Reading Log | January 2021

This is my first reading log! I put down links to most of the things I read every month. All of these are "recommended" to some extent, since that's the reason I chose to finish reading them. This month is slightly incomplete since I only came up with this recently.

Misc

• http://web.mit.edu/6.055/old/S2009/notes/jump-heights.pdf

• Moral Competence | Evan Conrad

• The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class – alexdanco.com

• Still Alive - Astral Codex Ten

• How to feel good | Evan Conrad

• Every day of Money Stuff

• 80,000 Hours thinks that only a small proportion of people should earn to give long term - 80,000 Hours

Programming

• TorchScript Language Reference — PyTorch 1.7.0 documentation

• A half-hour to learn Rust - fasterthanli.me

• Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev

• How we built the GitHub globe - The GitHub Blog

• How tcmalloc Works | James Golick

• Interfaces for Explaining Transformer Language Models – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.

• Best of show - abuse of libc

• Pushing the limits of GPU performance with XLA | by TensorFlow | TensorFlow | Medium

• XLA: TensorFlow, Compiled! (TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017) - YouTube

• GitHub - google-research/dex-lang: Research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family

• GitHub - deepmind/dm-haiku: JAX-based neural network library

• MuZero Intuition

• Executable PNGs - djhworld

• Auto-Vectorization in LLVM — LLVM 12 documentation

• 🔪 JAX - The Sharp Bits 🔪 — JAX documentation

• https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/uploads/production/document/path/3/3742/PlymouthUniversity_MathsandStats_gradients_and_directional_deriavatives.pdf

• You don't know JAX

Tech, but not Programming

• Systems design explains the world: volume 1 - apenwarr

• The Curse of Smart People - apenwarr

• Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring – Daniel Lemire's blog

• Computers can be understood - Made of Bugs