Intellectual Shelf
Reading & Watching
A small collection of work I return to — books, articles, and talks that have shaped how I think about technology, method, and social science.
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Huang traces how GPU computing evolved from graphics rendering into the foundational infrastructure of modern AI — a useful frame for thinking about how technical systems quietly become load-bearing for entire fields of practice.
Anthropic Research · Lyttelton, Massenkoff & Wilmers
Survey evidence on who in the social sciences is adopting AI coding agents and who is not. The uneven uptake — concentrated among early-career researchers and those at prestigious institutions — says something important about how computational methods spread through academic disciplines.
Xiang Biao & Brian Hioe
Xiang Biao argues that treating one's own social position as an analytical resource — rather than a bias to be controlled for — is a rigorous and underused intellectual practice. A useful counter-weight to positivist assumptions about the researcher's relationship to their subject.