Most academics have a collection of favorite articles and books on their websites. Here are mine. I don't endorse all of these viewpoints, but I did enjoy reading them.

Math + CompSci Essays
Paul Lockhart's Lament
Rich Sutton's Bitter Lesson
Sarah Hooker's Hardware Lottery
James Somers ponders ChatGPT
Akshay Venkatesh considers the AI Mathematician
Underwood Dudley on Mathematical Cranks

 

Technical Articles

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Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention Alok Puranik

 

Technical Books

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation Michael Sipser
ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer Crispin Rope, Mark Priestley, and Thomas Haigh

 

Articles, nonfiction

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The Aquarium 😢
Who is the Bad Art Friend? 🤔
Inside the Meltdown at CNN 🤣
Living with a Visionary 😢
J-School Confidential 🤔

 

Books, nonfiction

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Abundance 🤔
Paying for the Party 🤔
The University: An Owner's Manual 🤔
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students 🤔

 

Short fiction

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Omakase 🤔
Cat Person 😢
The Pool 🤔
Children's Holiday Letters to Satan 🤣
Escape from Spiderhead 🤔

 

Books, fiction

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Yesteryear 🤣
Dear Committee Members 🤣
The Uncollected Stories of Allan Garganus 🤔