Bookshelf

What I read, and what I did with it.

Technical books and Kindle reads. Each review covers what the book argues, what I learned, how I applied it in my own work, and which of its references are worth following.

Draft. Covers come from Open Library. Shelves and reading status are from our conversations: remove books you haven't read and add the rest.

Technical books.

Deep Generative ModelingJakub M. Tomczak

Deep Generative Modeling

Jakub M. Tomczak

From autoregressive models to VAEs, flows and diffusion, each built from probability theory and code.

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How to Solve It

George Pólya

Four phases for any problem: understand it, make a plan, carry it out, look back.

The science of learning.

Cover of Make It Stick

Make It Stick

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel

Retrieval, spacing and interleaving beat rereading, even when they feel slower.

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How We Learn

Benedict Carey

The science of memory: why forgetting helps, and how to use spacing, testing and context.

Reading
How We LearnStanislas Dehaene

How We Learn

Stanislas Dehaene

The brain's four pillars of learning: attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation.

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Powerful Teaching

Pooja K. Agarwal and Patrice M. Bain

Learning research turned into classroom practice: retrieval, spacing, interleaving and feedback.

Reading
How People Learn IINational Academies of Sciences

How People Learn II

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

A consensus report on what research says about how people learn, from infancy to adulthood.

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Learning as a Generative Activity

Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer

Eight strategies that make learners build understanding: summarising, mapping, drawing, imagining, self-testing, self-explaining, teaching and enacting.

Reading

Writing.

Cover of The Craft of Research

The Craft of Research

Wayne C. Booth et al.

How to turn a topic into a question, a question into an argument, and an argument into a report.

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On Writing Well

William Zinsser

Clear nonfiction comes from cutting clutter until only the thought is left.

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On Writing

Stephen King

Half memoir, half toolbox: read a lot, write a lot, and cut the second draft by a tenth.

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The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White

Rules of usage and composition, summed up in three words: omit needless words.