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#122The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War, Brenan
http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Labyrinth-Account-Political-Ba...
Homage to Catalonia, Orwell http://www.amazon.com/Homage-Catalonia-George-Orwell/dp/0156...
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#123Ulysses , haha.
Ouch.
Not entirely ouch. Much like when I read Portrait of the Artist I am pressed between wanting to stab Joyce for having obnoxious and terrible worldviews and steal his flatcap for its clearly mystical powers of English wrangling.
I guess those aren't exactly mutually exclusive.
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#1241. Programming Clojure (Not going too well) 2. Refactoring your Wetware (This is a very good book) 3. SICP (Just started looking into this to see if I can attempt to write the code in Clojure)
I am half the way of SICP and I also have my hand on clojure. It would be a good experiment to solve the problems with clojure.
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#125Computational Pharmacokinetics by Anders Källén Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter Born to Win by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward
Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter How is it? please share your impressions.
I haven't liked it as much as GEB. At times, it strikes me as too clever (puns and autobiographical digressions all over the place). It's definitely interesting and thought-provoking, though. With translation as its main topic (not so interesting to me), it explores lots of tangents (of more interest to me): syntax and semantics, medium and message, constraint and discovery, all with loads of interesting examples. Most of all, it's a book about words, for people who love words. The main thing I get out of it is an appreciation for just how sophisticated the verbal part of the human mind is.
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#126Rereading How to Win Friends and Influence People (once again). That book never ages. May very well be the best book ever written. I'm guessing most of you have read it, but if you haven't, I urge you to order it right away! It will be your best purchase in a long time.
Also just finished Genome (http://www.amazon.com/Genome-Autobiography-Species-Chapters-...). Good read, but there are better books in the category.
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#127Computational Pharmacokinetics by Anders Källén Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter Born to Win by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward
> Computational Pharmacokinetics Woa, this sure sounds geeky. What is it about ?
It explains the mathematics describing drugs' passage into, through, and out of the body.
There are lots of books about pharmacokinetics, but this one is notable for being so clear, direct, precise, and readable. It explains the main causal factors, the not-so-obvious causal factors, the reasons behind peculiar notions in the field (e.g. a drug's "volume of distribution" might be much more than the volume of your body), and how to actually crunch the numbers. It doesn't just present results, it shows you the reasoning.
It's quite short, too: 170 pages. Nothing like those gigantic textbooks that say much less.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ayn Rand was a philosopher. And like most philosophers, she started out with some good ideas and over applied them to everything in life, which leads to some scary conclusions. My favorite Rand book was Anthem. It was short and therefore didn't have space to extrapolate Rand's ideas to their scary conclusion. I just finished reading Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. It is just as long and pompous as Atlas Shrugged, but…
I once listened to a 80-hour overview of the world's great philosophers, given by modern professors. What amazed me was how many of them came up with a good idea that was new and revolutionary -- and then spent the rest of their life taking the damn thing too far. I guess great people fall so much in love with their great ideas that it never occurs to them that the most important piece is finding the boundaries for w…
Link for the interview?
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#129Starship Troopers. Began and finished off 1984 after all the hubbub about it recently on HN.
Me too. Finished up to 9 chapters.
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#130Real World Haskell