The Joy of Reading Books You Don’t Entirely Understand
Top comment from HN thread had funny timing with Ask HN: What book bit, stung and shook you deeply?
Top comment from HN thread had funny timing with Ask HN: What book bit, stung and shook you deeply?
Also an interview with the author
The missing manual for HTMX
stats on publishing and authors from Penguin vs. DOJ.
Alex recommends
And in the video game library.
Really good writeup; EPUB is a zip file with a standard structure.
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Graduate-level introduction to graph theory, for Math 530 in Spring 2022 at Drexel University
It depends on the book. Talks about different authors approaches to describing the same scene; the focus is completely different for each, and so each would be read very differently.
Interesting to re-read How I read and see if anything has changed.
Reading is letting someone else model the world for you. This is an act of intimacy. When the author is morose, you become morose. When he is mirthful, eventually you may share in it. And after finishing a very good book one is driven a little mad, forced to return from a world that no one nearby has witnessed.
Subtitle "How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood".
highlighting new additions in green is cool.
one to print out and read in a cabin
and some alternative suggestions on the topic
Quite fantastic range in there. Just got Remarkably Bright Creatures
By the late Saul Kripke.
.1% improvement per day is apparently 43% per year
Long enough checklist that I don't think I need to read the book.
When map and terrain disagree, believe terrain
The link
The list:
Recommended from Friedberg when talking about fertilisers
Book rec on MR said "it has the added benefit of being quite short". Which was funny from the director of all 5.5 hours of The Mahabharata (1989).
bunch of recs for books about music
Mentioned in Don't be that open source user
A love story in music lessons
Maybe this is what Flavortown is all about.
Why, I wondered, does flavor have such a hold over us? And why do so many scientists carry on as though nutrition starts from the neck down, that what truly matters in food is carbs, protein and fat, and flavor is just some meaningless and frivolous indulgence?
Our flavor sensing equipment—the nose and mouth—takes up more DNA than any other bodily system. Why is there so much DNA devoted to a sense we tend to think of as superfluous?
years worth of book recommendations in an hour
Interesting take on initial novelty (establishing a genre or crossover) followed by then staying in that same style
From CWT with Stewart Brand
how to think about drawing
He has written more reviews than I have read books this year..
Reading this I thought "oh this sounds a lot like Surveillance Capitalism", then checked the author
Article does kinda go on a bit of a nostalgia trip. I still manage to take plenty of shit photos
Good book rec in the comments for Susan Sontag’s “On Photography”
Would like to see more of this kind of write up - description and onboarding experience of a possible alternative to goodreads. Some great explanations in there - account setup, importing CSVs from other places, overview of features.
This post made me feel like an amateur. I have only 3, relatively small book piles.
Can't exactly remember where I found this, but some interesting looking publications on sound and music
The review alone was very well written, quite excited for the book
Notes from an interview over dinner at Mama Chang
Great way to find new books - specific curated lists.
Fantastic interview on her background and reasons she had wanted to tell the story
It is a long lesson that I am still not through, will see if it can live up to the bold claim of its title
All three volumes of Game AI Pro available online! For free!
Some great suggestions - assessing quality of free stuff is always tricky (esp audio), so a high-level filter is a good start
I particularly like the interlude:
no, you can't randomly cite 2,000-page-long books and hope nobody will read them
Solid advice on reading, annotating, and selecting
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