Reading List

This is a living document (duh). I add things in sporadic bursts when my computer’s uptime scares me and it’s time to close all the tabs. I rarely (if ever) remove things.

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CS & Applied Math

General

• Mathematical Games (Wiki)
• Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people (Buterin)
• An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming (Hoare)
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend (Shirley, Black, Hollasch)
• The Competitive Programmer’s Handbook (Laaksonen)
• Mathematical Writing (Knuth et al.)
• Advanced Topics in Computer Science: A Theorist’s Toolkit (Princeton)
• A Course of Pure Mathematics (G. H. Hardy)
• The First 50 Million Prime Numbers (Zagier)
• Proof-Oriented Programming in F* (Swamy,Martinez,Rastogi)
• Numbers are Leaves (Christos)

Evolutionary Computation & AI/ML

• Competitive Coevolution for Defense and Security (Harris,Tauritz)

Software Engineering

• video An Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired from Permaculture (Devine Lu Linvega)
• video Weathering Software Winter (Devine Lu Linvega)
• video Stop Writing Dead Programs (Jack Rusher)
• Egoless Engineering (McKinley)
• Command Line Interface Guidelines (Prasad et al.)

Cryptography

• How to Share a Secret (Shamir)
• CS225: Pseudorandomness (Harvard)
• Pseudorandomness (Vadhan)
• Zero-knowledge proof (Wiki)
• How to Explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to Your Children (Quisquater et al.)
• Digital Signatures and How to Avoid Them (Madden)

Game & Decision Theory

• Game Theory Models of Peace and War (O’Neill)
• Moving Forward vs. Inflicting Costs in a Random-Walk Model of War (Nakao)
• The Secretary Problem (Wiki)
• Revisiting the Secretary Problem (Brams)
• Tragedy of the Anticommons (Wiki)
• The Mathematics of Poker (Chen, Ankenman)
• A Double Oracle Algorithm for Zero-Sum Security Games on Graphs (Jain et al.)
• From Battlefields to Elections: Winning Strategies of Blotto and Auditing Games (Behnezhad et al.)

Economics

Markets, Market Making, Mechanism Design

• On Path Independence (Buterin)
• Leaderless Auctions (Paradigm)
• Investments (Bodie, Kane, Marcus)
• Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders (Vickrey)
• Credible, Truthful, and Two-Round (Optimal) Auctions via Cryptographic Commitments (Ferreira)
• Concurrent Auctions Across the Supply Chain (Babaioff and Nisan)

Computational Social Choice

• Handbook of Computational Social Choice (Brandt et al.)
• Fair Division (Wiki)
• Fair Division (Klamler)
• Envy-free Cake Cutting (Wiki)
• Voting Methods (Math Libretexts)

Misc

• Information, Trade, and Common Knowledge/No Trade Theorems (Milgrom and Stokey)
• Contract Theory (Wiki)
• Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting (Park et al.)
• Coercion-Resistant Electronic Elections (Juels et al.)
• JCJ with Improved Verifiability Guarantees (Rønne)
• Quadriatic Payments: A Primer (Buterin)
• Networks, Crowds, and Markets (Easley, Klienberg)
• The Uma Optimistic Oracle Protocol

Lifestyle

Philosophy

• An Unreasonable Amount of Time (Pike)
• Don’t Play Near Black Holes (Troesh)
• Finite and Infinite Games (Carse)

Design

• The Monospace Web (Wickstrom)
• U.S. Graphics Company (Panchal)

Philosophy, Short Stories, Just for Fun

• The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Bostrom)
• The Library of Babel (Borges)
• Pascal’s Wager (Bostrom)
• Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency (Misra)
• I, Pencil (Read)
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Abbott)
• video Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (Pausch)
• Stories of Your Life and Others (Chiang)