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completed bookshelf section
author rlm
date Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:06:43 -0400
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     1.4      - Very philosophic; deep.
     1.5      - You could read it 100 times and learn something new each time!
     1.6  
     1.7 -  - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
     1.8 -    Feldman (Editor). 
     1.9 -    - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]
    1.10 +  - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][Computers and Thought]], by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
    1.11 +    Feldman (Editor).
    1.12      - ISBN: 0262560925
    1.13      This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
    1.14      AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
    1.15 -    papers are not very interesting. 
    1.16 +    papers are not very interesting.
    1.17  
    1.18 -  - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms,
    1.19 +  - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms]],
    1.20      by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
    1.21 -
    1.22 -    [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
    1.23 -
    1.24 +    - ISBN: 9780262013895
    1.25      - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
    1.26  
    1.27 -  - Wolpert Principles of development
    1.28 -  - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
    1.29 -  - Lawrence the making of a fly
    1.30 -  - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
    1.31 +  - [[http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199549078.do][Principles of Development]], by Wolpert
    1.32 +    - ISBN: 0199554285
    1.33  
    1.34 -  - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
    1.35 +  - [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1547380.A_Genetic_Switch][A Genetic Switch]], by Mark Ptashne
    1.36 +    - ISBN: 0865423156
    1.37 +    - Such clarity!
    1.38 +    - [[http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/mark-ptashne/genetic-switch-lecture-series][Lecture Series Based on the book!]]
    1.39  
    1.40 -  - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
    1.41 +  - [[http://making-of-a-fly.me/][The Making of a Fly]], by Peter A. Lawrence
    1.42 +    - ISBN: 0632030488
    1.43 +    - Probably out of date already, but very well written!  
    1.44 +    
    1.45 +  - [[http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Formation-Ciliate-Studies-Models/dp/0195048903][Pattern Formation: Ciliate Studies and Models]], by Joseph Frankel
    1.46 +    - ISBN: 0195048903
    1.47 +    - My type of book!
    1.48 +
    1.49 +  - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/harmonic-mind][The Harmonic Mind]], Volumes 1 and 2, by Smolenck and Legendre
    1.50 +    - ISBN: 9780262516198
    1.51 +    - I'm very interested in the amazing latency of the human
    1.52 +      brain. This book presents a way by which multiple stages of
    1.53 +      computation can be folded together into a single computation,
    1.54 +      and is an interesting hypothesis about how the mind might work!
    1.55 +
    1.56 +  - [[http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Handbook-2013-Hardcover-Edition][The Radio Amateur's Handbook]], [[http://www.arrl.org/][ARRL]]
    1.57      - /practical/ electronics book
    1.58 -    - done for 100 years
    1.59 +    - They've been making this book for about 100 years!
    1.60  
    1.61 -  - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
    1.62 -    - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
    1.63 -
    1.64 +  - [[http://www.amazon.com/Radiotron-Langford-Smith-Reproduced-Distributed-Corporation/dp/B000JILVH4][Radiotron Designer's Handbook, 4th edition, RCA]]
    1.65 +    - ASIN: B000JILVH4
    1.66 +    - I'm very interested in hi-fi.
    1.67  
    1.68  * Marvin Minsky 
    1.69    Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a