I mentioned to a friend that I thought it was a romantic idea to learn Kanji, and I would very much like to, but I just don’t have time. My friend recommended the Genki Textbook. So this note is just for the record. When it comes to learning Japanese I suppose no one will be surprised to know that there are a lot of options.
I’ve got a kickass collection of old engineering books:
Yesterday I read The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life by Epictetus and translated by Sam Torode which I got for free courtesy of my Kindle Unlimited subscription. A very easy read (you can read it in one hour) and full of great and challenging ideas.
So I’m off to read the LibreOffice 7.3 API Documentation. Supported macro languages include a form of BASIC and a form of JavaScript. Gonna try JavaScript… my goal is to generate the ASCII tables for my book, programmatically, as it were.
Well this didn’t work. It was my first attempt at putting an ASCII chart into my book. (Because what the world needs is more books with ASCII tables in them!) I tried using the output of my ascii.php program. Tomorrow I will redo as vector graphics using Inkscape.
Gonna pump this tome:
So I got myself a copy of this Digi-Key Innovation Handbook and this Pocket Ref – 4th Edition – by Thomas J. Glover. The latter helped me discover Desk Ref, which I also got. :P
So I’m reading Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. For my later reference, the hats are:
So the late Hans Camenzind is the guy who invented the venerable 555 timer. He wrote two books I’m interested in:
I’m reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems, wherein the authors say:
Data is stored in a table of relations (rows), and each relation contains multiple fields (columns); see Figure 5-7. Note that we use the terms column and field interchangeably throughout this book.
There are two mistakes. The first is that tables are relations, rows are tuples. The second is that a field is the intersection of a row and a column, columns and fields are different things.
I have to wonder what business the authors have publishing a book on data engineering while failing to know such basic things.