Seven books I keep close because I love them
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Seven books I keep close because I love them
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#2And I bet you won't guess what any of them are.
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#3Pleased to see Roget's thesaurus here. It's a fantastic resource without a great digital equivalent. I've found LLMs helpful in a pinch (and it's certainly better than a standard thesaurus), but Roget's is still the book I turn to for tricky word-picking problems.
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#4I just need The Wind in the Willows :)
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#5I’ve been told the Legacy Standard Bible is one where the translators tried to not use the same English word when the original Greek or Hebrew words are different.
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#6And I bet you won't guess what any of them are.
Number #8 will surprise you!
I keep a computer graphics book that I'm reading over and over again, just one chapter that is concerned with physically-based rendering. By now the theory is getting so ingrained I could write a path tracer in my sleep! But then again, I don't want to.
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#7was expecting umberto eco after the first few - I'm sure you've either read him or desperately should!
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#8A sequel that diverges from and dwarfs its predecessor -- Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (translated into English)
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816614028/a-thousand-plateaus...
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#10NIV is what I grew up with and I kind of tired of it because of that... I have a soft spot for the KJV/NKJV.