ReadingNotes

Reading Notes

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.

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All of PersonalInformationStream#Finished and:

Little Brother ? (to write down)
La Destruction Du Savoir En Temps De Paix? (to write down)
- 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? (to write down)
- Wikipedia:Flowers for Algernon
- Content/PiecesOfCulture#Essays
- recommended by Kenza
The Biotech Century (to write down)
- The Biotech Century by Jeremy Rifkin, Tarcher/Putnam, 1998
Antigone? (to write down)
- http://www.wikisummaries.org/Antigone
The Alchemist? (to write down)
- http://www.wikisummaries.org/The_Alchemist
HackersAndPainters (to write down)
Walden
Le peuple des connecteurs (to write down)
Comment les syst�mes pondent ? (to write down)
The Selfish Gene (to write down)
Animal's Farm (to write down)
Brave New World (to write down)
- http://www.wikisummaries.org/Brave_New_World
Petit trait� de manipulation � l'usage des honn�tes gens
Etre Artiste
Behind The Mirror
Philosophy: Who Needs It (to write down)
Lord Valentine's Castle (to write down)
I am a Strange Loop
Trois essays sur l'emergence (to write down)
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 (to write down)
The Long Tail (to write down)
The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions (to write down)
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.

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

To Do

Integrate with the sideway Firefox page (based on Firefox Sidebar) of recent readings.
export notes to annotations that can be layered on top of the original document
- individual PDF
- online libraries
possibility to search amongst all the books I have read
- find an online library providing search within content (including My Library at Google Books)
- list the book I have read or export from librarything.com and similar websites
- restrict the search to the content of this list only
- add the searchbox here
- submit to the P.I.M. wiki
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 refering 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
~~list the institutional books I have studied (from kindergarden to engineering school)~~
- moved to Cookbook.Cognition#EducationSelfUpdate
measure "information density" for each book
- based on the number of quotation per unit? (page, chapter, ...)
generate a Causal Reading Tree using
- (moved to Cookbook.Cognition#CausalReadingTree)
ask my former librairies 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
add to the Template Open Library Covers API (Open Library)

update notes wrote before the proper template was done