Below is a list of some books I’ve read over the past month or so that I highly recommended: Factfulness by Hans Rosling: This book…
Book Review: SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.” One of the key elements of the…
Book Review: QUIET by Susan Cain
“Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation” This is an engaging, informative and insightful book which helps introverts understand…
Book Review: THE HARD THING ABOUT HARD THINGS by Ben Horowitz
“You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.” If this quote doesn’t inspire you…
Book Review: DEEP WORK by Cal Newport
“Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity” This is a fantastic read, with strong arguments…
Book Review: THE BOOK OF WHY by Judea Pearl
“Another advantage causal models have that data mining and deep learning lack is adaptability“ Judea Pearl, along with Dana Mackenzie, provide an insightful and thought…
Book Review: REWORK by Jason Fried & David H. Hansson
“We have something new to say about building, running and growing (or not growing) a business” This book offers some sage advice for anyone who’s…
Book Review: WHEN by Daniel H. Pink
“This book is about timing. We all know that timing is everything. Trouble is, we don’t know much about about timing itself” This is an…
Book Review: TEAM OF TEAMS by General Stanley McChrystal
“This was not a war of planning and discipline (Iraq 2004), it was one of agility and innovation” This is a fun and insightful read…
Exponentially Logarithmic – Lifting the Lid on some Bloom Filter Derivations
In one of my previous posts on Bloom Filters, I stated the expressions for both the False Positive rate, ie $$p \approx \left( 1 –…