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voisin wrote: post #223
andrei_says_ wrote: post #216

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Did you experience a permanent shift in body posture, alignment, or chronic tension?

No I wouldn’t say so. I got stronger but as I started running daily my flexibility has reduced again (lots of hamstring and hip flexor tightness!). I would say it was a permanent shift in that I haven’t had a panic attack since.

My experience also with Yoga - it’s a daily practice.

An interesting thought passed onto my by my teacher - all body tensions are tensions of the mind. Hatha Ying’s reaches to the mind through the body. With practice you learn to release faster. With regular practice your baseline changes.

The habit of letting go, continuously, in the body, brings up the possibility to release aspects that are seen as mind based.

Also, the mind insists that body and mind are separate but in practice they are not.

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Post by an_aparallel »

usednet wrote: post #68

“Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche” by Ethan Watters. I have been chronically depressed since I was 6 years old. I have had suicidal tendencies as long as I can recall being sentient. I would estimate this book singlehandedly cured 90% of my mental “disorders”. If you have ever suffered from depression or any “mental disorder” you will thank me after reading it, trust me.

thanks for posting about this - this really looks incredible!

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Post by _iyhy »

agomez314 wrote: post #93

- Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas , because he brings history to life and the story of the Spanish and the Mexica is stranger than fiction, more subtle and terrible than you might think, and has many lessons on human behavior applicable to today. - Ecclesiastes by Qoheleth: In my opinion, superior to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. "Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink you…

TOC by Sipser is incorrect at some points, especially in Push Down Automata. I will instead recommend the `Automata Theory Language & Computation` by Ullman et al.

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Post by 2rsf »

bobbykrk wrote: post #74

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch and The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Liu Cixin. I especially recommend reading this combination. Both books fill up with optimism about humanity. First one by providing framework for infinite progress of humankind. (written by acknowledged quantum physics professor). Second one by by outlining how we can overcome difficulties on the way (written by talented Chinese science…

I got stuck in the second book of the Trilogy, it's not as flowing as the first book

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Post by robin_reala »

bouvin wrote: post #11

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton [1]. A haunting and disturbing account powerfully told and rendered. Beaton is well known for Hark! A Vagrant, but this is her best work to date. The Kalevala [2]. I am familiar with the Eddas, the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and the Epic of Gilgamesh, but the Finnish national epos was beautiful and refreshingly different. While I'm sure the English translation pales next…

There were a few different PD translations to pick from when I did that edition of Kalevala, including a prose version. I don’t speak Finnish, but I picked the one that retained the Kalevala-meter and seemed to read the most lyrically. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it!

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Post by chadoverfl0w »

Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems by Kenneth P. Birman: gave me the same effect that the people who read DDIA/Designing Data Intensive Applications claimed it gave them.

I first tried reading DDIA before it since it was newer and it had more hype. But DDIA is so dense that most of the things went over my head. Then I came across Ken Birman's book and I found it easier to follow. Although it had a hundred pages more than DDIA, it doesnt cover as much ground such as it didnt mention object storages. The niche topics were also better in DDIA, such as error correction schemes was only mentioned once in Birman's book. DDIA seems to be more complete. So I'll re-read DDIA again next year.

Harassment Architecture: saw it on Amazon and I could never understand the humor behind the reviews for the book. So I tried a few pages, and something about it was gripping. All I could say is that I've never read anything like it.

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Post by hazmazlaz »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #64

Probably not a classic for the ages, but I enjoyed the new Max Brooks novel, Devolution . It does for Bigfoot what World War Z (the book, not the film) did for zombies by injecting a bit of versimilitude and detail stolen from reality. Freeze Frame Revolution by Peter Watts combines epic mind bending ideas with some hard sci-fi details. Piranesi by Susanna Clark was very Iain (M) Banks style epic fantasy.

Seconding Devolution, it's one of my favorite horror novels!
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