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What has been your favorite recently?


You didn't ask me, but piggybacking anyway. Some of these I've been going back to for years starting back in my PhD, working through some ideas as I have time. Some I have recently been learning new things from.

Approximately in that order below:

Too many stat mech books, but honestly favorite is this old one. If you want a real challenge try to read to the OG Gibbs. Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics

Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms

Information, Physics, and Computation

Elements of Information Theory

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

The Nature of Computation

Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems

Introduction to Embedded Systems, Second Edition: A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach

Data-Driven Science and Engineering: Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Control

An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality

BTW, feel free to ask for recommendations in physics, especially stat mech, simulation/computation, condensed matter theory


I also liked slatestarcodex a lot, but I think he has a new website now after journalism drama. He was some sort of psych professor if I recall. Just overall good, honest open reading + discussion. Sometimes political, sometimes not. I always point people to this motte and bailey article as I find it's a litmus test to see they find him too much. --https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...

If you're into science, you might like Quanta Magazine. I don't think there's any science journalism that will ever not bother me, but this one tries really hard. I happen to know that Jennifer Oullete in particular puts a lot of hard work into her articles


More recently, I've really enjoyed:

- Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (John C. Hull): https://www.amazon.ca/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-10th...

- Financial Accounting Theory (Scott & O'Brien): https://www.amazon.ca/Financial-Accounting-Theory-8th-Editio...

- Networks (Mark Newman): https://www.amazon.ca/Networks-Mark-Newman/dp/0198805098/




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