deep Learning by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, and Yoshua Bengio
  • Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson

Victor Gao:

  • Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
  • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

Nithura Thevarajah

  • How to Make Your Own Neural Network by Rashid Tariq
  • Neural Networks by 3Blue1Brown (YouTube Playlist)
  • Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow_ Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems by Aurélien Géron
  • Grokking algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava

Kyrylo Kalashnikov

  • Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
  • History of The Idea of Progress Robert A. Nisbet