Sign in with Facebook
Rúnar’s 2021 Year in Books
Take a look at Rúnar’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
Rúnar Bjarnason’s Followers (119)
363 books
|
105 friends
728 books
|
20 friends
592 books
|
154 friends
209 books
|
4 friends
47 books
|
18 friends
218 books
|
144 friends
442 books
|
40 friends
53 books
|
94 friends
More friends…
Rúnar Bjarnason
Goodreads Author
Born
in Akureyri, Iceland
Twitter
Member Since
May 2012
More books by Rúnar Bjarnason…
A Comonad of Graph Decompositions
I want to talk about a comonad that came up at work the other day. Actually, two of them, as the data structure in question is a comonad in at least two ways, and the issue that came up is related to the difference between those two comonads.
This post is sort of a continuation of the Comonad Tutorial, and we can call this “part 3”. I’m going to assume the reader has a basic familiarity with comon
Read more of this blog post »
Rúnar’s Recent Updates
“Everything that lives is unique. It is unimaginable that two people, or two briar-roses, should be identical . . . If you attempt to erase the peculiarities and individuality of life by violence, then life itself must suffocate.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
“There is a terrible similarity between the principles of Fascism and those of contemporary physics. Fascism has rejected the concept of a separate individuality, the concept of ‘a man’, and operates only with vast aggregates. Contemporary physics speaks of the greater or lesser probability of occurrences within this or that aggregate of individual particles. And are not the terrible mechanics of Fascism founded on the principle of quantum politics, of political probability?”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
“Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
“These camps – with their streets and squares, their hospitals and flea markets, their crematoria and their stadiums – were the expanding cities of a new Europe.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
“After dancing all night at a New Year’s ball, a girl will be unable to say whether the time passed quickly or slowly. Similarly, a man who has done twenty-five years in the Schlüusselburg Prison will say: ‘I seem to have been a whole eternity in this fortress, and at the same time I only seem to have been here a few weeks.’ The night at the ball is full of looks, smiles, caresses, snatches of music, each of which takes place so swiftly as to leave no sense of duration in the girl’s consciousness. Taken together, however, these moments engender the sense of a long interval of time that contains all the joys of human existence. For the prisoner it is the exact opposite: his twenty-five years are composed of discrete intervals of time – from morning roll-call to evening roll-call, from breakfast to lunchtime – each of which seems unbearably long. But the twilight monotony of the months and years engenders a sense that time itself has contracted, has shrunk. And all this gives rise to the same sense of simultaneous quickness and endlessness felt by the girl at the ball.”
― Life and Fate
― Life and Fate
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 153216 members
— last activity 3 minutes ago
A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to ...more
Goodreads Developers
— 2788 members
— last activity Jul 31, 2022 05:36PM
Official group for developers on Goodreads to coordinate and build cool apps. For general Goodreads support, please visit our help page.
