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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceOwnsLol
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I really wanna pick this one up. |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by wotyzoid
I really wanna pick this one up. |
If you don't mind an e-book, it's here for free (alongside many others): http://www.truly-free.org/index.php#fiction
Anyhoo, I bought these today:
Think I'll start off with House Of Leaves. It's a strange book... colored text, upside-down pages, changes in font, reference notes to books that don't exist, & pictures. :wtf: |
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| bARTovsky |
Just finished:
Currently reading:
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
Think I'll start off with House Of Leaves. It's a strange book... colored text, upside-down pages, changes in font, reference notes to books that don't exist, & pictures. :wtf: |
I'm almost through with that one now, and I like it, if only for its sheer differentness and creativity. Glad to see original and interesting stuff is still coming out, because even with books I often get the impression that generic, commercialized is taking over the market. |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
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 I find very little time to read nowadays but I'm still chopping away at this book. It definitely lays down the evidence for evolution very clearly.
| quote: | Originally posted by Slipmat
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Also
Between classes at school I stop in the library and have been reading his World Orders New & Old (Or is it Old & New) |
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| aquila |
I'm such a big kid...
Ya, srsly. |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by Watts
House of Leaves is pretty good. |
pretty good is an understatement. too bad the follow up was awful |
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| wotyzoid |
Awesome. Thank you. |
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| tachobg |
I'm currently reading 'On Intelligence' by Jeff Hawkins, a guy who founded Palm and pretty much started the mobile computing/smartphone industry back in the 90s, and who also happens to be really into brains and building intelligent machines.
He presents a very engaging look at what intelligence really is and why understanding how the neocortex works could be the key to making machines with "real intelligence" as opposed to artificial intelligence. One of his main points is that intelligence is not about intelligent behavior, but rather about the computational processes of thinking themselves, and their predictive capabilities. This is not a new idea, but he aims to present a unified theory of how that actually works, something that few people have done (and none have done adequately according to him). He wrote it in 2004 and in 2005 founded a company called Numenta that applies those ideas to make intelligent machines that can naturally learn to do all kinds of intelligent tasks like recognizing people in video streams, telling apart a cat from a dog, or predicting what news articles you might be interested in reading. Apparently, most of these things are already state of the art, and they haven't even begun to explore all the capabilities of these models. Exciting stuff, I think.
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| couch-potato |
| Just started Infinite Jest. It's MASSIVE (1k+ pages), but also an enjoyable read. I'm only on page 17 & I'm starting to think that this is the best book I've read in a while :toocool: |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
I'm on & off about starting Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I've heard nothing but disdain for it, it's long, & from what I've previewed her writing is atrocious. But on the other hand I did spend $8.99 on it on a whim.
DECISIONS DECISIONS. |
i haven't been able to finish reading a book since atlas shrugged. |
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