This year I paid extra attention to selecting female authors since I realised that on my previous reading lists women make barely 30%. And I indeed found some amazing authors. Top 5 books I read this year (including all genres): Naomi Alderman: The Power – amazing must-read thought experiment about power and inequality. I wrote aboutContinue reading “2018 in books”
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Autumn Morning Run
Yosemite National Park
A Book That Everyone Should Read: Angie Thomas
It’s about Seven. Sekani. Kenya. DeVante. It’s also about Oscar. Aiyana. Trayvon. Rekia. Michael. Eric. Tamir. John. Ezell. Sandra. Freddie. Alton. Philando. It’s also about that little boy in 1955 who nobody recognized at first – Emmett. The messed-up part? There are so many more. For a long time I couldn’t bring myself to startContinue reading “A Book That Everyone Should Read: Angie Thomas”
San Francisco
Hiking in the Clouds
Zermatt
Machine learning blog at ETH
The interest in possible applications of machine learning in physics has been growing exponentially for a while now and there seems to be a sea of literature. Couple of months ago we decided to review the literature and have weekly seminar about the papers we found interesting. There is a dedicated blog post forContinue reading “Machine learning blog at ETH”
Mount Rigi
A Book That Everyone Should Read: Naomi Alderman
I can’t even begin to describe the impact that reading The Power by Naomi Alderman had on me (and I am sure I am not alone). I would even go as far as to predict that this book will become a classic that will keep on being discussed for many decades. The main premise isContinue reading “A Book That Everyone Should Read: Naomi Alderman”
