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by sebmnt 955 days ago
Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu - A year ago I read The Three Body Problem by the same author and extremely loved his approach to storytelling and sci-fi. Since then I have bought his other famous books (Ball Lightning, The Dark Forest and Deaths End) and I am really loving Ball Lightning so far.

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin - I'd like to call myself a creative (I produce music, paint and love cinema but all as a hobby). I recently read The Artists Way and found it really fulfilling in how to thing about creativity and nurturing your creative self. A friend lent me her copy of The Creative Act and after the first few pages I bought my own copy as I wanted to highlight and write notes in the book. Really recommend it for anyone who wants to think about how to think about creativity.

Multiple papers on ANNs - I am working with ANN libraries such as FAISS, Annoy and HSNWLib as part of my job as an ML Engineer in recommendation systems and I want to properly understand how the internals of these approximate vector search indexes work. I stared reading `Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs` and it lead to a rabbit hole of different papers I have on my stack.