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Re:Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:30PM (#15157187)
Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words
https://books.google.com/books/about/Rational_Meaning.html?i...
Propagator Networks: Time for a Revolution [pdf]
Ask HN: Elaborate on this passage from Alan Kay's STEPS write-up
A Significant Problem Still To Be Solved--Massively scalable intermodule coordination and communication has not been achieved via any means in personal or any other kind of computing.
Food: Weapon of MASS Destruction
Ask HN: Gift for a 11-year-old hacker
My sister is a bright, self-motivated, girl that has taught herself HTML and CSS, but hasn't learned a real programming language yet. She still doesn't grasp the concept of a function, which is understandable at her age. There's lots of books on CS that I'd love to give her, but that she's too young for. Any suggestions?
The Voegelin Enigma
Empirical Findings of 'The Nature of Order' [pdf]
Alexander Grothendieck: A Country Known Only by Name
Did we come from pigs?
Re:Plato knew a lot about behavioural economics
on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:27PM (#14354576)
Plato was not doing 'behavioral economics.' This is so dumb. Academia is broken.
Optalsys: Super Computer with Optical Computing
Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014)
Dr. Heinz Wolff on Optical Computing
Patterns in Network Architecture
John Day: Connected Communities Need Strong Foundations [skip to 34:00]
Alan Kay: Is “Software Engineering” an Oxymoron? [pdf]
Is it really “Complex”? Or did we make it “Complicated”? (2014) [video]
Galois for 21st-Century Readers [pdf]
Stabilization Theory: An Alternative to Neo-Darwinism
The Algorithmic Side to Riemann's Mathematics [pdf]
A Redefinition of the Derivative
Re:Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?
on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:50PM (#13970021)
"Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" from former ad-exec Jerry Mander