Saturday, August 31, 2024

War-time and Spy Books

Exile's Return

cowley - killing thatcher (doug)

Seventeen Moments of Spring (soviet spy)

(done) operation mince meat


Sunday, June 16, 2024

Food and Cooking - recipes

from Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain

Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. 

Nicolas Freeling's The Kitchen, 

David Blum's Flash in the Pan, 

the Batterberrys' fine account of American restaurant history, On the Town in New York, 

Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel.

Read the old masters: Escoffier, Bocuse et al.

as well as the Young Turks: Keller, Marco-Pierre White

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Jamie Oliver recipes

Caponata - aubergine stew

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/incredible-sicilian-aubergine-stew-caponata/



Sunday, April 28, 2024

Thursday, April 11, 2024

AI: algorithms


K-Means clustering [can be expensive]

- elbow method - calc how many clusters, but can be expsensive

alt: DBSCAN which calculates how many clusters to use (density-based clustering non-parametric algorithm)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBSCAN



Tuesday, April 9, 2024

books read by Jordan Peterson

the parasitic mind

return of the god hypothesis

the myth of mental illness

factfulness

east of eden

the madness of crowds

the rational optimist

an anthropologist on mars