Some recommendations I find I make to people on a regular basis. Items marked in green are particularly good. #### Books [Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead](https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Your-Plow-Over-Bones/dp/0525541349/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TZ4XVP8A7I44&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5uvdphtqNcxh4xyzC5fz9M_Q-a_qQJ1ID52wyUFt-lrcHJi6LD-BwjbPAahouJ0A8KwBRPIeSDv8LV6zUNnaprfuQd7xJbaf870ODQdd5Cy-X6EvFn8C1ce54w2KbEjGA-bR0JzpCSqxMyyvi8M5gWPSlWkm2_8NU4pjOqUNiVL5X2q36ws9R26GJ0O2wWt_X3Ntl3VP7Q5SrsMKXRg7hk8ECAKfGgysxkFouMC7zmU.UFA7PNEeROatuS7hCr6mRe7NDA8Gdj-YioXRkXa5eKw&dib_tag=se&keywords=drive+your+plow+over+the+bones+of+the+dead&qid=1712174789&sprefix=Drive+your+pl%2Caps%2C266&sr=8-1) [Flights](https://www.amazon.com/Flights-Olga-Tokarczuk/dp/0525534202/ref=sr_1_1?crid=266CKJANG47ND&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XgHp8ba-UrWLZ6Vhx5NIW37xT_93b8JUdHaieQuBimR4LBHJoipdXawvrcnIJf1_2fzJccbuLAanOx4HzJafTfyXxaynzkPQl6JX7S1r1wTN7x8L-1Hc4puCZ0Bkqk85IyxJ7zEbG3DA0ek_Dn2r70keuhy-eyktPXFlE1hih23qpz-9c0fyFu38n61m58d3ECwukkXPaA7o1vbSK8N3BExcGpQZW2KNkqijD9EbrPk.O9T6BUxWEieC5ACQtv8U6aKfLTCtIyTHBbvENyDwKh0&dib_tag=se&keywords=flights+olga+tokarczuk&qid=1712175038&sprefix=Flights%2Caps%2C228&sr=8-1) [The Writing Life](https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Life-Annie-Dillard/dp/0060919884/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UPO4WBVFX1LU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.z0IooQHv7NRi4tZqyx7zEWzTIa-LzIZ-7DY1I2wEYdcNjLy_lW8XKc8XM8QhXtZpYlItdEFoFWTP7A2qbVDEonYq5nsRqy2G1KCLcd7dLg8IpZ8HRXLwwGZ6-vVgl9JkW68fsu9pU_KScrD-Dy0yHPN-2JKLKGj7fvEQtUDUw1IsIZIg9fz1BaEC8GOLGjJeGkmNxjjYLB0zqB1s1CrFJ1vH8H71ZXkmXi2sv29vBDc._HU6VIbOQo-833US1rwdaiFjvf8tS96U5vBZFY_M1WI&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+writing+life+annie+dillard&qid=1712174906&sprefix=on+writing+annie%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1) [The Sympathizer](https://www.amazon.com/Sympathizer-Novel-Pulitzer-Prize-Fiction/dp/0802124941/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QRTXQ6KSX9KT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7GJZX49O2OJASqIf1AKaBn90lrgQG79O9TVX8i0aNJx9C51OnQuL4fc-AkgH5SYUwOZC_kJ4GTbx3bEvuz26DI549Novs4HJ8kywEp-zhwc1uJeLlGjnOKojjqWay-L2rx-0uCarpxWToVDw1aas18JzMfM74nCFnlyXPM3rR8OySNewRXmPkw6sGAQEyg_Ozxu40jA7LX3HGo9DM1_vsPXYAAzUFigh6tCrUi40BR8.3Ofu5O5ZNi-yOVlLBiSZnl0aPlDLt6vLLqbb0GN1IuY&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Sympathizer&qid=1712174774&sprefix=the+sympathize%2Caps%2C189&sr=8-1) [A Little Larger than the Entire Universe](https://www.amazon.nl/Little-Larger-Than-Entire-Universe/dp/0143039555) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/3895082090" style="color: green;">Walden</a> [Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking](https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Fat-Acid-Heat-Mastering/dp/1476753830) [A Pattern Language](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195019199) (The basis for Designed for Connection!) [Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0151008221) [The Rise and Fall of American Growth](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691147728) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/0765304198" style="color: green;">Stories of your Life and Others</a> [Magnificent Rebels](https://www.amazon.com/MAGNIFICENT-REBELS/dp/1529392756) [The Invention of Nature](https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/038535066X) [Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training](https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Training/dp/0982522738) [Strong Enough? Thoughts from Thirty Years of Barbell Training](https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Enough-Thoughts-Barbell-Training/dp/0976805448) [Chip War](https://www.amazon.com/Chip-War-Worlds-Critical-Technology/dp/1398504092) #### Films [Past Lives](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/past_lives) [Sicario](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sicario_2015) [Petite Maman](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/petite_maman) [A Separation](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_separation_2011) <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/?ref_=chttp_t_26" style="color: green;">City of God</a> [The Departed](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/?ref_=chttp_t_40) [Whiplash](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/?ref_=chttp_t_42) <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/?ref_=chttp_t_61" style="color: green;">The Lives of Others</a> [Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=chttp_t_72) [Lawrence of Arabia](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/?ref_=chttp_t_100) [There Will Be Blood](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/?ref_=chttp_t_141) [Million Dollar Baby](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405159/?ref_=chttp_t_180) [In the Name of the Father](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107207/?ref_=chttp_t_192) [Stand By Me](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092005/?ref_=chttp_t_230) [Portrait of a Lady on Fire](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/portrait_of_a_lady_on_fire) [In the Mood for Love](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_the_mood_for_love_2001) [Moonlight](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moonlight_2016) <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6543652/" style="color: green;">Cold War</a> See essay: [[Favourite scenes from my favourite films]] #### Music See essay on [[Mind Opening Music]]. #### Textbooks, Helpful Resources [MathAcademy](https://www.mathacademy.com/) [AI Engineering](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ai-engineering/9781098166298/) [Designing Machine Learning Systems](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-machine-learning/9781098107956/) [Ultrascale Playbook](https://huggingface.co/spaces/nanotron/ultrascale-playbook) [Dive into Deep Learning](https://d2l.ai/) [11. Attention Mechanism](https://d2l.ai/chapter_attention-mechanisms-and-transformers/index.html) [12. Optimization Algorithms](https://d2l.ai/chapter_optimization/index.html) [Low Level Technicals of LLMs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRM_P6UfdIc&ab_channel=AIEngineer) [Building Agents with Model Context Protocol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQmXtrmQ5Zg&ab_channel=AIEngineer) [HuggingFace AI Agents Course](https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/en/unit2/introduction) [EPI: Python](https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Tsung-Hsien-Lee/dp/1537713949)