Reading List

I'm using the table below to keep track of the books I'm currently reading.

In Progress

Paperbacks

Title	Author	Start Date	Finish Date	Amazon Link
The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society	Norbert Wiener	6/20/17	Some point in 2017(?)	here
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business	Neil Postman	6/7/17	6/20/17 (?)	here
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code	Matthew Cobb	1/29/17	~ 3/1/20	here
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why	Bart Ehrman	12/25/19	12/29/19	here
The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel	Mary Robinette Kowal	12/25/19	~ 2/6/20	here
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience	Matthew Cobb	~ 4/20/20	6/3/20	here
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance	Emanuel Derman	7/27/20	8/8/20	here

Textbooks

Title	Author	Chapter	Start Date	Finish Date	Amazon Link
Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)	Andrew Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos	10	?	4/20/20
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition	Don Norman		7/11/20		here

Queued

This is a list of books (primarily from Humble Bundles) that I want to finish reading at some point.

Artificial Intelligence

Musts

• Cybernetics
• What Computers Still Can't Do
• The Deep Learning Revolution
• A Life in Cybernetics

Maybes

• Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea
• Artifical Minds
• Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
• Understanding Intelligence

Applied Machine Learning

Musts

• Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

Maybes

• Applied Text Analysis with Python
• Natural Language Processing with Python
• Natural Language Processing with PyTorch
• Deep Learning Cookbook
• Thoughtful Machine Learning with Python

Circuit Design / Electronics

Musts

• Electronics For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Maybes

• Circuitbuilding Do-It-Yourself For Dummies
• Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects

Systems Administration

Musts

• AWS System Administration
• Kubernetes: Up and Running

Maybes

• Cloud Native Infrastructure
• DNS and BIND, 5th Edition

Programming

Musts

• Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
• Elegant Scipy
• Testing Python: Applying Unit Testing, TDD, BDD and Acceptance Testing
• Test-Driven Development with Python, 2nd Edition
• Algorithms in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
• Fluent Python

Maybes

• Cracking Codes with Python
• Designing Distributed Systems
• The Art of Readable Code
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Operating Systems

Musts

• Modern Operating Systems

Maybes

• Linux Programming Interface

Mathematics/Statistics

• Think Bayes

Imaging

• Digital Image Processing, 4th Edition

Personal Finance

• Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

Popular Science

• This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
• The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself