Books of 2025
Last updated: 5/13/2025
- Job (trans. Robert Alter)
- Blankets, Craig Thompson
- 🔁 Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different, Philip Ball
- Get Together: How To Build A Community With Your People, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, & Kai Elmer Sotto
- When We Cease To Understand The World, Benjamín Labatut (trans. Adrian Nathan West)
- Introducing the Medieval Dragon, Thomas Honegger
- Multiple Choice, Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell)
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
- 🔁 The Birds, Aristophanes (trans. Stephen Halliwell)
- Tomie: No Use Escaping, Junji Ito (trans. Naomi Kokubo)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, David Lynch
- Earthlings, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
- Goodnight Punpun Vol. 1, Inio Asano
- The Expanse #1: Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
- A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology, William W. Cohen
- You Deserve A Tech Union, Ethan Marcotte
- Abundance, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
- Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, Junji Ito (trans. Jocelyn Allen)
- No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai (trans. Donald Keene)
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Short Stories
Papers
- “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?”, Bender et. al.
- “Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data”, Bender and Koller
- “Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet),” Yiu et. al.
- “How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction”, Tenenbaum, Kemp, Giffiths, and Goodman
- “Large Language Models and the Turing Test: The ‘Use of Words’ vs. ‘General Educated Opinion’”, William J. Rapaport
- “A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be”, Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Intuition in Software Development”, Peter Naur