# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1470065485 0 # Node ID 620ece2215c2b442fce0bd1008cc933e0da61d5c # Parent 753c3f1f79b4653ed37843638983f12c0dc07595 Update diff -r 753c3f1f79b4 -r 620ece2215c2 README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Sun Jul 24 17:22:55 2016 +0000 +++ b/README.markdown Mon Aug 01 15:31:25 2016 +0000 @@ -51,7 +51,11 @@ [taop]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262192500/?tag=stelos-20 [ggp-book]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1627052550/?tag=stelos-20 [ooze]: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/default/vim/bundle/ooze/ - +[Lisp Hackers]: https://leanpub.com/lisphackers/read +[Hillbilly Elegy]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062300547/?tag=stelos-20 +[Hillbilly Elegy Interview]: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-us-politics-poor-whites/ +[Engines of Logic]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393322297/?tag=stelos-20 +[diagonalization]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_diagonal_argument ## June 2016 @@ -976,3 +980,22 @@ * More [Bones][] tests from [TAOP][]. * Started cleaning up my vector math stuff from Coding Math. Might make it into its own little library so I can use it in other things. + +### 2016-07-25 - 2016-07-31 + +* Traveling around Iceland with a friend who was visiting. +* Read [Hillbilly Elegy][] after reading [this interview][Hillbilly Elegy + Interview]. It was a really interesting book. You should read it if you want + to understand how what's happening in the US could possibly be happening. + Luckily the book doesn't strike **too** close to home for me, but growing up + in rural Pennsylvania I definitely saw bits and pieces of what he describes. +* Read the [Lisp Hackers][] book. +* Finished reading [Engines of Logic][]. It was interesting, but kind of + a weird mix. I expected a basic pop science book about the history of logic + and computing, and for the most part that's what it was, but it was written by + a mathematician and has some really strangely-explained examples of particular + mathematical concepts that were really hard to follow. For example: I already + understood Cantor's [diagonalization][] argument before reading the book, but + I still found it hard to follow the author's explanation of it. The author + seems to be trying to "dumb down" the explanations but does it in a way that + makes it harder to grasp overall.