Today I discovered Newton’s own annotated copy of his Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica.
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Category Archives: Reading
Altronics catalog
Today my free copy of the Altronics catalog arrived. This is low-tech, but still the best way to keep up to date with the state of the art: just read the catalog from cover to cover!
Learning Clojure
I thought I might start with some of Paul Graham’s famous papers which aren’t about Clojure per se, but are about Lisp:
- Revenge of the Nerds
- The Roots of Lisp
- What Made Lisp Different
- Fortran
- Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz
Also his book On Lisp is of interest and is available free online these days.
And then the Arc language tutorial, which is also not Clojure, but looks like an interesting Lisp.
Then I will read the following books, in this order:
- Programming Clojure
- Getting Clojure: Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time
- Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure: Write Lean Programs for the JVM
- Clojure for the Brave and True: Learn the Ultimate Language and Become a Better Programmer
This is, of course, a silly amount of reading. Let’s see how I go.
The jank programming language
Today I learned about the jank programming language. It’s Clojure, but on the metal, not the JVM.
Old Book Teardown #7: Engineering Electronics with Industrial Applications and Control (1957)
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Silly Job Title: Electron Enchanter
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In this video I tear down Engineering Electronics with Industrial Applications and Control by John D. Ryder. This book was published in the USA in 1957. The book comprises 666 pages and is chock full of schematics with old vacuum tubes and photos from old Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes (CROs).
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Embedded Systems with ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers in Assembly Language and C
Today I learned about Embedded Systems with ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers in Assembly Language and C (Fourth Edition) by Yifeng Zhu while watching Lecture 9: Interrupts on YouTube. The full list of associated lectures are here: Short Lectures.
Descent3 Source Code
Today on lobsters there was a link to the Descent3 Source Code. Very cool.
You can trust this article because it’s written by academics
I just needed to make a note of this unironic statement which I read here:
Claudius Ptolemaeus, Almagestum, 1515
Wow. On Wikipedia you can download a 1515 Latin translation of the Almagest: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Almagestum, 1515.
I was able to read this file on my Debian workstation after installing the package djview4.
Extra Content #7: The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming
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In this video I pull the floppy disk out of the cover of my copy of The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition).
I have this wonderful old book The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition). It was published in 1997 but is still available for purchase through Amazon.
The book comes with a floppy disk (that’s right: a floppy disk!). I had to buy a USB floppy disk drive to read it. I have made the content from the disk available in a tarball, here: scsi.tgz.
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