The Joy of Abstraction

1. Why Machines Learn - Anil Ananthaswamy Fantastic exposition of machine learning. The author does an amazing job of bringing a technical subject down to an easily readable level. 2. The Joy of Abstraction - Eugenia Cheng Similar to the above review. I never thought Category Theory could be made so easily readable! 3. A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton Small, compact book. A quick interesting jaunnt through the history of philosophy. Entertaining and educational!

I am currently reading The Joy of Abstraction. This is a fine book. But what this book needed is a good editor. Most space of most chapters of the book is written like a preface. This book also suffers from what many technical books suffers from- uneven assumption of background. While some easy, trivial part is explained with more space, more hand-holding, harder parts receive briefer, relatively unfriendlier treatment. Despite these flaws, the book is great.