What Are You Reading? thread

[Adam Isom]

Share what you're reading! There should probably be some 'ground
rules', but none have occurred to me yet.

[Charlie Jacobsen]

Seven Summits
Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex
HTTP: The Definitive Guide
Miscellaneous programming books
Miscellaneous books on GIS and map projections
The Illustrated Man (it's okay, probably going to set it aside, move on)
Foundation series (Asimov, it's okay so far, not outstanding)

[Harold Carr]

On Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:09:44 UTC-7, Charlie Jacobsen wrote:

Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex

Do you know Matthew Flatt, one of the book's authors - he's a CS prof at the U.   I first met him in 1998.

 

Miscellaneous programming books

I am reading

- Learn You A Haskell

- Real World Haskell 

[Dan Nuffer]

Currently I'm reading:

- Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques

- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

This is my goodreads list. If anyone else is on goodreads, you can add me as a friend.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/857700

[Charlie Jacobsen]

Do you know Matthew Flatt, one of the book's authors - he's a CS prof at the U.   I first met him in 1998.

Yes, he's currently my teacher for an intro data structures and algorithms class, he lent me the book. Outstanding teacher, I've learned a lot.

[Harold Carr]

Do you know Matthew Flatt, one of the book's authors - he's a CS prof at the U.   I first met him in 1998.

Yes, he's currently my teacher for an intro data structures and algorithms class, he lent me the book. Outstanding teacher, I've learned a lot.

If you are hooked up with Matt you are headed in the right direction!  Say hello. 

[Carrie Joy]

This week I have enjoyed reading some of the essays from paulgraham.com, especially the ones "what you'll wish you'd known" and "how to make wealth."

[Harold Carr]

>  This week I have enjoyed reading some of the essays from paulgraham.com,
> especially the ones "what you'll wish you'd known" and "how to make
> wealth."

Hello Carrie - I'm curious how you came across Paul Graham - as you
know, he's big in the tech startup world - so I wonder what your
interest is.

Regards,
H

[Harold Carr]

I am in Prague on business. Since "when in Rome" I have been reading:

- Kafka's _The Trail_ - citizens can be arrested without letting them
know what they are charged with.

- Karel Čapek's _R.U.R._ (Rossum's Universal Robots) - the wonders of
mass production - and the invention of the word "robot"

- Bohumil Hrabal's _Closely Watched Trains - a young man, in a time
of war, not thinking about what is going on at large - more concerned
with getting laid.

Next week I will be in Venice on vacation. Any suggestions on what I
should read?

Regards,
Harold

[Ima Junryou]

I've been reading...

Godel Escher Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter
Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach -- Morris Kline
Real World Haskell -- Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen
Learn You A Haskell for Great Good -- Miran Lipovaca
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality -- Elizier Yudkowsky
Twlight Luminosity -- Alicorn
Quicksilver -- Neal Stephenson
and various bits of the lesswrong sequences from time to time

Once I can get my hands on a copy, I intend to read The Golden
Transcendence by John C. Wright, third in his Golden Age trilogy.
I've quite enjoyed the first two, and recommend them if you like sci-
fi.

[Adam Isom]

Willpower
HPMOR
Never Eat Alone
Language in Thought and Action
The Art of Seduction recently (can apply to all social & persuasive
situations)
books I'd rather not say

[Kevin Van Horn]

The Startup Owner's Manual
Darkworld
Feynman Lectures on Physics
Causality
John Dies at the End

Analytic Combinatorics -- maybe. I'm starting into it, and I'll see
how it goes. Cool stuff about applying one area of mathematics
(complex analysis) to another that appears completely unrelated
(combinatorics, i.e. counting how many discrete structures of a given
form exist).

I would be reading HPMOR if we could somehow create a hybrid of
Eleazer and Isaac Asimov who would churn out chapters faster... :-)

I'm hoping I can start reading my daughter's finished novel by the end
of this year.

[Kip]

I just finished:
Willpower
The Start-up of You
Steve Jobs
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Loneliness
The Art of Plain Talk
The Real Crash
Why We Get Fat
The Longevity Project (highly recommended)
Writing to Win (on legal writing)
MWF Seeking BFF

In the middle of reading:
The Better Angels of Our Nature (almost done)
In Sam We Trust (my third Sam Walton biography)
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
(several others too)

Just bought:
The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed (not exactly
LW material, depending on your life goals)
Currency Wars
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles That Fuel Success and
Performance at Work
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer,
Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative
Battles
The Last Lecture
Topgrading, 3rd Edition: The Proven Hiring and Promoting Method That
Turbocharges Company Performance

[Jeremy Frandsen]

I just finished:

The 6 Pillars of Self Esteem by Nathanial Brandon
Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
Transcend by Ray Kurzwiel and Terry Grossman

I'm currently working on:
A Path to Financial Piece of Mind by Dwayne Burnell
Being Genuine by Thomas D'Ansembourg

I mostly listen to podcast though and I have a list of those if anyone is interested.  My main interests are philosophy, health, liberty, and logic.

I'm looking for some great books on logic.  I'm about to dive into Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand, though I wouldn't mind something a bit easier if you have a suggestion.

On Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:59:25 PM UTC-6, Adam Isom wrote:

[Carrie Joy]

Jeremy, I recommend Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

[Jeremy Frandsen]

Just got it in Audible, thanks for the recommendation.

[Jeremy Frandsen]

I am just starting Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand as per the recommendation by one of my best friends, Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty podcast.  I'm also listening to the 26 hour audio called Introduction to Logic by Leonard Peikoff.  I'm very excited to start my "formal" education on logic.  I was never taught any of it in school, even college.

[Kip]

The last time I studied formal logic was in college.  So long ago...