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Currently Reading

  • John H. Holland: Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)

    John H. Holland: Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)

  • Damien Challet: Minority Games: Interacting Agents in Financial Markets (Oxford Finance)

    Damien Challet: Minority Games: Interacting Agents in Financial Markets (Oxford Finance)

  • James Gardner: The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos

    James Gardner: The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos

  • Thomas M. Cover: Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)

    Thomas M. Cover: Elements of Information Theory (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)

  • Larry Harris: Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

    Larry Harris: Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

  • Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence

    Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence

  • George Stalk: Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win

    George Stalk: Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win

  • Jim Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

    Jim Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

  • Richard S. Sutton: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

    Richard S. Sutton: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

  • William Poundstone: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story Of The Scientific Betting System That Beat The Casinos And Wall Street

    William Poundstone: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story Of The Scientific Betting System That Beat The Casinos And Wall Street

  • Wolfgang Banzhaf: Genetic Programming : An Introduction : On the Automatic Evolution of Computer Programs and Its Applications (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)

    Wolfgang Banzhaf: Genetic Programming : An Introduction : On the Automatic Evolution of Computer Programs and Its Applications (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)

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