Best data or ML related reads last year (2019)?
Best data or ML related reads last year (2019)?
Hey data-minded folks!What did you read this year that you enjoyed or found useful? Feel free to put in books, blog posts, resources that helped you at work, anything at all. One book that I found really interesting is Cathy O'Neil's 2016 book Weapons on Math Destruction. I recommend it quite a bit to people who want to learn more about how algorithms can impact their daily life, and what type of biases those algorithms can have. O'Neil writes extremely clearly on this topic and it seemed to be to be extremely accessible to a non-technical audience (though I haven't talked with anyone who is not in this field about this, tbh).A resource that I'm excited about using in 2020 is: https://probabilitycourse.com/My partner found it for me, and I am definitely working on brushing up on my probability.A blog that I consistently love is Julia Silge's blog: https://juliasilge.com/blog/I use her blog for casual reading and for work-related reading. It's so good!And you?
Gentry
Gentry·Jan 04, 2020·2 repliesGentry
Gentry·Jan 04, 2020·2 repliesDavid Sanger's "A Perfect Weapon" is the best book about cybersecurity.
Caryn
carynjo·Jan 04, 2020Caryn
carynjo·Jan 04, 2020I rented the audible and started listening this morning. I can tell already that this will be an excellent and educational read. Thank you so much!
Caryn
carynjo·Feb 04, 2020·1 replyCaryn
carynjo·Feb 04, 2020·1 reply@Gentry this was a great book recommendation, thank you! I definitely did not know about half of the events that Sanger discussed (or just new surface level details), and it put a lot of current events in a different framework for me. I found the discussion on policy failures to be very interesting, both the internal tug of war on surveillance tools and secrecy, and how modern democracy seems to lack even the correct definitions to describe and understand events. Or what to do about them.Next, I picked up Soshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, which I have found very interesting so far.Thanks again!
Gentry
Gentry·Feb 04, 2020Gentry
Gentry·Feb 04, 2020@carynjo Put "The Fifth Domain" on your list next if you're interested in a problem/solution approach to cyber defense. Again, for a tech/policy book, it's delightfully fast-paced.
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