Moneyball
The obvious reading is that it’s a baseball book about on-base percentage. The better reading is that it’s about institutions that confuse habit with wisdom, right up until the spreadsheet starts winning.
Reviews
Longer notes on books that deserved margin scribbles.
Starter reviews for now. Later, this should become the argumentative wing of the house.
The Signal and the Noise
A useful reminder that prediction is hard, but not equally hard in all domains. Some systems are legible. Others are chaos wearing a tie.
The Alignment Problem
Strong on framing the practical and moral weirdness of machine learning. Helpful if you want a tour of the field without reading ten papers and developing a twitch.