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{
"date": "2019/2",
"author": "Arundhati Roy",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9777.The_God_of_Small_Things?ac=1",
"description": "A captivating tale set in Kerala and written from the perspectives of young twins. It is critical of many taboos in Indian society, including the caste system, chauvinism and abuse. I especially enjoyed it because of it's various connections to my ethnicity, mother tongue and culture. Also a Man Booker Prize winner of 1997! ",
"title": "The God of Small Things"
},
{
"date": "2018/12",
"author": "Sudhir Venkatesh",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1491906.Gang_Leader_for_a_Day?ac=1&from_search=true",
"description": "A sociologist's view of his interactions with a gang in Chicago during his graduate studies. An interesting read for me as I got to learn more about an ecosystem of Chicago that I was so distant from while I was in the area for college. ",
"title": "Gang Leader for a Day"
},
{
"date": "2018/12",
"author": "Michelle McNamara",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068432-i-ll-be-gone-in-the-dark?ac=1&from_search=true",
"description": "An intriguing read if you're interested in the stories of serial killers. I found it especially enthralling because the killer was active in the Bay Area, where I currently reside. There's not much you'll take out of this book except some thrill. ",
"title": "I'll Be Gone In The Dark"
},
{
"date": "2018/11",
"author": "Hanya Yanagihara",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22822858-a-little-life?ac=1",
"description": "An incredibly moving and heart-wrenching book of a group of 4 friends as they progress through their life, from meeting in college to surviving/thriving in the world. At times very difficult to read, but worth it nonetheless.",
"title": "A Little Life"
},
{
"date": "2018/11",
"author": "Angela Duckworth",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit?ac=1&from_search=true",
"description": "Yet another book that strives to understand why some people are successful. It was an interesting read mainly because it is based on a solid foundation of psychology research.",
"title": "Grit"
},
{
"date": "2018/11",
"author": "Min Jin Lee",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34051011-pachinko?ac=1&from_search=true",
"description": "A beautifully written and moving story of multiple generations of a Korean family in Japan.",
"title": "Pachinko"
},
{
"date": "2018/10",
"author": "Mark Manson",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28257707-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck?ac=1&from_search=true",
"description": "A quick, entertaining read for me during my BART rides.",
"title": "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"
},
{
"date": "2018/9",
"author": "Greg McKeown",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077875-essentialism",
"description": "A self-help book about being disciplined about doing/buying less but better. I found it a quick, interesting read. Many self-help books state somewhat obvious facts, but I thought this book mentioned some counter-intuitive things that triggered further thought. I've been trying to reduce noise/waste in my own personal and professional lives over the last year.",
"title": "Essentialism"
},
{
"date": "2018/9",
"author": "Jennifer Egan",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34467031-manhattan-beach",
"description": "A thrilling page-turner that links war-era New York with underworld crime. Egan writes extremely well and keeps the reader interested throughout the entire book. I would highly recommend it.",
"title": "Manhattan Beach"
},
{
"date": "2018/8",
"author": "Helen Macdonald",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18803640-h-is-for-hawk",
"description": "A story of a woman who uses the process of training a hawk to overcome the mourning of her father. Even though this book is very well written, I found there to be a lack of plot progression and, hence, boring. ",
"title": "H is for Hawk"
},
{
"date": "2018/8",
"author": "Zheng Wang, Kun Fu, Jieping Yie",
"link": "http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3220000/3219900/p858-wang.pdf?ip=52.119.119.22&id=3219900&acc=OPEN&key=4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E6D218144511F3437&__acm__=1535427539_6350c0807bdaf1bed8a06092f70743df",
"description": "This paper is extremely relevant to the work I do at Uber. Not sure what else I can share. ",
"title": "Learning to Estimate the Travel Time"
},
{
"date": "2018/7",
"author": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15796700-americanah",
"description": "This is easily one of the best novels I have ever read. From the experiences of being an immigrant in the US to the intricate discussions of race and the poetically written narrative, this is a book that I could not stop reading. I especially identified with Adichie's description of being an immigrant in the US, from the culture shock when one first arrives to the lengths one goes to assimilate into society. What a book, cannot recommend more highly.",
"title": "Americanah"
},
{
"date": "2018/7",
"author": "Atul Gawande",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696006-being-mortal",
"description": "A very well-written piece of non-fiction by a world-renown physician. In this book, he discusses how medicine has prolonged human life, but will always have limits for what it can do. When a person is reaching death, what typically matters to them is not further prolonging their life, but being able to end their life in happiness and satisfaction. I thought this book was extremely interesting and helped me think about topics (old-age, death) that I hadn't given much thought to beforehand. ",
"title": "Being Mortal"
},
{
"date": "2018/6",
"author": "Jesmyn Ward ",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32920226-sing-unburied-sing?ac=1&from_search=true",
"description": "A creatively-written, but sorrowfully tragic, novel.",
"title": "Sing, Unburied, Sing"
},
{
"date": "2018/5",
"author": "Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao",
"link": "https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece845/docs/kafka.pdf",
"description": "I've been using Kafka at work for a while now, so reading the paper was just an effort to get a stronger understanding of the core system. Kafka is essentially a pub/sub messaging queue that can handle very high throughput due to some ingenious engineering and a trade off with durability. The system uses simpler storage logic that takes advantage of file system cache rather than implementing its own application-level cache. In addition, messages are always read sequentially, so all you need to save is an offset to where you want to start reading. These offsets are also stored by consumers -- the servers (or brokers, as they are called in Kafka) are stateless. The coordination in a distributed setting is simplified by using Zookeeper instead of a master node, and splitting each Kafka topic into partitions that can only be read by one consumer within a consumer group at any given time (avoids requiring locks or state management). Kafka guarantees at-least-once delivery and does not require an acknowledgement from the consumer (further enabling throughput to be much higher than traditional message queue systems). ",
"title": "Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing"
},
{
"date": "2018/5",
"author": "S. Keshav",
"link": "https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPaper.pdf",
"description": "This paper is very meta. I was never very interested in reading research papers during college, so here I am atoning for my mistakes. This paper goes over the three-pass approach of reading computer science research papers.",
"title": "How to Read a Paper"
},
{
"date": "2018/5",
"author": "Leslie Lamport",
"link": "https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf",
"description": "A seminal work in distributed systems. The Paxos Algorithm is a consensus algorithm used in fault-tolerant distributed systems. There are 3 roles: proposers, acceptors and learners. The gist of the algorithm is a proposer broadcasting a prepare request with number n to a the acceptors. If n is greater than the last prepare request the acceptor received, it responds to the proposer with a promise to not a accept any more proposals. Once the proposer receives a promise from a majority of acceptors, it sends an accept request to those acceptors with a proposal number n and value v. If the acceptor receives an accept request with value n, it accepts the proposal unless it has already promised for a prepare request with number greater than n. Finally, the acceptors respond with their acceptances to a set of \"distinguished learners\", which are then responsible for broadcasting the acceptance to the other learners.\n\nThere are obviously failure cases that the paper addresses and I have no included here. I found bits of the final part of the paper a little abstract and difficult to understand, but overall, a really concisely written paper.",
"title": "Paxos Made Simple"
},
{
"date": "2018/4",
"author": "Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, et al",
"link": "https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf",
"description": "I took many breaks while reading this paper, so I didn't get as much as I wanted out of it. BigTable is mainly just a multi-dimensional sorted map, with each value in the map being an array of bytes (hence the ability for it to store a wide variety of data). I found it fascinating how the entire BigTable system is dependent on other Google inventions, such as Google File System and Chubby.",
"title": "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data"
},
{
"date": "2018/3",
"author": "Emily Chang",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36288143-brotopia",
"description": "Diversity in tech (or the lack thereof) is an often-discussed topic. This book still contributed some alarming evidence on how women continue to face a bias against them in a systematic manner inside the tech industry. ",
"title": "Brotopia"
},
{
"date": "2018/3",
"author": "J.D Vance",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161156-hillbilly-elegy",
"description": "A eye-opening memoir of the life of a man who grew up in the Rust Belt. Vance writes very simply, but it's so engrossing that I read the book cover-to-cover in one five-hour sitting. It's also refreshing to see him be critical of both government policies and also the societal culture that leads to disenfranchisement of poor whites in America. ",
"title": "Hillbilly Elegy"
},
{
"date": "2018/3",
"author": "Adam Johnson",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11529868-the-orphan-master-s-son",
"description": "A thrilling story of an orphan's life in North Korea. The book was based on a lot of research the author conducted on the DPRK. I thought the book started off a little slow, but the second half is an intense page-turner.",
"title": "The Orphan Master's Son"
},
{
"date": "2018/3",
"author": "McMahon, Sculley et al (Research at Google)",
"link": "https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41159.html",
"description": "The TL;DR on this paper is the FTRL (\\\"Follow The Regularized Leader\\\") algorithm, an alternative to online gradient descent that works especially well for datasets with large, sparse input features (ie. billions of dimensions, but only hundreds of nonzero values). I'm not very interested in ad click prediction per say, but more so in large-scale realtime systems and implementing ML mechanisms on streaming data. What I found especially interesting in this paper are the optimizations that are done for this to work at Google's scale (probabilistic feature inclusion, encoding values with 16 bits rather than 32/64 bits, etc). Lastly, I thought Google's automated feature management system is a great idea for how features (referred to as \\\"signals\\\" in the paper) can be shared and managed among different teams. This is especially useful for large companies with a distributed approach to investing in ML.",
"title": "Ad Click Prediction: a View from the Trenches"
},
{
"date": "2018/3",
"author": "Marshall B. Rosenberg",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71730.Nonviolent_Communication",
"description": "An interesting read about how to express yourself more fully, empathize with others more patiently and mediate conflicts more thoughtfully.",
"title": "Nonviolent Communication"
},
{
"date": "2018/2",
"author": "Phil Knight",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog",
"description": "An incredibly inspiring book that is humbly written. I cannot recommend it more highly. So many great quotes, but here's one: \"Life is growth. You grow or you die.\"",
"title": "Shoe Dog"
},
{
"date": "2018/2",
"author": "Avinash Lakshman & Prashant Malik",
"link": "https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf",
"description": "I read this paper because I'm starting to use Cassandra at work. It's extremely interesting to read about the challenges that arise when developing distributed file systems and it reminded me of my fascination with distributed systems during college. Lastly, I love to see research sparked by industry needs (Cassandra was developed at Facebook to solve Inbox Search).",
"title": "Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System"
},
{
"date": "2018/1",
"author": "Michael Chabon",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3985.The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Kavalier_Clay",
"description": "A thrilling book based on the lives of two boys producing comic books in New York City during the Second World War. Extremely-well written, would highly recommend.",
"title": "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"
},
{
"date": "2017/12",
"author": "Alex Graves",
"link": "https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/phd.pdf",
"description": "I've only read the first 30 pages of Alex Graves' PhD thesis, but it's been a very clear and concise introduction to neural networks. I'd recommend it to anyone who has a shallow background in ML and wants to learn about neural nets.",
"title": "Supervised Sequence Labelling with Recurrent Neural Networks"
},
{
"date": "2017/11",
"author": "Siddhartha Mukherjee",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7170627-the-emperor-of-all-maladies",
"description": "A fascinating description of the history of cancer, through discovery, research and treatments. Even though Mukherjee does really well to make scientific topics more accessible to non-technical readers, I think you'd get a little more out of the book if you have a background in biology (which I do not). Still a highly recommended read.",
"title": "The Emperor of All Maladies"
},
{
"date": "2017/11",
"author": "Paul Beatty",
"link": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22237161-the-sellout",
"description": "This is the first book by an American author to win a Man Booker. A very interesting work of satire. There were definitely some references which I did not understand, but Beatty writes beautifully (there were a number of times I paused reading to appreciate the literature).",
"title": "The Sellout"
}
]