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It does seem like quite a lot of the original area has been lost > Five hundred years ago, the Atlantic Forest of Brazil covered approximately 330 million acres (about twice the si…

Has the name of the field changed to acoustic ecology now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_ecology I've been listening to this interview of Gordon Hempton and the whole fiel…

I really liked Andy Matuschak's article “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking” - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z7kEFe6NfUSgtaDuUjST1oczKKzQ... O…

Don't worry too much about prioritization if your goal from reading is to learn. Set aside some time and then pick whatever article/book you most feel like reading and just get goi…

https://hash.ai/ Hash is a platform for simulation and I think this kind of stuff will become increasingly important.

I would love to join a reading group (on slack or another messaging platform) on this book.

Thanks! This looks like what I will start with. Can't find your email in your profile, though.

That's great! I did not know that the exercises appeared in book form until I found it a used book store. Read through most of the lectures in undergrad/grad school but needs a rev…

I know a few people who have stayed in academia and done this. In my case, my partner is not in academia which makes it a bit easier.

Condensed matter physics PhD (2016) now working in the software industry as a data scientist. Focused on modelling/simulating materials during my thesis and realized that I loved t…

Oh wow! This looks like the physics book that I always wanted to read. Phd 2016 in condensed matter physics - now working in a mid-size (~600 people) software company as a data sci…

If you found Peter Senge's book practical you would probably like Thinking in Systems. It takes a few systems archetypes and explores them in reasonable detail and has charts of si…

While your comment about people picking on education does hold true, I don't think the way the child learns from her parents is similar to what is done at school. Here, the child t…

Are there any women in this thread? As a male, would love to know more about the female perspective.