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Reviews Reviews of books, papers, and long articles from the reading log: what the work argues, where I was persuaded, and what I made of it.
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Topic AI-assisted engineering AI for operations AI platforms Applied security Chess Cryptocurrency Cybernetics Distributed systems Edge systems Energy Enterprise architecture Finance Game AI Games Geography Go History Insurance Life sciences Literature Machine learning Mathematics The open web Operating systems Philosophy Physics Platform automation Policy Programming languages Reliability Semiconductors Shogi Simulation Sovereignty StarCraft Synthetic biology
Technology Durable execution Elixir GPUs Haskell Kubernetes Linux OpenBSD OpenTelemetry Pingora Rust TypeScript WebAssembly Zola
Length Under 10 min 10 to 20 min Over 20 min
2026 Oct 29 Sebastian Mallaby's biography of Demis Hassabis is the best history of modern AI I know, and an honest study of a man who hates control and exercises it.
Intelligence Reinforcement learning Games Research labs AI alignment History of technology Technology races Post-scarcity Chess Shogi Go StarCraft
Oct 24 Tim Berners-Lee's memoir is the story of a British engineer at a Franco-Swiss lab giving a protocol away. Read in 2026, it is also the origin story of AI's data supply.
History of technology Hypertext Training data Data sovereignty Research labs Intellectual property Europe