Outside of the comics section, this includes virtually nothing written by women. May be that there's lots of good and important stuff out there Bret is missing.
Bret Victor's favourite books
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Re: Bret Victor's favourite books
#52I really like "Reading Tip #1" in the "Links 2013" page, reproduced below: It's tempting to judge what you read: I agree with these statements, and I disagree with those. However, a great thinker who has spent decades on an unusual line of thought cannot induce their context into your head in a few pages. It’s almost certainly the case that you don’t fully understand their statements. Instead, you can say: I have now…
> I agree with these statements, and I disagree with those. I find both of these reactions to be equally subversive. Whenever I find myself agreeing with something, I'm unwilling to poke around for holes in arguments or question the accuracy of facts presented. Similarly, whenever I disagree with something, I'm unwilling to concede the strong points of an argument or approach the problem from the presented perspectiv…
Tha reasoning backward trick sounds very interesting. Certainly a cool idea I have to try!
Also, it sounds you might be interested in LessWrong.com - if you haven't stumbled upon it yourself already.
Re: Bret Victor's favourite books
#53In July 2012, it was announced that active development on Fortress would cease after a brief winding-down period, citing complications with using Fortress's type system on existing virtual machines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)
https://blogs.oracle.com/projectfortress/
https://java.net/downloads/projectfortress/reference.pdf
I'm just putting this here as Bret Victor's link no longer works.
Re: Bret Victor's favourite books
#54$13,000 for used copy of Art of Doing Science and Engineering http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/9056995006/ref=tmm_hr...
Or, free:
http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
But better yet, all his lectures from which the book is derived are on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4b-52jtos&list=PL2FF649D0C4...
Re: Bret Victor's favourite books
#55In case someone is looking for Hamming's Art of Science and Engineering book:
http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
And the entire series of lectures is on youtube:
Re: Bret Victor's favourite books
#56Literature is notably absent...
Yeah, for some reason it is culturally unacceptable in our society to claim that fiction literature is unimportant. We live in a society where it's fine to make shocking arguments about just about anything, but if anyone were to dare argue "What Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare had to say is pretty irrelevant and uninteresting at this point" they are a social pariah.
But by the same token is it not culturally unacceptable to say that science is irrelevant?
Re: Bret Victor's favourite books
#57I really enjoy Bret Victor's work, but I found the UX of the favorite books site really hard to navigate and enjoy.