Ask HN: What are you reading right now? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading right now?

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Post by idoh » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:30 PM UTC

nhebb wrote: post #20

- *Built to Last* - Collins and Porras - *The Ruby Programming Language* - Flanagan and Matz - *_Whys Poignant Guide to Ruby* - _Why the Lucky Stiff

Regarding Built to Last make sure to check out how visionary the companies profiled later turned to be.

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading right now?

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Post by pfarrell » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:30 PM UTC

brianmckenzie wrote: post #56

I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter

I Is A strange Loop ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading right now?

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Post by davi » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:32 PM UTC

‘Where’ and ‘what’ in the whisker sensorimotor system

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/ahissar/new_page...

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading right now?

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Post by rick_2047 » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:32 PM UTC

jeebusroxors wrote: post #13

Omnivore's Dilemma I tried Godel Escher Bach but after a few pages of his pq system I couldn't take it any more and walked away. Is this something I need to endure or am I not "getting it"?

I think it covers diverse explanation of the same theme i.e. can consciousness be generated out of unconscious (something like that). But I found the pq system quite interesting. BTW if you are having problem with that you can skip it, Hofstadter takes his sweet time explaining what formal systems is.