What did you read this year?

This is my journey in books for 2020!
Mark’s
average rating for
2020
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
I read Nathan Lents' book Human Errors with great interest. This book goes over a variety of physiological and molecular errors in humans that are somewhat paradoxical: they make us, in a sense, significantly more vulnerable than our immediate animal cousins. In particular, writing this review from the vantage point of mid-2020, I found it fascinating that this book was published in 2018 and cautions us on how vulnerable the human species is to g
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I read Gregory Zuckerman's book, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, with great interest.
Before reading the book, my understanding of Jim Simons was that he was a person doing big data and data science before it was cool— in a wide-open "blue sea." Now, data science is popular on Wall Street, with many firms competing with each other—in a "red sea." I was eager to read the book to learn more about some of ...more
Before reading the book, my understanding of Jim Simons was that he was a person doing big data and data science before it was cool— in a wide-open "blue sea." Now, data science is popular on Wall Street, with many firms competing with each other—in a "red sea." I was eager to read the book to learn more about some of ...more