Books of 2025

Last updated: Wed Apr 23 2025

  1. Job (trans. Robert Alter)
  2. Blankets, Craig Thompson
  3. 🔁 Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different, Philip Ball
  4. Get Together: How To Build A Community With Your People, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, & Kai Elmer Sotto
  5. When We Cease To Understand The World, Benjamín Labatut (trans. Adrian Nathan West)
  6. Introducing the Medieval Dragon, Thomas Honegger
  7. Multiple Choice, Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell)
  8. Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
  9. 🔁 The Birds, Aristophanes (trans. Stephen Halliwell)
  10. Tomie: No Use Escaping, Junji Ito (trans. Naomi Kokubo)
  11. A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
  12. ‌Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, David Lynch
  13. Earthlings, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
  14. Goodnight Punpun Vol. 1, Inio Asano
  15. The Expanse #1: Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
  16. A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology, William W. Cohen

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Papers

  1. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?”, Bender et. al.
  2. “Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data”, Bender and Koller
  3. “Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet),” Yiu et. al.
  4. “How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction”, Tenenbaum, Kemp, Giffiths, and Goodman
  5. “Large Language Models and the Turing Test: The ‘Use of Words’ vs. ‘General Educated Opinion’”, William J. Rapaport
  6. “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”, Ursula K. Le Guin
  7. “Intuition in Software Development”, Peter Naur
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