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Old 12-11-2015, 01:59 PM   #2821
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Old 12-12-2015, 06:13 AM   #2822
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Old 01-20-2016, 11:25 PM   #2825
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Old 02-20-2016, 11:41 AM   #2831
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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.
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Old 02-20-2016, 04:34 PM   #2833
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Old 02-21-2016, 03:29 PM   #2834
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Gonna start getting back into reading, especially the classics!
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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.
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Old 03-30-2016, 05:33 PM   #2837
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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.
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.
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Power vs. Force by David Hawkins...very very interesting
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Just finished 11/22/63 - Man that was a long, great book

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