As the year winds down, this week’s TAMIM Reading List reflects on progress, challenges, and mysteries that defined 2024. Explore the rise of driverless cars with Waymo and Reddit’s remarkable journey through the social media landscape. Dive into the utopian dreams of a “mad egghead” and the cutting-edge reality of AI-powered weapons. Revisit COVID-19’s impact through 17 pivotal charts, and unravel the financial puzzles surrounding MicroStrategy. Discover alarming data privacy concerns, tips on giving the perfect speech, and groundbreaking theories linking dark matter and dark energy. From teenage mathematicians exploring fractals to the evolving nature of our world, this list captures the spirit of curiosity and innovation.
📚 Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future
📚 The slow, steady, frustrating, relentless, remarkable rise of Reddit
📚 The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
📚 The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here
📚 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
📚 There’s a real math problem with MicroStrategy’s obscene valuation premium
📚 Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
📚 Could dark matter be the same thing as dark energy?
📚 Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal
