Mercurial > thoughts
changeset 115:dc6a0ea8e2dd
annotated "for fun" section.
author | rlm |
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date | Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:47:39 -0400 |
parents | b8a6638e6e5e |
children | b9e760a9b549 |
files | org/sussman-reading-list.org |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) [+] |
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1.1 --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 13:36:48 2014 -0400 1.2 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 13:47:39 2014 -0400 1.3 @@ -7,31 +7,21 @@ 1.4 #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org 1.5 #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both 1.6 1.7 +* TODO something about the point of this 1.8 + 1.9 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file 1.10 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the 1.11 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). 1.12 1.13 # NEEDS WORK 1.14 1.15 -* For fun 1.16 - - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price) 1.17 - - a reasonable philisopher 1.18 - - was einstein right? (clifford will) 1.19 - 1.20 - - Stranger in a strange land 1.21 - 1.22 - - Hackers, by Steven Levy 1.23 - - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for 1.24 - example. 1.25 - - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! 1.26 - 1.27 * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading 1.28 1.29 -- Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity" 1.30 - - readable 1.31 - - not too heavy 1.32 - - you can just go through it... 1.33 - - minimal dependencies 1.34 + - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity" 1.35 + - readable 1.36 + - not too heavy 1.37 + - you can just go through it... 1.38 + - minimal dependencies 1.39 1.40 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity 1.41 - can be read by H.S. student 1.42 @@ -259,3 +249,21 @@ 1.43 - Is a completely new way to program computers. 1.44 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]]. 1.45 1.46 +* For Fun 1.47 + - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price 1.48 + - ISBN: 0195117980 1.49 + - A reasonable philisopher! 1.50 + 1.51 + - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by 1.52 + Clifford M. Will 1.53 + - ISBN: 0465090869 1.54 + 1.55 + - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein 1.56 + - ISBN: 0441790348 1.57 + 1.58 + - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy 1.59 + - ISBN: 1449388396 1.60 + - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for 1.61 + example. 1.62 + - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures 1.63 + what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.