Johannes Messner

Interesting Stuff

This is a list of things I think are worth reading / watching / listening to, for one reason or another, in no particular order.

I try to keep this as short and crisp as possible.

Books (fiction)

• Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
• Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers. Also, most of his other books.

Books (non-fiction)

• Gödel’s Proof by Ernest Nagel and James Roy Newman
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

ML learning resources

• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero and everything else that Andrej Karpathy releases
• The Illustrated Transformer (obviously)
• Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet
• Cross-entropy and KL-Divergence explained properly. I read and watched many explanations on this topics; this is the only one I like.

Podcasts

• Machine Learning Street Talk
• Dwarkesh Podcast
• The Ezra Klein Show
• Hardcore History

Career advice

• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
• How to Evaluate Startup Offers

Random stuff (maybe the best section?)

• Why Non-Determinism Isn’t So Weird, Or: The Most Enlightening Twitter Thread I’ve Ever Read
• Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
• Qualitative Quantum Mechanics and other things on Matther Cook’s web page
• J. Kenji López-Alt makes the best cooking content known to man, and I don’t think it’s particularly close