Library | हृषीकेश सिंह

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ― Carl Sagan

Why do you read?

Because it takes me across space and time.

Philosophers a thousand years dead have shared their thoughts with me. I have watched over Heyerdahl's shoulder as he navigated the South seas on a raft. I've saved Fantastica with a wish, survived triffids and hunted the white whale.

Books take me places no train or plane ever will.

“Humans are obsessed with escapism through movies, books, music, art, daydreams, our souls weren’t made for this world.” – Read somewhere, I don’t remember 💭

Only keeping the fleeting flairs of these pieces.

Books: Non-Fiction

The Story of Philosophy

A friend recommended. A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.

1984

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Iliad

Ready to Fire

Blindness

The Trail

Odyssey

Eichmann in Jerusalem

I have read the work of German philosopher Hannah Arendt in the past and the Eichmann trial came up frequently but I read this book after watching the movie Operation Finale and a documentary The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal.

Prana and Pranayama

An exceptional book by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati which everyone should read since everyone breaths. I never knew I was breathing wrong. This book will make you understand the deep correlation between your prana and your holistic well being. I found this book accidently when I was visiting a monestary (मठ)

The Trail

example image — Energy and Civilization: A History (Vaclav Smil)

Books: Fiction

Learning Resources

Research Papers

CV & NLP

This is an unstructured list of resources for learning NLP a.k.a. Natural Language Processing, ranging from basics to advanced in not so particular order.

A visual introduction to layman verison of Generative AI: This is an interactive article to explain the simplified innner working of LLM.
Large Language Models: A Survey: A review paper presenting a comprehensive overview of LLMs. Weekend reading stuff.
Machine Learning Engineering Open Book: Assimilation of really valuable guidance. All you need to actually build real world application in production.
How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: a Worklog

Reinforcement Learning

DeepMind:
- Instructor: David Silver
- Even though the course is a little older(2013) but the explanations are completely on point and intuitive with a perfect balance of mathematics and visual explanation. David Silver for reinforcement learning is like Andrew Ng for classical machine learning.

WatchList

In no particular order whatsoever

Interstellar
Tenet
Manchester by the Sea
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Hannibal
Margin Call
Breaking Bad
Normal People
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Schindler’s List (1993)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Batman Begins (2005), & The Dark Knight (2008)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Bourne Trilogy (2002, 04, 07)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Cinderella Man (2005)
The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)
Rudy (1993)
Up in the Air (2009)
Goodfellas (1990)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inception (2010)
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Inside Man (2006)
October Sky (1999)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Moneyball (2011)
Argo (2012)
Rush (2013)
Whiplash (2014)
Inside Out (2015)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Creed (2015)
The Big Short (2015)
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
The Founder (2016)
The Prestige (2006)
Memento (2000)
The Social Network (2010)
Hurt Locker
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Talented Mr Ripley
Se7en
Arrival

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