for someone who's got decent fair-ish math aptitude, intro to ML by @rasbt course is such a wonderful go-to resource for interview-preps. the right amounts of rigor/rigour and practicality. highly recommend.
1/n: There are some academic papers that are so brilliantly and so accessibly written and so universal in scope that they transcend disciplines and stand as timeless testaments to both great thinking and great writing. Here's a short personal selection:
Doing economics has made me actively worse at debating because it turns out most people don’t find “actually it’s complicated” to be an especially compelling argument
e/ia - Intelligence Amplification
- Does not seek to build superintelligent God entity that replaces humans.
- Builds “bicycle for the mind” tools that empower and extend the information processing capabilities of humans.
- Of all humans, not a top percentile.
- Faithful to computer pioneers Ashby, Licklider, Bush, Engelbart, ...