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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