Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing - John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm
The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner
Winning The Knowledge Transfer Race - Michael J. English and William H. Baker
Wellsprings of Knowledge - Dorothy Leonard-Barton
If Only We Knew What We Know - Carla O'dell and C. Jackson Grayson
Started, but haven't finished yet:
The Discipline of Market Leaders - Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
Marketing Warfare - Jack Trout and Al Ries
Naked Statistics - Charles Wheelan
Wiki Management - Rod Collins
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand
Fiction:
NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
The first four books in the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
Innocence - Dean Koontz
Deeply Odd - Dean Koontz
Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
The Black List - Brad Thor
Most of The New Lovecraft Circle - an anthology of Lovecraft mythos stories by contemporary writers
And started re-reading Asimov's Foundation last night. I've read the original trilogy before, but this time I intend to read all seven books. But I'm starting with Foundation and going to the end, before going back to the prequels.
Good question. I felt like there was some significant overlap between the two, and I think that's borne out by commentary from other people who have read both. I think a few people have even accused Kurzweil of borrowing a little too freely from Hawkins' HTM idea. But, to my mind, they complement each other well. Between the two, you get a strong dose of case for thinking of the human mind's primary algorithm being some form of pattern-matching.
For anybody who is interested in AI topics, and who hasn't read either or both of those, I'd really recommend reading both.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson Mccullers
The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Ulysses by James Joyce
Why? One of the years I bothered keeping track[1], I read a hair over 50 novels (I think the actual number was 51 or 52), and a handful of non-fiction books I didn't bother counting. And one of those was Moby Dick which isn't exactly a fast read.
For somebody who likes to read and has time to read, that list doesn't seem outlandish to me at all. shrug
its not the question of "is it possible?", its just that these are always listed amongst the 'top 100 books of all time' and each needs more than just 'reading time' you cannot read Ulysses and 1984 the same month, physically you can, but that would be useless.
On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
How To Create A Mind - Ray Kurzweil
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
The Origin of Wealth - Eric Beinhocker
The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
The Money Culture - Michael Lewis
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations - David Warsh
Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing - John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm
The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner
Winning The Knowledge Transfer Race - Michael J. English and William H. Baker
Wellsprings of Knowledge - Dorothy Leonard-Barton
If Only We Knew What We Know - Carla O'dell and C. Jackson Grayson
Started, but haven't finished yet:
The Discipline of Market Leaders - Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
Marketing Warfare - Jack Trout and Al Ries
Naked Statistics - Charles Wheelan
Wiki Management - Rod Collins
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand
Fiction:
NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
The first four books in the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
Innocence - Dean Koontz
Deeply Odd - Dean Koontz
Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
The Black List - Brad Thor
Most of The New Lovecraft Circle - an anthology of Lovecraft mythos stories by contemporary writers
And started re-reading Asimov's Foundation last night. I've read the original trilogy before, but this time I intend to read all seven books. But I'm starting with Foundation and going to the end, before going back to the prequels.