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Tech Reading List
📚 A growing list of interesting academic literature. Want to add to your reading list? I recommend USENIX and CHI papers to get started.
AI
On the Measure of Intelligence
#AI
#AGI
#ARC
{
"title": "On the Measure of Intelligence",
"category": "AI",
"summary": "Chollet introduces the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) as a general intelligence benchmark to evaluate human-like fluid intelligence.",
"takeaway": "Achieving true AGI requires a pivot from skill-based benchmarks toward evaluating broad generalization and information efficiency.",
"link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547"
}
Security
Cognitive Triaging of Phishing Attacks
#Cognitive Science
#Cyber Security
{
"title": "Cognitive Triaging of Phishing Attacks",
"category": "Security",
"summary": "Introduces Cialdini's principles of persuasion as an evaluation method for cognitive triggers found in phishing emails.",
"takeaway": "Understanding the underlying aspects of human psychology helps us gain insights into building phishing resistance.",
"link": "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19-van_der_heijden.pdf"
}
HCI
Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research
#Human-Computer Interaction
#Cognitive Science
#User Experience Design
{
"title": "Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research",
"category": "HCI",
"summary": "The distributed cognition framework posits that cognitive processes are not bounded by the individual's brain but are extended across people, tools, artifacts, and the environment.",
"takeaway": "Conceptualizing the environment as an active component of the cognitive system enables designers to facilitate more effective collaboration, minimize user cognitive load, and engineer interfaces that act as seamless augmentations of human intelligence.",
"link": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/353485.353487"
}
Systems
The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
#Search Engine
#PageRank
#Systems
{
"title": "The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine",
"category": "Systems",
"summary": "A classic paper by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page that introduces Google, a prototype search engine designed to efficiently crawl and index the Web.",
"takeaway": "The Google algorithm is not merely a ranking formula, but a complete system architecture designed to store, index, and crawl massive datasets.",
"link": "https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/Brin98Anatomy.pdf"
}
AI
Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead
#AI
#XAI
#Explainable Artificial Intelligence
{
"title": "Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead",
"category": "AI",
"summary": "There are great risks introduced when there is a reliance on black-box models, particularly in high-stakes domains where algorithmic decisions directly impact human welfare.",
"takeaway": "Rudin advocates for interpretable model design which ensures safety and trust for high-stakes decisions.",
"link": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.10154"
}
HCI
The Design of Everyday Things
#User Experience Design
#HCI
#Usability
{
"title": "The Design of Everyday Things",
"category": "HCI",
"summary": "Norman introduces core principles of cognitive psychology to explain how products should be designed to be intuitive, accessible, and user-friendly.",
"takeaway": "Good design makes the right action easy and the wrong action difficult by providing clear feedback and visible controls, ultimately reducing the cognitive load on the user.",
"link": "https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-design-of-everyday-things/oclc/860902830"
}