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pnoon 12-11-2015 12:59 PM

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Stolen Prey - John Sandford

YankeeMan 12-12-2015 05:13 AM

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Make Me - Lee Child

tsolomon 12-12-2015 06:08 AM

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Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

Porch Dweller 12-29-2015 04:00 PM

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I just started Beacon 23 by Hugh Howley

pnoon 01-20-2016 10:25 PM

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Cujo by Stephen King.

Porch Dweller 01-21-2016 06:18 AM

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Just finished The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons.

Skywalker 01-21-2016 08:47 AM

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster

Skywalker 02-02-2016 10:01 PM

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Star Wars: Darth Bane - Dynasty of Evil

Skywalker 02-13-2016 09:12 AM

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Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno

hotreds 02-13-2016 09:26 AM

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markem 02-20-2016 10:41 AM

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I'm reading several things on the kindle but thought that some here might be interested in my latest e-book selection. It is by one of my colleagues here at Portland State, Melanie Mitchell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Mitchell, http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mm/). If any of you have read Godell, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, know that her PhD advisor authored that book.

Complexity: a Guided Tour (http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Gui.../dp/0199798109) is very well written (at least so far) and targeted at the non-technical audience. I've always been impressed with Melanie's clear communications style and am anxious to see it in action in a setting for the non-technical. And in this area, I am definitely the non-technical.

If you are interested in artificial life, machine learning, and such, this is likely a very good book. I'm just starting in so will have more to say in a week or so.

Remo 02-20-2016 10:57 AM

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13 Hours

hotreds 02-20-2016 03:34 PM

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Gabe215 02-21-2016 02:29 PM

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Gonna start getting back into reading, especially the classics!
Right now:
Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson

Preacher 02-21-2016 02:34 PM

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Splinter Cell: Checkmate by Tom Clancy. Been a fan of his since I read Hunt for Red October back in the day.

hotreds 03-19-2016 01:11 PM

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timj219 03-30-2016 04:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by markem (Post 2076076)
I'm reading several things on the kindle but thought that some here might be interested in my latest e-book selection. It is by one of my colleagues here at Portland State, Melanie Mitchell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Mitchell, http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mm/). If any of you have read Godell, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, know that her PhD advisor authored that book.

Complexity: a Guided Tour (http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Gui.../dp/0199798109) is very well written (at least so far) and targeted at the non-technical audience. I've always been impressed with Melanie's clear communications style and am anxious to see it in action in a setting for the non-technical. And in this area, I am definitely the non-technical.

If you are interested in artificial life, machine learning, and such, this is likely a very good book. I'm just starting in so will have more to say in a week or so.

Looks good I'm going to pick that up for my nook. I wonder what it's like to spend that much time with Hofstadter? I don't know if I'd get smarter by osmosis or if I'd burn out what little brain I do have trying to keep up with him!
Your colleague and Hofstadter must think along the same lines I see she wrote a book called "Analogy-Making as Perception" in '93 and that's pretty close to the subject matter of Hofstatder's latest.

RelaxingSmoke 05-04-2016 09:48 PM

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Power vs. Force by David Hawkins...very very interesting

irratebass 05-18-2016 06:03 AM

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Just finished 11/22/63 - Man that was a long, great book

Now reading

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hotreds 05-18-2016 06:39 AM

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