These books are mentioned in the video: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.
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Category Archives: Reading
Learning Software Architecture
Today via Lobsters: Learning Software Architecture. Of particular interest were some of the references at the bottom:
- Boundaries talk by Gary Bernhardt
- How to Test
- ∅MQ guide and, more generally, writings by Pieter Hintjens
- optimistic merging
- Reflections on a decade of coding by Jamii
- my links
- Ted Kaminski blog
- Software Engineering at Google
- Ousterhout’s The Philosophy of Software Design
- a couple of important names
Flash cards
Two videos today discussing flash cards. They discuss the use of Anki which you can get here: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci
I am interested in Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci but can’t prioritize it just at the moment…
Homework
This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always. Can’t wait to do it all again soon!
A film to check out is Materialists, it’s a bit of fun. Another interesting film is Conclave. And also The Green Knight.
The video where I explain my maths homework is here: Channel News #10: Happy New Year! | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay.
This song by the Sex Pistols from back in 1978 is Friggin’ in the Riggin’. Everyone should know this one!
You mentioned Blue Velvet by David Lynch.
I thought it was Cars that was by The Wachowskis but the film I was thinking of was Speed Racer.
You explained lens speed to me.
You mentioned about the film Pirates of Silicon Valley.
I created a bunch of applets to help me practice my arithmetic:
I mentioned about Chase Hughes. He has a bunch of interesting videos. I particularly enjoyed this one: How to WIN the Game of Earth. If you have more time this one is also good: How They Broke us All.
I mentioned I am reading the “classics”. In this case classic open source software, the details are here: Classics.
I mentioned about Ryan Bush who is the person behind Designing the Mind.
The word superordinate means both “of higher rank, status, or value” and “of or being the relation of a broader category to a narrower category that it encompasses, such as metal in relation to iron.”
I mentioned this comic about David Hume: David Hume on Creativity. The idea is that all ideas are combinations and relations of antecedent ideas and there isn’t any genuine “creativity”. Of course that would imply some type of axiomatic ideas or else you could never break into the system…
Steal this stuff
Two books brought to my attention today that I don’t presently have time to read, but figured I should make a note: Steal This Book and Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won’t Tell You About the Internet.
How far back in time can you understand English?
My friend posted this on IRC today: How far back in time can you understand English?
How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code (hint: it’s Waterfall!)
In my feed today: How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code. He separates research, planning, and implementation phases, as he says: “Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way.”
I might be the first to point out: this is Waterfall! Micro-waterfall?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
This via Hacker News today: The Feynman Lectures on Physics. It’s a little bit annoying they use JavaScript instead of links to try and make it annoying/difficult for you to download the whole thing.
Semantic Compression
Casey Muratori explains his approach to not-so-object-oriented design (he calls it procedurally-oriented) and refactoring (he calls it compression): Semantic Compression.
Today I added procedurally-oriented to my spell check.