Favourite things of 2015
This year I decided to get into Bayesianism, and actually applied it to matters of life and death.
This year I quit being an Arts boy.
Papers
Rabiner (1989), ‘A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications in speech recognition’ Johnson, (2010), ‘Case Studies in the Failure of Healthcare Information Systems’, http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/10900
Books
- Complete Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
- Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog
- Rationality: from A to Z by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- The God that Failed by various.
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- What If? by Randall Munroe
- The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
- Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology by various
- The Black Halo by Iain Crichton Smith
- The Plato Cult by David Stove
- Occasional Poets by various
- Algorithmics by David Harel
- Rip it Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds
- What the Hell are You Doing? by David Shrigley
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
- American Hippopotamus by Jon Mooallem
- Intuition Pumps by Daniel Dennett
- Non-materialist Physicalism by David Pearce
- The Hearts of Men by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Carry On, Jeeves & The Inimitable Jeeves by Wodehouse
- Rain by Don Paterson
- Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
- Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
- Why Freud Was Wrong by Richard Webster
- Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
- Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
- Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
Worst book: Authorship and the Films of David Lynch
Films / TV
- The Lobster
- Anomalisa
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Revenant
- Sicario
- The Hateful Eight
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The Martian
- Better Call Saul
- South Park Season 19
Albums
- Ba Power Ngoni Ba
- Currents Tame Impala
- Depression Cherry Beach House
- Divers Joanna Newsom
- Electric Ladyland [Redux] Magnetic Eye Records
- Exo Crystallis TNJX
- London Overgrown John Foxx
- The Wave Pictures Play Artistic Vice
- Ones and Sixes Low
- So The Flies Don’t Come Milo
- Another Time Another Day
- Electric Ladyland [redux] by Magnetic Eye Records
- Moon Colony Bloodbath by Darnielle and Vanderslice
- Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis”
- Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
- Tame Impala - Currents
- Björk - Vulnicura
- 공중도둑 [Mid-Air Thief] - 공중도덕 (Gongjoong Doduk)
- Iosonouncane - DIE
- John Foxx - London Overgrown
- Zarelli - Soft Rains
- Ibeyi - Ibeyi
Songs
- Stuck Up a Hornbeam,
- You Go Down Smooth,
- Milk and Honey,
- People Ii: reckoning,
- Betsy on the Roof