Reading Notes {ReadingNotes}

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Principle

The page gathers notes from some of the books I have read (mainly since autumn 2008). See also the ToDo section to understand how this page should evolve.

On The Menu :

All of PersonalInformationStream#Finished and:

• The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness? by Joel Ben Izzy, 2003
  • Wikipedia:Posttraumatic growth
• Imaginaire scientifique, cite des sciences ()
  • http://www.ictp.it/
  • gave to @cybunk
• Little Brother
• La Destruction Du Savoir En Temps De Paix? ()
  • La Destruction du savoir en temps de paix
  • by Corinne Abensour, Bernard Sergent, Jean-Philippe Testefort, Edith Wolf, Mille et une nuits 2004
  • Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce Random House 2009
• Flowers for Algernon? ()
  • Wikipedia:Flowers for Algernon
  • Content/PiecesOfCulture#Essays
  • recommended by Kenza
  • episode 3 "The Plateau" of Fringe (season 3)
  • Wikipedia:Limitless
• The Biotech Century ()
  • The Biotech Century by Jeremy Rifkin, Tarcher/Putnam, 1998
• Antigone? ()
  • http://www.wikisummaries.org/Antigone
• The Alchemist? ()
  • http://www.wikisummaries.org/The_Alchemist
• HackersAndPainters ()
• Walden
• Le Peuple Des Connecteurs
• Comment les systèmes pondent ? ()
• The Selfish Gene ()
• Animal's Farm ()
• Brave New World ()
  • http://www.wikisummaries.org/Brave_New_World
• Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens
• Etre Artiste
• Behind The Mirror
• Philosophy: Who Needs It ()
• Lord Valentine's Castle ()
• I am a Strange Loop
• Trois essays sur l'emergence ()
• Demons in Eden
• Knowledge and Its Limits
• Wikipatterns
• Accelerando
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery
• Beautiful Code
• Programming The Universe
• Never Eat Alone
• The Red Queen
• Game Theory At Work ()
• The Long Tail ()
• The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ()
• The Politics of Misinformation
• Ancient Epistemology
• Foundations in Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
• The Mating Mind
• High-speed society
• The Code Book / Histoire des codes secrets
• Des Mondes Impossibles
• The Wisdom Paradox
• The Future Of Ideas
• Bio-mechanisms of Swimming and Flying
• Information feudalism
• The Self Made Tapestry
• Programming The Universe
• The Diamond Age
• Intelligent Bioinformatics
• Battle of Cognition
• Origins of Genius
• Supersizing the Mind
• Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter
• Philosophical Darwinism
• The Things We Do
• The Mechanical Mind In History
• Without Miracles
• Que Faire De Notre Cerveau

Philosophy: Who Needs It

Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand - ISBN - Originialy published in 1982

Offered by Nathan.

See also

• The Goddess of the Market: The Meaning of Ayn Rand with David Boaz, Jennifer Burns, Anne C. Heller, Cato Institute October 2009

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Lord Valentine's Castle

Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg, 1980

Themes

• the mindset of juggling
• travels accross world
• memory loss and defining oneself

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Bio-mechanisms of Swimming and Flying

Bio-mechanisms of Swimming and Flying Fluid Dynamics, Biomimetic Robots, and Sports Science, by Naomi Kato and Shinji Kamimura - ISBN 978-4-431-73379-9 - Springer 2008

Motivation for reading this book

Thinking about Navier/Stokes equations during the 19 June 2009 session at the Brossolette pool and desiring to improve thanks to a better understand of fluid dynamics.

Skimming

• Part 1: Biological Aspects of Locomotive Mechanisms and Behaviors of Animals While Swimming and Flying
  • biological propulsion starting with simple micro-organisms to complex organisms
  • Chapter 6 - Mechanical Properties of the Caudal Fin Resulting from the Caudal Skeletal Structure of the Bluefin Tuna
• Part 2: Hydrodynamics of Swimming and Flying
  • Chapter 12 - Studies of Hydrodynamics in Fishlike Swimming Propulsion
• Part 3: Biomimetic Swimming or Flying Robots
• Part 4: Sports Science
  • sports and simulation models
  • Chapter 29 - Analysis of Breast, Back and Butterfly Strokes by the Swimming Human Simulation Model SWUM

See also

• Swimming Human Simulation Model "SWUM" by Motomu Nakashima, last updated in 2007 (as of checked in June 2009)
• Studies of tropical tuna swimming performance in a large water tunnel I: Energetics. H Dewar and J Graham, Journal of experimental biology 192, 13-31
• Lec 28 | 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999, Watler Lewin, MIT
  • and complete MIT OpenCourseWare course for undergraduate

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Done

• possibility to search amongst all the books I have read
  • % in Vimperator through the Keywords#inmybooks
  • using My Library at Google Books
  • list the book I have read (done manually and with ReadingNotes
• add to the Template Open Library Covers API (Open Library)
  • still few ISBN to correct
• list the institutional books I have studied (from kindergarden to engineering school)
  • moved to Cookbook.Cognition#EducationSelfUpdate
• generate a Causal Reading Tree using
  • (moved to Cookbook.Cognition#CausalReadingTree)

To Do

• Integrate with the sideway Firefox page (based on Seedea:Seedea/InputFirefoxSidebar) of recent readings.
• export notes to annotations that can be layered on top of the original document
  • individual PDF
  • online libraries
• mine the read books to find cross links in
  • references
  • authors
  • places
  • rare expressions
  • eventually using
    • Google Books
    • OpenSearch
    • Amazon SIP
    • OpenCalais
• link to Seedea:Research.Bibliography
• add Timeline of cosmology RSS feed to Bloglines
• add precision regarding my notation format
  • <<some text quoted by the author>> is original quotation using french style quotes while "normal quotes" outside
  • italic is original by the author emphasis
  • bold text is personal emphasis
  • (p69) page number is always referring to the current book unless warned
  • quote including [bracketed text] means that text was changed to understand the quote partly outside of its context
    • most of the time the bracketed text also comes from the original text, only appearing before or after the quote
• measure "information density" for each book
  • based on the number of quotation per unit? (page, chapter, ...)
  • not that this could also be used with Cognition#LearningNewLanguage if one consider this notion of information density as the inverse of the acquired vocabulary of a language
    • i.e. the less one masters the vocabulary used, the more dense the book will be
• ask my former libraries to give me my data
  • listing of books I asked
    • dated
    • time
  • Les Cordeliers
    • SIGB
  • IUT de Lannion library
    • no direct platform
  • UTC library
    • account "fbenetou" inactive
  • UTFPr library
    • in Curitiba
  • BNF
    • account "Utopiah" active
  • template
    • Bonjour, je souhaiterais obtenir la liste des livres que j'ai pu lire dans le passe. Quel procedure dois-je suivre pour cela ? Cordiallement, moi.
  • use the result as a bootstrapping dataset for CausalReadingTree
• consider dedicated pages for research articles and PhD thesis
  • currently using nothing or category
  • e.g. ResearchArticle with ReadingNotes.EvolutionaryEpistemologyAsAScientificMethod
  • see also
    • WithoutNotesOlderThanOctober09#CiteSeer
    • Seedea:Research/Bibliography#ToDo
    • https://searchapi.scopus.com/ (registered)
    • ElegantSolutions#ExperimentsTools
• integrate Path:/pub/My_Shelfari_Books.tsv

Update notes wrote before the proper template was done

Random page to improve

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