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Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by TMWNN »

Reading:

Craig, The Fall of Japan

Price, Battle of Britain Day: 15 September 1940

Pratchett, Discworld series (finished four volumes)

Recently finished:

Craig, Enemy at the Gates

MacGregor, Checkpoint Charlie

Jones, Colossus (Incredibly prescient 1966 novel predicting ASI; the 1970 film adaptation is better, but the novel has more insights into the AI's similarity with LLMs)

Suarez, Daemon

Moss, Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940

Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

Pascal, Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by pdinny »

jeksn wrote: post #31

I’ve been getting into Italo Calvino after reading Invisible Cities, which was great. Right now I’m reading The Baron in the Trees.

I'm a big Calvino fan and can thoroughly recommend Cosmicomics as a great collection of shorts. If you enjoy Calvino you may also enjoy Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges.

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by electricant »

jeksn wrote: post #31

I’ve been getting into Italo Calvino after reading Invisible Cities, which was great. Right now I’m reading The Baron in the Trees.

Calvino is one of my favorite writers. Let me recommend also: The castle of crossed destinies (the book that got me into tarots)

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by smokel »

"Journey to the Edge of Reason, The Life of Kurt Gödel", by Stephen Budiansky. Even though it contains an introduction to his proof of the Incompleteness Theorems, you won't learn all too much about logic or mathematics, but it sure paints an interesting picture of the people involved at the start of the 20th century.

"Silas Marner" by George Eliot. Has redefined humor for me.

"Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Optimization" by Warren B. Powell. I'm still not entirely sure what to think of his claims about unifying many scientific disciplines, but it sure is packed with a lot of information and theory.

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