A story about "The Big U" — 6 years ago
Almost done with this. Doesn’t come close to Stephenson’s other books in my opinion.
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A story about "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals" — 6 years ago
I enjoyed and learned a lot from this book. A must read for anyone who liked or had doubts about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
A story about "The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)" — 5 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Lots of insight and ideas relevant to understanding the power and evolution of replicators.
Dennett’s afterword praising the book for being both a hard-core science book and a philosophy book is concise and highlights that this is what a science book should be like. I hope to re-read it.
A story about "The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)" — 6 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Bought this a couple of years back, but never got around to it. It’s near the top of my “I want to read this next” list.
A story about "The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction, and Emergence (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science)" — 6 years ago
This was one of the more difficult books I’ve read on the philosophy of science and especially emergence. Very rewarding read and one I plan to reference and reread in the future.
My synopsis of the central themes follows:
The text discusses “received” emergence vs. Batterman’s ideas on emergence. He asserts that the view should not be about the whole being greater than the parts but rather that it’s about asymptotic reasoning. Asymptotic reasoning is the process by which intertheoretic relationships are established.
Having theories at different levels modelling a system, asymptotic reasoning is used to identify the singular limiting theory that relates the two. This is “emergence”.
Emergence hence requires formalism at both “levels” of a system, questioning the ability to explain (or explain away) phenomena by resorting to their emergent properties.
A story about "True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier" — 6 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
An excellent short story (“True Names”) which also happens to be the first instance of cyberpunk – as far as I know, – preceding William Gibson’s Neuromancer. The essays that accompany Vinge’s short story discuss much that is relevant in cyberspace and it’s consequences on all facets of society including economics, legal systems and more.
A story about "Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms" — 6 years ago
A good book for a course in distributed systems, though some of the most interesting facets (details of transactional frameworks, replication systems) would be a good supplement.
A story about "Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms" — 6 years ago
For a graduate Distributed Systems course.
A story about "Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java" — 6 years ago
An ok aspect oriented programming tutorial/reference.
