My Reading List

Here are some books and blogs I’ve read or plan to read. I’ll update this list from time to time.

Books

I’ve read these books:

• Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller, 2022
• The PhD Grind: A Ph.D. Student Memoir, by Philip J. Guo, 2012
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, by Ulrich Drepper, 2007

I plan to read these books:

• The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher, 2021

Blogs

• An Opinionated Guide to ML Research by John Schulman(scientist at OpenAI, 2017)
• The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton(Prominent Reinforcement Learning researcher, 2019)
• 李沐：创业一年，人间三年 by Mu Li(Author of MXNet, senior researcher at Amazon, 2024)
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic by David Goldberg(1991)

I plan to read these blogs:

• What every systems programmer should know about concurrency by Matt Kline, 2020

Videos

• Eric Schmidt at Stanford Talk on AI, Google, and the Future, 2024.8, transcript