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Other interests
(To be extended)
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Sports:
- Running
- Juggling
- Hiking: Unfortunately, I currently live rather far from any mountains.
I enjoyed hiking in the Alps many times,
further in several places in Japan, in Hong Kong, in Croatia, in Finland,
close to Paris, around Rio de Janeiro, in
northern Portugal, and in northern Thailand.
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Literature:
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- Haruki Murakami: (for instance) 'Norwegian Wood', 'South of the border, west of the sun', 'Sputnik sweetheart'
- Milan Kundera: 'The unbearable lightness of being'
- Robert M. Sapolsky: 'Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst'
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- David Goggins: Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
- Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Yasunari Kawabata: 'Snow Country'
- Robert M. Sapolsky: 'Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst'
- William Gibson: 'Burning Chrome'
- Gabriel García Márquez: 'One hundred years of solitude'
- Yukio Mishima: 'The priest of Shiga Temple and his love'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'White nights'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'Notes from underground'
- Paul Kalanithi: 'When breath becomes air'
- Ralph Leighton and Richard Feynman: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!'
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Learning:
- psychology and biology of learning and problem solving
- Podcast: Learning for infinity
- Book: Deep work by Cal Newport
- The literature on mathematical problem solving, starting with Pólya's 'How to solve it'
- artificial intelligence, in particular deep reinforcement learning
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