Category Archives: Book

Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire

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I don’t believe I am autistic, but I have a few friends who are on the spectrum, and I am occasionally assumed to be based on the manner of my expression (it’s an occupational hazard I suppose). Anyway I did have some interest in reading Dave Plummer‘s book Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire: Everything I know about Autism, ASD, and Asperger’s that I wish I’d known back then… This is just another one of those things on my very long list of things I would very much like to read but for which I just don’t have the time.

New segment for In The Lab With Jay Jay videos

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A while back now I had the good fortune to pick up Silicon Chip‘s library of old books. I didn’t get *all* of them, but I did get quite a lot.

I was thinking that as part of my In The Lab With Jay Jay videos, in future, I will tell you about one of these old books during the introduction to the video.

New books

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Ordered on Amazon today:

I’m not sure what to make of the fact that these books are nearly 20 years old… totally out of date, but all that is available? What’s up with that?

Large Language Models and The End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh

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Here’s an interesting talk about how we won’t need programmers very soon: Large Language Models and The End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh.

If refers to the following books:

Math homework

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I will let you in on a little secret: I love doing math homework. Always have, always will. I love the process. I love reading the problems, thinking of solutions, and checking the questions off one by one. Even when it’s easy, it’s still fun.

Just for fun I’ve gone back to my old high school math textbooks. I’m skipping years 7 and 8 and starting with year 9. Then I will do 10, 11, and 12, at the highest level.

At the moment I’m working through Australian Signpost Mathematics New South Wales 9 (5.1-5.3) Student Book, which is the year 9 textbook. I’m only up to page 10, fractions and ratios. I should work on it more than I do. Let’s see what I can do about that. :)

Netfilter and iptables

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This evening I read the iptables man page and Linux iptables Pocket Reference from cover-to-cover; my notes are here: Netfilter.

I think at this point I am ready to use iptables in anger for the first time in a long time, and the first time ever on a router.

However, before I take that on, I’m going to have a quick diversion into the following books, and then sleep, and I will do my iptables programming when I wake up tomorrow.

The Divided Brain

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Here is a presentation of the work of Iain McGilchrist: The Divided Brain.

McGilchrist has written a number of books, including: