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- Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- The Expanse (all of them)
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
And the best books on software development were:
- Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards and Neal Ford
- Multithreaded JavaScript by Thomas Hunter II and Bryan English
- The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
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Besides The City & The City I really enjoyed Kraken and Un Lun Dun by China Miéville. Kraken is the hunt for a giant squid after it vanished from a London museum. Un Lun Dun is a young adult story of two friends who end up in a whimsical version of London.
I'll have to check them out! I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.
Fiction I discovered and read Blake Crouch this year - Dark Matter - Recursion - Upgrade - Pines I also discovered and read - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - Gravity by Tess Gerritsen - A Man by, At the End of the Matinee Keiichiro Hirano It's between Recursion and Project Hail Mary for me. I am leaning more towards Recursion. Non-fiction I discovered and read the following this year - Deep Work by Cal Newport - The…
The Bible (ESV)
The biography went really deep into his art and pointed out what made it so special. As someone who knows nothing about art, this gave me a wonderful new perspective both on Da Vinci and on art in general.
quick shout-out to https://literal.club/ as a hopeful successor of GoodReads, which has been in a state of disrepair if not abandonware for several years now. Literal is a terrific product and I hope it gains traction. as for my own entries… - Lapvonia by Moshfegh and Hollow by Catling are both sort of magical-realism set in medieval European villages, which would normally be considered "fantasy" but I assure you are…
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I'll have to check them out! I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.
That's funny, I just added Disco Elysium to my Steam wish list yesterday.
https://pages.lip6.fr/Marek.Zawirski/papers/RR-7687.pdf
CRDTs get a lot of hype on HN, 95% of the time it's for collaborative editing. But they're much more than some JS library to build an app around - they're a formalism of distributed systems that are strongly eventually consistent. What this means is if the mathematical properties [0] of CRDTs hold, there's no conflicts, no rollbacks, no user intervention - provided the same data is received by every node (in any order, mind you), they will all be in an identical state without a consensus.
For me this is massive, and I'm convinced this has big industrial applications, ie distributed systems in domains where the source of truth is most naturally modelled as append only events. In this scenario, the whole database is a single CRDT.
Also - and I hope I'm not outing myself as a pleb here - but each time I re-read it I discover new things, stuff I might have glossed over, didn't fully understand, or didn't appreciate before.
So yeah, have to hand it to this paper. It's really broadened my horizons.
[0] way less scary than you think. If you're comfortable with first year abstract algebra, operations, sets, relations etc you'll be fine.