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Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly an exciting field. We are making machines think like humans, mimic our actions, and solve problems more efficiently than us, at this at an unprecedented level and speed. But beyond the hype, I can’t help but wonder: does more efficiently mean better? Are some of our actions worthy of being mimicked? And should some of our ways of thinking about the world even be reinforced?

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If you're reading this post around its publishing date in April 2020, chances are you're at home, responsibly isolating yourself amid COVID-19 curfews around the world. What a better time than now to read actual books on data-related topics, that you've been postponing for too long in favor of short articles...

To give you some food for thought for these days, I curated a top 10 list of books straight from my bookshelves.

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As the year is almost over, it's time to review my one and only resolution that I've been sticking to for the past four years: the Goodreads Reading Challenge. For 2019 I set quite a reasonable goal of reading 24 books, an average of two per month.

To combine my love for literature and data analysis, I've created a dataset with key information about the books I've read this year and visualized it in an interactive dashboard with Google Data Studio.

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In Xenolinguistics, Diana Reed Slattery mixes research on language, psychedelics, and consciousness in a trippy cocktail which will warp your mind like the characters of Glide, the symbolic language she “downloaded” in an altered state of consciousness.