Usman Khaliq

Usman Khaliq

Staff Data Scientist at Intuit

Reading Notes

Random musings, some more coherent than others, on books and papers that I have read.

Batman Year One

1 minutes read

The first thing that I noticed while reading through Batman: Year One was the uncanny resemblance between the Neo-noir themes of the comic and the overall to...

The Bitcoin Standard

4 minutes read

HODL

Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo

4 minutes read

It has been close to six months since my arrival in Sierra Leone. So far, the experience has been a very interesting, albeit at times a challenging one. Howe...

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

6 minutes read

A confession : I have an irrational fear of horror movies/books. While I appreciate the intricacies that are to be found in well written horror, particularly...

The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

11 minutes read

Recently, I have become increasingly interested in the Effective Altruism movement, and how it is advocating for a reboot in how we perceive our lives, caree...

Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos

9 minutes read

Quite often these days, one gets the picture that the big data/data science/artificial intelligence hype train is exponentially gathering steam. Although, if...

Nexus by Ramiz Naam

4 minutes read

Neuroscience is a fascinating subject. Out of all the branches of science, perhaps even more than the much touted Artificial Intelligence, recent advances in...

Poor Economics by Abhijeet Banerjee

7 minutes read

Poor Economics by Abhijeet Banerjee

Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie

1 minute read

Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie

The World is Flat by Thomas Freidman

5 minutes read

I came across Thomas Freidman’s heady bestseller while reading up on some of the work that Leila Janah is doing, the inspirational woman behind Samasource, a...

The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

less than 1 minute read

A primer on causal inference

The Way of Kings

1 minutes read

Sept 2022 - July 2024. Give or take 600 days, which is still only 60% of the total length of the Way of Kings(Book 1 of the Stormlight Archive). This is the ...

Warbearker by Brandon Sanderson

less than 1 minute read

A standalone novel in the Cosmere universe, Warbreaker is a fast paced read. It is set in the kingdom of Hallendren, where some mortals “Return” back after t...