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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Paperback) by Roger Penrose bookshelves: currently-reading, math |
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) by Harold Abelson bookshelves: computer-science, currently-reading, priority |
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06/22
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The Search for Modern China (Paperback) by Jonathan D. Spence bookshelves: china, currently-reading, history |
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Paperback) by Roger Penrose bookshelves: currently-reading, math |
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The Fountainhead (Paperback) by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures (Paperback) by Sidney Coleman bookshelves: physics, to-read |
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Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time (Paperback) by Peter Galison bookshelves: history-of-science, to-read |
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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback) by Murray Gell-Mann bookshelves: physics |
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recommended for: anyone interested in information & complexity or an introduction ot modern physics
read in July, 2008 
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"Gell-Mann is a very intelligent man with wide-ranging interests but his attempts to treat so many of these interests at once really hinder ‘The Quark and The Jaguar’.
At times, this book presents fascinating and powerful new ways of looking at...more " |
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest (Paperback) by Lynne Cherry, Mark J. Plotkin bookshelves: biology, to-read |
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The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Hardcover) by Claude E Shannon, Shannon bookshelves: math, priority, to-read |
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On Intelligence (Paperback) by Jeff Hawkins bookshelves: intelligence |
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recommended for: anyone interested in the brain and artificial intelligence
read in October, 2007
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"Hawkins' theory is that the entire sensory cortex runs a single cortical algorithm to perform all of its sensory functions.
This single algorithm simply looks for patterns. Layers and layers of brain cells performing this pattern recognition resu...more " |
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Experimental Researches in Electricity (Paperback) by Michael Faraday bookshelves: history-of-science, to-read |
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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday (Hardcover) by Alan W. Hirshfeld bookshelves: history-of-science, to-read |
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That's pretty fair. Let me know if you come across anything science-related that you think I would enjoy. You would like fingerprints of the gods, which I just read. My basic strategy is to read like three or four novels and then a non-fiction book. It helps keep the pace/interest up.
Let a man dream...
My basic strategy is to power through as much non-fiction as possible and fall back on sci-fi/classics when I'm on the brink of insanity.
"to-read (581)" really? Are you being honest with yourself? :)
PS: Add more fiction.
That's pretty fair. Let me know if you come across anything science-related that you think I would enjoy. You would like fingerprints of the gods, which I just read. My basic strategy is to read like three or four novels and then a non-fiction book. It helps keep the pace/interest up.
Let a man dream...My basic strategy is to power through as much non-fiction as possible and fall back on sci-fi/classics when I'm on the brink of insanity.
"to-read (581)" really? Are you being honest with yourself? :)PS: Add more fiction.
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