ReadingNotes
Reading Notes
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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.
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All of PersonalInformationStream#Finished and:
- HackersAndPainters (to write down)
- Walden
- Le peuple des connecteurs (to write down)
- Comment les systèmes pondent ? (to write down)
- The Selfish Gene (to write down)
- Animal's Farm (to write down)
- Brave New World (to write down)
- Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes 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 (to write down)
- 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.
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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Des mondes impossibles
Des mondes impossibles : 2 en 1: l'aventure des figures impossibles - le monde des illusions de Bruno Ernst - ISBN 3822854093 - Taschen 2006
Reading
- eh... interesting ;)
See also
- Godel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey OpenCourseWare 2007 as seen earlier
- Escher for Real Gershon Elber
- Official M.C. Website by The M.C. Escher Company B.V
- Impossible world by Vlad Alexeev, started in 2001
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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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The Self-Made Tapestry
The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature by Philip Ball - ISBN 0198502443 - Oxford University Press 1999
Skimming
- first pass with titles and conclusions
- chapters organized by what patterns are then listing the different patterns across different levels of complexity, from the molecular to the social then concluding on principles
- multiple references to On Growth and Form by Thompson D'Arcy (referred pages 6-8, 11-13, 17, 23, 40-2, 44-5, 48-9, 176, 252-3)
- concluding that "one of the principal messages of this book [is] that we can map many of nature's tapestries onto some universal blueprints, in which specifies cease to matter."
See also
- Philip Ball Science Writer homepage
- Geoffrey West and his work on power law in life and complexity for the Santa Fe Institute (referred p132)
- his talk on Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems, Google Tech talks 2007
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot and his work on fractals (referred pages 116-17, 153, 159, 161, 194)
- Ron Eglash on African fractals, TED.com 2007
- Navier-Stokes equations and Logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral or growth spiral according to Wikipedia
- websites on art by code and even more on External links of Generative art in Wikipedia
- Art From Code by Keith Peter
- Generator.x: Software and generative strategies in art and design
- ContextFreeArt.org
- Complexification.net by Jared Tarbell
- Michael Hansmeyer Computational Architecture
- Chemistry meets computing also by Philip Ball, Nature 406, 118-120 2000)
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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)- 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
- 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
- listing of books I asked
- add to the Template Open Library Covers API (Open Library)
