Fun thoughts, articles, and books:

• STEM Research in China: Personal Observations  (very insightful observations from my PhD advisor)

• All things distributed and perhaps asynchronous: how distributed event driven system is applied everywhere and everyday in AWS. 

Control & Robotics:

• 300 years of optimal control

• Control: A Perspective

• Least-squares estimation: from Gauss to Kalman

• Event-Driven Control and Optimization in Hybrid Systems 

• In Defense of the Eight-Point Algorithm

• A Tour of Reinforcement Learning: The View from Continuous Control 

Machine Learning & AI:

• Spatial Transformer Networks 2016

• Finding Structure in Time 1990

Software Engineering:

• Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

• How Google Tests Software

• Just Say No to More End-to-End Tests

Money and Finance:

• Finance and the Good Society (a more positive view of finance)

• A random Walk Down Wall Street (Can you beat S&P 500?)

• The Psychology of Money (Surprisingly, wealth is more psychological than rational.)

Miscellaneous:

• Tips on Writing Papers With Mathematical Content 

• Would Tarzan believe in God? Conditions for the emergence of religious belief

• Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution

• Getting to Yes, negotiating agreement without giving in

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

• The Selfish Gene