Halfway through SICP, which of course is excellent,
The Brothers Karamazov, and
The Structure of Magic: NLP Change Patterns.
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#202Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb - Rhodes Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Thaler & Sunstein Factorization Methods for Discrete Sequential Estimation - Bierman
If you really want a doorstop of a tome on nuclear weapons, checkout Rhodes' other book:
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/0...
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#203Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
I'm also:
1) slowly working through F. Copleston's History of Philosophy Volume 1: Greece and Rome while reading selections of the philosophers he discusses
2) reading daily an article or piece from Lapham's Quarterly, and
3) reading almost daily 0.5-1 law from Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power
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#204Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis.
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#205Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Histoire d'O by Pauline Réage My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski (This one seems to be taking me forever, even though it's entertaining. Biographies are not really my thing.)
I am also reading Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. Before that I read Norweigan Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End Of The World by Murakami, as well as Godel, Escher, Bach which took forever (I read on the subway).
Here's an interesting interview with Mr. Murakami: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2/the-art-of-fictio...
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#206Last few books:
Wind-Up Girl - Great postapocalyptic novel where the scarcity of 'calories' drives innovation and economy. A cool take on cyberpunk... biopunk?
The Shallows (What the internet is doing to our brains) - Great book, though a few chapters are kinda slow. Whether you believe the studies or not, it's full of excellent anecdotes about the history of book publishing, tv, etc.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Great story of post-wwii england written entirely via letters.
The Secret Lives of People in Love - Extremely beautiful prose. Each story is 5-6 pages.
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#207"Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran. It presupposes no knowledge of statistics or machine learning and focuses on 1) what machine learning technique is probably best in a given situation and 2) how to implement it in Python.
My only complaint is it does completely skip over theory. That makes it accessible to a wider audience (I have a degree in literature) but he misses the opportunity of helping out people who are trying to build a better theoretical foundation or are learning higher math / mathematical notation.
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#208Last few books: Wind-Up Girl - Great postapocalyptic novel where the scarcity of 'calories' drives innovation and economy. A cool take on cyberpunk... biopunk? The Shallows (What the internet is doing to our brains) - Great book, though a few chapters are kinda slow. Whether you believe the studies or not, it's full of excellent anecdotes about the history of book publishing, tv, etc. The Guernsey Literary and Potato…
Big +1 for Windup Girl, best SF book I have read in a long time
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#209The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Timothy Gowers, ed)
Jennifer Government (by Max Barry)
The Supernaturalist (by Eoin Colfer)
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#210Right now, Charlie Stross Wireless , a short story collection. However, what I'm going to read very shortly will be Moby-Dick for the third time; my daughter just read it in her high school English class and it became clear to me that it's time to read it again. Good Lord, that man could turn a phrase.
Awesome. I'm a huge fan of Stross. "Missile Gap" was my favorite story in that collection. "Accelerando" is his best novel by far, IMO. Check it out if you haven't already.
I loved Accelerando but found his other novels to be not nearly as visionary or entertaining