https://m.stacker.news/25542
I started re-reading Eliezer Yudkowski’s rationalist Harry Potter fanfic, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It’s excellently written and starts out quite hilariously.
The most notable departure point is that Petunia Evans married a professor of biochemistry at Oxford, and so Harry Potter grew up learning science in a house full of books.
I don't know if it will be worth the try but I have just started to read it.
I don't like reading book reviews prior to reading them, so this is no different this time.
Really enjoying this at the moment. Especially the small story about Willie Ruff recording his French Horn at St Mark's Cathedral and being blown away by the reverb/echo. One recording of which can be heard on YouTube.
Tidy First by Kent Beck. It is a book about the software development process. Interestingly it contains a chapter titled A Dollar Today > A Dollar Tomorrow. Yeah, software development outside Bitcoin has still quite fiat mindset. In a bitcoin standard a bitcoin tomorrow will have more purchasing power than a bitcoin today and we will hopefully get better software...
Been reading for a while as it’s pretty painful. I haven’t bought a rechargeable battery since I started and don’t know what I’m going to do when this phone dies.
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Reading Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon. Really killer dialogue, but be prepared for lengthy tangents.
Not my favorite of his, but definitely entertaining.
The Crying Of Lot 49-most accessible. Gravity's Rainbow-Masterpiece
Lot 49 was the only one of his books I could handle in high school. Once I was able to appreciate Gravity's Rainbow, though, man what a ride.
Gravity's Rainbow is one of those books I still think about maybe once a week--even though last time I read it was like 10 years ago.
Correction- I haven't read it in almost 40 years.
I meant same here regarding your experience.
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I liked Mason & Dixon a ton. I'm about halfway through Bleeding Edge and it's just okay.
Mason and Dixon felt like his peak (and to be fair, it's a heck of a peak).
I'm re-reading Alas, Bablyon. An interesting post-apocalyptic book, published around 1960 or so. I enjoyed it, that's why the re-read.
Also if you're inclined towards prepping/survivalism, there are some good and maybe useful ideas in there.
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Enjoyed the first book in the series, and am just about to dive into this one.
https://m.stacker.news/25542 I started re-reading Eliezer Yudkowski’s rationalist Harry Potter fanfic, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It’s excellently written and starts out quite hilariously.
The most notable departure point is that Petunia Evans married a professor of biochemistry at Oxford, and so Harry Potter grew up learning science in a house full of books.
https://m.stacker.news/25526
I don't know if it will be worth the try but I have just started to read it. I don't like reading book reviews prior to reading them, so this is no different this time.
You can call me lazy. 😜
I'm reading Outdated by JP
https://m.stacker.news/25527
Really enjoying this at the moment. Especially the small story about Willie Ruff recording his French Horn at St Mark's Cathedral and being blown away by the reverb/echo. One recording of which can be heard on YouTube.
Tidy First by Kent Beck. It is a book about the software development process. Interestingly it contains a chapter titled A Dollar Today > A Dollar Tomorrow. Yeah, software development outside Bitcoin has still quite fiat mindset. In a bitcoin standard a bitcoin tomorrow will have more purchasing power than a bitcoin today and we will hopefully get better software...
Know the past to help predict the future!
https://m.stacker.news/25544
Cobalt Red
Been reading for a while as it’s pretty painful. I haven’t bought a rechargeable battery since I started and don’t know what I’m going to do when this phone dies.
'Techno-Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism' by Yanis Varoufakis. https://m.stacker.news/25529
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