About me
Outside of work, I love to unwind with a good book, listen to podcasts and old Cantonese songs, or stay active by playing ping-pong and swimming.
Email: xieshenlixi [at] 163.com
WeChat: rickyxili
Some books I've read and highly recommend
Fiction
- The Last Question , by Isaac Asimov
- The Library of Babel , by Jorge Luis Borges
- All You Zombies , by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Black Sheep , by Italo Calvino
- The Black Cat , by Edgar Allan Poe
- Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four , by George Orwell
- Story of Your Life , by Ted Chiang
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , by Lewis Carroll
- The Secret Garden , by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Pride and Prejudice , by Jane Austen
- The Brothers Karamazov , by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 三体 , by 刘慈欣
Science
- An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications, by Ming Li and Paul Vitanyi
- Causality, by Judea Pearl
- An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence, by Marcus Hutter and David Quarel and Elliot Catt
- An Invitation to Applied Category Theory, by Brendan Fong and David I. Spivak