Her Debut Novel Was a Bestseller and a Hit TV Show. Her Follow-Up Is Just as Charming.
Bonnie Garmus’ Peck & Peck may not achieve the same popularity as Lessons in Chemistry, but it offers something fresh.
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David Byrne’s New Book Explores the Strange Afterlife of Good Ideas: From Vermeer’s Paintings to Roman Concrete & Dark Matter
David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
Photonics Fundamentals For Electronics Engineers: eBook
What it is, why it's important, and how it's being used.
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading
Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the Dark Forest Collective.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Humanity is under assault by malevolent "antimemes"—ide…
My Top 5 Books for Learning Quantum Mechanics
Here are the best books to become an expert in Quantum Mechanics, with no experience needed.
The 25 Science-Fiction Books You Must Read, Ranked
And six short story collections
From Paris to Hangzhou: The $9m Quest to Return China’s Lost Encyclopedia
For 140 years, part of the Yongle Encyclopedia sat unread in a Paris attic — a researcher’s keen eye and an entrepreneur’s deep pockets brought it back to China.
A new cookbook pays tribute to two New Orleans staples — 'Rhythm & Roux'
At Bayou Bar, music and food go hand in hand. Which is why a new cookbook from chef Brian Landry and bandleader Peter Harris has recipes from the menu and stories from the musicians who play there.
Nine Funny Books That Will Actually Make You Laugh
Serious literature is better when it’s funny.
10 Science Fiction Books You Need To Read According To Margaret Atwood
Ten of Margaret Atwood's must-read science fiction books, including classics and modern hits, that have shaped the whole genre.
Bayesian textbook list
Exactly what the title says.
What a novel about a dating app for dead bodies reveals about human connection
Author Sarah Pierce explores dating apps, loneliness and human connection through a novel about a corpse-matching algorithm
Opinion | How a ’70s Improv Book Became Silicon Valley’s Required Reading
It can be useful to see reality as malleable.
Thinking in Python
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers
How We Got to Now PDF Summary - Steven Johnson | 12min Blog
Do you want to learn how Chinese women abort their baby girls today because the Titanic sank in 1912? Or how the bikini trend owes its existence to the Chicago sewer system of the 1860s? Or, say, how mirrors started the Renaissance? Then you will enjoy Steven Johnson’s How We…
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
Correction for Listing 6.5 in Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch
Short correction note for the random seed in Listing 6.5 on page 198 of Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch.
The Garbage Collection Handbook
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CUDA for Deep Learning - Elliot Arledge
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) provides a powerful parallel programming model AI engineers can use to tap the massive processing power of NVIDIA GPUs. CUDA delivers direct control, debugging power, and acceleration at the GPU level that can’t be matched by other…
Book Review: How Radio Astronomy Made the Invisible Visible
Emma Chapman's "The Echoing Universe" is a vivid survey of the hidden parts of the cosmos and those who seek them out.
Seven Books You’ll Never Outgrow
Some stories are worth revisiting at every stage of life.
Numerical Python 3rd edition
This book demonstrates how to work with mathematical modeling and solve problems with Python's numerical, symbolic, and visualization techniques.
Meet the children’s literature startup that wants to unseat Scholastic as the king of the book fair
Literati has spent years rebuilding the elementary school book fair into something closer to an art installation. Now, with an acquisition by private equity, it's ready to scale fast.
alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books
A curated list of best cuda programming books
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
LLMs in Production - Christopher Brousseau and Matthew Sharp
Learn how to put Large Language Model-based applications into production safely and efficiently.
Book Review: The Mind-Boggling Science of Enormous Numbers
In "Huge Numbers," mathematician Richard Elwes spotlights some of the largest numbers humans have ever contemplated.
Rearchitecting LLMs - Pere Martra
By default, general purpose LLMs are not optimized for specific domains and business goals. Using techniques like specialized fine-tuning, pruning unnecessary neural components, and knowledge distillation, you can rearchitect your models to cost less, run faster, and deliver…
Free Thermodynamics Textbook by Olivier Cleynen
Ten Books Worth Adding to Your Library
In my opinion, there are few investments more valuable than a good book.
Fifteen Websites Offering Free Downloadable Books, and More
As if you didn't already have enough on your reading list.
Understanding Quantum Technologies 2025
I am happy and relieved to release Understanding Quantum technologies 2025. It is the 8th edition of this book and the fifth in English. For the first time, I reduced its size, from 1,554 to 1,524 pag...
The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents
The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot, Brandy Jensen writes.
Electronic Texts of H.P. Lovecraft's Works
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or of the Voynich Manuscript—a bizarre 15th century text written in an uncrackable code; that you could solve centuries-old mysteries by asking them, “what were you thinking?” You might be…
We are all le Carré’s people now
Once again, John le Carré is back. The TV series inspired by his post-Cold War novel, The Night Manager, is returning to our screens on New Year’s Day. There’s an exhibition about his “tradecraft” on
Be Generous & Unique - Colossus
Kevin Kelly co-founded Wired magazine and is the author of the book Excellent Advice for Living. We cover his concept of the Technium, why rituals are an underappreciated part of society and family life, and the importance of developing your authentic self over a lifetime.
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65 Essential Children’s Books
Illustrated titles that teach kids to love literature
Do You Know What I Know?
Joshua Rothman writes about common knowledge and the book “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .,” by Steven Pinker.
Where to begin? Brown bagging is one of those social practices that continues to feel senseless even after it’s been explained.
Common knowledge, he explains, isn’t just what we know but what we know is known. It’s different from “mutual knowledge,” which is held by multiple people but not openly.
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?
Mary Roach’s New Book Replaceable You Explores Challenges in Replacing Body Parts
Mary Roach unpacks the millennia-long effort to replace failing body parts—and the reasons that modern medicine still struggles to match the original designs.
the-litte-book-of/linear-algebra: There is hardly any theory which is more elementary than linear algebra, in spite of the fact that…
There is hardly any theory which is more elementary than linear algebra, in spite of the fact that generations of professors and textbook writers have obscured its simplicity by preposterous calcul...
chiphuyen/aie-book: [WIP] Resources for AI engineers. Also contains supporting materials for the book AI Engineering (Chip Huyen, 2025)
[WIP] Resources for AI engineers. Also contains supporting materials for the book AI Engineering (Chip Huyen, 2025) - chiphuyen/aie-book
Seven Philosophy Books for Beginners: Where to Start
One especially appealing aspect of philosophy, as a field of study, is that you don't have to go anywhere to learn it but the library. And these days, you don't necessarily have to go there, now that so many philosophical texts have become freely available on the internet.