By Nancy Stepan (2011)
Pages: 260, Final verdict: Great-read
Disease eradication is something we hardly think about in the west. Smallpox and
Polio are distant memories buried in our high school history books and we only
remember Malaria and Dengue when we're planning our next vacation. For this...
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By Stephen Hawking (2018)
Pages: 218, Final verdict: Should-read
Stephen Hawking addresses some of the big questions of our universe: how did it
all begin? or, are we alone in the universe? Brief Answers to the Big Questions
is the last book of the most famous physicist of our time....
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By Neil deGrasse Tyson (2017)
Pages: 222, Final verdict: Should-read
He is the most famous astrophysicist of our time. Face to one of the most famous
Internet memes, host of popular TV shows on space and science, and star in some
of the most entertaining debates you can find online,...
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By Pedro Domingos (2015)
Pages: 352, Final verdict: Great-read
Harvard Business Review declared Data Scientist the sexiest job of the 21st
century
[https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century],
back in 2012. And everywhere you look the words "artificial intelligence",
"machine learning" and "algorithms" appear....
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By Peter L. Bernstein (1996)
Pages: 337, Final verdict: Great-read
How certain can we be of future events? Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story
of Risk answers the question by following the path of handling uncertainty from
ancient times to modern risk management.
Written in 1996 by the American finance...
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