Neal Parikh Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Teaching AI policy at Columbia. Previously Director of AI for NYC. PhD from Stanford AI Lab. https://t.co/IWui2szqUu
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul GawandeNeal Parikh@mdredze @erinbiba I don’t really care what doctors think, beyond a point. The issue is patients and outcomes. Atul Gawande wrote a piece in NYer about how it takes them 10 years (!) to get to 50% adoption of better practices because they are so stuck in their ways.
Paperback, 2008
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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Anthony BourdainNeal Parikh@Frances_Coppola Anthony Bourdain profiled him in Medium Raw. He cleans some absurd amount like 1200 pounds of fish a day and when he’s not there it takes three sous chefs to do the same thing and it takes them longer. Low skill.
Paperback, 2011
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Social Choice and Individual Values
Kenneth Joseph ArrowNeal ParikhSocial Choice and Individual Values, by Kenneth Arrow https://t.co/NTOYry5lfJ
Paperback, 2012
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Lucky Jim
Kingsley AmisNeal Parikh@Karapetian_A Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis https://t.co/Amng3s02YO
Paperback, 2012
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Nice Work
David LodgeNeal Parikh@Karapetian_A Nice Work, by David Lodge https://t.co/A4KRTwuLpM
Paperback, 1990
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Applied Numerical Linear Algebra
James W. DemmelNeal Parikh@amy_tabb Golub and van Loan, Matrix Computations Demmel, Applied Numerical Linear Algebra Nocedal and Wright, Numerical Optimization These are all classics/standards.
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Christopher M. BishopNeal Parikh@summanager @ryxcommar Christopher Bishop, “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” has a good treatment if I’m remembering correctly.
Paperback, 2016
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The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays
Oscar WildeNeal Parikh@golikehellmachi Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying” https://t.co/GNkjLeHO4x
Paperback, 2021
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The Lambda Calculus. Its Syntax and Semantics
Henk BarendregtNeal Parikh@mathematicsprof I remember reading an Amazon review by a kid looking for a high school calculus book who accidentally bought “The Lambda Calculus: Its Syntax and Semantics” by Barendregt.
Paperback, 2012
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor DostoyevskyNeal Parikh@kbayudan @AdrienneLaF This really isn’t a minor detail. Translators matter with every book (Constance Garnett, Crime and Punishment, etc) but with Flaubert the language and vocabulary is so specific. It’s harder to enjoy Sentimental Education in English because of this
Paperback, 2016
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