Tagged “books”
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
Christian Keil's site
reading list portfolio page
An introduction to graph theory (pdf)
Graduate-level introduction to graph theory, for Math 530 in Spring 2022 at Drexel University
An introduction to graph theory
Atlas of Anomalous AI
Pragmatics of human communication : a study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes
Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
How Should One Read a Book?
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 Well
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.
Book recs from Demis Hassabis (CEO of Deepmind)
- Permutation City, by Greg Egan
- Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch
- Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz
The He-Man Effect
Subtitle "How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood".
Recommdations for starting a bookshelf
Pricing Money
highlighting new additions in green is cool.
Quantum Computing since Democritus
Remote Communication Concepts
High Performance Browser Networking
one to print out and read in a cabin
Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into their patients’ worlds
Perceptrons: an introduction to computational geometry
Core ideas from The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
English in the Real World
Philosophical Investigations
Twitter criticism of The Body Keeps the Score
and some alternative suggestions on the topic
You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Sarah Drasner 2022 Book Recommendations
Quite fantastic range in there. Just got Remarkably Bright Creatures
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Time of Your Life
The Books We Read Too Late
Naming and Necessity
By the late Saul Kripke.
Sophie Roell On Books
Focal Point
.1% improvement per day is apparently 43% per year
Manoj Arora's Reviews > The One Thing
Long enough checklist that I don't think I need to read the book.
The map is not the territory
When map and terrain disagree, believe terrain
We Are All Nerds: The Literary Works of Neal Stephenson
Geoff Dyer - The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings
Books That Changed How I Hear Music | Hacker News
The link
The list:
- Hyde - The Gift
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow
- Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
- Rene Girard - Violence and the Sacred
- Susan Sontag - On Photography
- Peter Kingsley - Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
- Jessie L. Weston - From Ritual to Romance
- Henry Louis Gates - The Signifying Monkey
- Robert Graves - The White Goddess
- Camille Paglia - Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
- Mircea Eliade - Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
- F.M. Caswell - The Slave Girls of Baghdad
The Alchemy Of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World But Fueled the Rise of Hitler
Recommended from Friedberg when talking about fertilisers
The Empty Space : Brook, Peter : 9780141189222
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).
Improving Almost Anything: Ideas and Essays, Revised Edition
The Ministry for the Future
Words And Music
bunch of recs for books about music
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Mentioned in Don't be that open source user
book notes | Derek Sivers
Every Good Boy Does Fine | Jeremy Denk | ISBN 9780812995985
A love story in music lessons
The Dorito Effect - the story of food through the lens of flavor
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?
Tyler Cowen on Reading
years worth of book recommendations in an hour
A Stanford Psychologist Says He’s Cracked the Code of One-Hit Wonders
Interesting take on initial novelty (establishing a genre or crossover) followed by then staying in that same style
Amazon.com: Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise
The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk
What Makes a Great Opening Line?
Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats : Hacker News
Ian Rankin on Patricia Highsmith’s hunger for love and thought
The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively: Kashdan, T
The Right to Repair
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
From CWT with Stewart Brand
Living on 24 Hours a Day
Science fiction book recommendations
The Etherington Brothers
how to think about drawing
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Books I loved reading this year. Bill Gates, 2021
He has written more reviews than I have read books this year..
You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation
Reading this I thought "oh this sounds a lot like Surveillance Capitalism", then checked the author
Life after Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy (Lecture Notes in Energy Book 81)
Photos are too flattering now
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”
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
Web Browser Engineering
BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed
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.
Obscure book recommendation thread
The Pleasures of Tsundoku, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles
This post made me feel like an amateur. I have only 3, relatively small book piles.
Books by R. Murray Schafer
Can't exactly remember where I found this, but some interesting looking publications on sound and music
'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality
The review alone was very well written, quite excited for the book
Armada reviewed
The Bet, by Anton Chekhov
Tyler Cowen Embraces the Hopeful Future – Law & Liberty
Notes from an interview over dinner at Mama Chang
Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History (Ep. 128)
Capitalism after Covid : Conversations with 21 Economists
Excerpt from We Learn Nothing, by Tim Kreider
The Best Books On Biotechnology: The Promise And Perils Of Engineering Life
Great way to find new books - specific curated lists.
The Bitcoin Standard - a critical review
Madeline Miller, interviewed by Omar El Akkad
Fantastic interview on her background and reasons she had wanted to tell the story
Pascal's Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
Economics in One Lesson
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
Book Review: The Precipice
How to read self-help
Game AI Pro
All three volumes of Game AI Pro available online! For free!
Free Audio Books : Download Great Books for Free : Hacker News
Some great suggestions - assessing quality of free stuff is always tricky (esp audio), so a high-level filter is a good start
Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
I particularly like the interlude:
no, you can't randomly cite 2,000-page-long books and hope nobody will read them
Ask HN: How Do You Read?
Solid advice on reading, annotating, and selecting
How I Read
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