What books are you goys reading right now?
Me? Pic related.
De bello gallico
One Hundred Days by Admiral Sandy Woodward
It's bout the Falklands bruh
And next I'm going to read Sea Harrier over the Falklands by 'Sharky' Ward.
It's also bout the Falklands bruh
>>51631401
Father Forest by Anatoly Kim
Nothing,
I read something called Why We Lost by Daniel P. Bolger, it's "a general's inside account of the iraq and afghanistan wars" 430 pages
Then I read Isis: Inside the Army of Terror 240 pages
Then I read The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai which is about the psychiatrist who monitored the prisoners at Nuremberg. 240 pages pretty good.
That was in the span of about 4 weeks so I said fuck it no more reading and bought a ps4 last month instead. I have a stack of books I want to read but I'm also open to suggestions if you have something.
Better than Sun Tzu 2bh
>>51631776
Can anyone explain me, what means 2bh? to be?
>>51631883
to be honest 2bh(to be honest) lad
>>51631693
How boring.
You studying Comp Sci?
>>51631776
Art of War is literally for economy or administration undergrads who are too fucking lazy to read anything with more than 100 pages and dream of creating a firm with their epic chinese philosophy. That is a proper fucking war philosophy book right there.
>>51631750
Look up Storm of Steel, lad.
An incredible account of the first world war by a man who actually didn't find the war all that objectionable.
It was cheap. I like history.
Quaran.
>>51631883
t.b.h. lad i am s.m.h. right now
>>51631909
>proper war philosophy
>written by a faggot frog that never saw a day of combat
sure thing pal
>>51631909
literally babies first french philosopher
>>51631896
just i hated that shit 2bh 2bh
>>51631957
Allah is pidaras
>>51632005
His worshippers may be so.
Extension du domaine de la lutte by MIchel Houllebecq. Reading it in Norwegian though.
>>51631904
Not so borning as lisp programming, i am not studying in Comp Sci, just for personal education, i am ITmanager and want grow to sys adm.
>>51631909
Didn't realize that you were referring to Discipline and Punish (American foreign language skills).
You do realize that book is about systems used to control domestic populations?
It's a good book, but if your gonna characterize it as some treatise on the philosophy of war you are a fucking moron.
am i meme'd?
any suggestion?
>>51632051
>grow to sys adm
Why do you want to get such job senpai?
>>51631693
Is it worth a read?
>>51632094
Why would you read that?
Are you a student?
>>51632094
Are you looking for something different or a more engaging technical manual?
>tfw
>>51632126
yes, electronic engineering freshman
>>51631965
>>51632080
I was reffering to the anon that posted On War you halfwits
>>51631981
>Durkheim
>Voltaire
>Descartes
>Comte
>Aron
>Derrida
ok bud
>>51632131
i'd like something more intuitive and "to the point" for that topic
>>51632098
What? I dont know what is senpai.
>such job
What job you can sugges me else?
>>51632142
>majored in EE because 4chan told him he would make 100k/year starting
can't breathe
>>51632204
>senpai
f.a.m.
>What job you can sugges me else?
I don't know, but IT manager seems to be a better job than sys. admin.
>>51632165
wikipedia.com
>>51632142
get out now
>>51632252
But a systems administrator is just an IT manager with more knowledge and bigger pay.
>>51631401
>its almost 2016
>still reading books
stupid nerds hahahahahahaha
>>51632294
Hello politburo.
Best not be reading those silly books or otherwise we'll get ides huh? :^)
>>51632161
I'm drunk and totally misinterpreted your statement. You're right and I fucked up.
>>51632165
I'm more knowledgeable on media studies than engineering. So if you're ever curious about what you are party to communicating read the pic, it was written in the 70's before British television adopted a more Americanized commercial paradigm. I assume TV follows pretty much the same formula in Poland.
Amusing Ourselves to Death is also a nice primer for understanding the ways mediums affect the conversations they facilitate.
>>51632230
i just like to tinker stuffs, can't think i could excel in anything else, mechanical engineering drains your money out
>>51632258
already read, i need something inbetween
>>51632294
hahaha lol
>>51632322
>poland
>>51632337
>I'm drunk
Forgive me
>>51632322
gotta need that for laboratory project, thanks
got the ISBN, fuck buying books
>>51632337
>norGAY
>>51632288
>with more knowledge
That's true.
>bigger pay
Not really, at least here. Sys. admins are seen as lower class at one level with plumbers etc.
>>51632285
literally in curriculum, no need for that shit for now
>>51632357
Agreed, buying books if for chumps.
You should check out the movie Network, it predicted the state of today's televised news back in the 70's. Also some of the best monologues in cinematic history.
https://vimeo.com/47323848
>>51632415
is the book I postedcurriculum for you as a freshman? my condolences
>>51632458
i'll save that for my lab partners, they're the one managing that shits
>>51632479
no, but gotta be in 2 semesters. its just not my main interest
>>51632403
I think figuratively we can compare IT manager and sys admin like plumber and administrator of plumbers. Just in my country it is, in russia of course too. i think. Eng anon upper said true.
>>51632567
If you're gonna leave the heavy lifting to them, then throw this at em while your at it.
Not to mention this.
http://monoskop.org/images/7/73/Kittler_Friedrich_Gramophone_Film_Typewriter.pdf
Granted these texts get more into the nature of the relationship between humans and technology generally. But if they, or you for that matter, has a serious desire to understand the impact your technical work has on the human condition generally, definitely chek them out.
>>51632672
the broadcasting laboratory is divided into more subsection basically comprised of engineers, technicians and the creatives. i think i'll throw this one to the technicians rather, and the other ones to the creatives, i think i'll have stick to my book for a while
t. neocon
>>51632736
Please do, I'm a media studies guy that places a great deal of value on having a working understanding of the technical side of the mediums I'm examining. I'd be grateful if you could pass on these texts, the content analysis side of the field gets so much more attention and offers so little comparative insight. Plus if you're feeling like they don't have to study as hard as you, you won't after passing them Kittler and Stiegler (mostly Stiegler though, French philosophers are notorious for their impenetrable prose).
I'd offer you the sources I used to learn about the operating electronic components, as well as analog and digital circuitry, but it came mostly from 40+ year old textbooks I got a library book sales.
Pretty sober article so far, the City Journal has some solid analysis.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1203mh.html
>>51632880
will do, thanks famalam
1Q84 by Murakami
Sherlock Holmes shit
some Lovecraft
and Metamorphosis by Kafka
>>51632765
>t. a hideous, nonsensical amalgamation of literally the worst part of every single American political ideology
Are you retarded? Seriously, have you been tested?
>>51632921
Thanks for listening, I don't expect what I learned in this respect to be heard by many in this lifetime or afterward.
>>51632925
>Murakami
Good lad.
Son was sick today, so I started reading him The Hobbit to him. We'll finish it tomorrow.
>>51633049
How old is he?
>>51632458
or make it easy for them and just point to this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvT_qEZJf8
>>51632921
Listen to this guy
>>51633117
It's the least you can do for your own understanding
>>51633079
He's 6. He really likes it so far. Don't worry, I'll not introduce him to the shitty Jackson version of it.
>>51633184
My understanding of the current situation has been that it is largely attributable to the arbitrary lines drawn by European powers. This ideas I have is based off an incomplete reading of Robert Fisk's "The War for Civilization"
>>51633218
You're a cool dad.
Let him watch LOTR tho.
>>51633148
2philosopical4me, nothing to do with experience and academic pursue
>>51631693
I studied from the Dinosaur book, don't remember which edition it was doe
One of my assignment involved using of pthreads, enjoyed the class
>>51633260
Of course.
>>51633276
Having a better understanding of the fundamental nature of the medium you're working is essential for staying ahead of the curve. It allows you to better predict the future and plan accordingly.
If these aims are not related to your ambitions than you are correct.
>reading books
Just finished this last night. Took me a long time to read, I started in the summer
It was interesting seeing how some of his predictions have panned out. Hofstadter predicted that no computer program would beat a human in chess until it developed the cognitive abilities resembling that of a human chess player. That was in 1982, and deep blue ended up beating the world grand master in chess in 1997. Amazing how quickly things happen
fuggin nukes
>>51633404
I've gotten about 1/3 into that book, it is very difficult. Is it worth it?
In any case you should check out David Copes book 'Algorithmic Music', he created an AI program that creates piano compositions based on a sample of a composers music. Hofstadter helped by submitting a number of his compositions, and then playing a selection of his and those composed by the formulas in front of an academic audience (in addition to a similar selection of Chopin). They couldn't tell the difference.
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/algorithmic-music-david-cope-and-emi/
I'm not sure if everything I've said is backed up by this article, but I've read several of Cope's books. More confirmation will take time.
>>51631401
i just finished 1984 what book should i start to read next ?
>>51633566
Yeah, that section is tough. he's laying out the mechanisms needed for an intuition of Godel's incompleteness theorem which happens in chapter 14. After that, he talks about some of the implication of indirect self reference (i.e. talking about one's self without using the words "I" or "me"). The last 6 chapters of the book were the most illuminating for me.
I'll definitely check out that article. He talks in the later section of the book about who would be the composer of an algorithmic music program's music, the program or the programmer. And at what point the program could be considered to have "written" the music. I guess that was all from personal experience! Thanks for the link
>>51633758
We (commie feelingless state) or Brave New World (leftist "utopia")
Mate just got me this.
Family says it's a good read
>>51633758
Das Capital :^)
>>51633827
The link was more of something to point to than a serious source, I can't remember which book Hofstadter's writing on the subject are in, but I know they exist. I'd highly recommend it if you can find it.
>>51633831
>>51633758
http://www.highexistence.com/amusing-ourselves-to-death-huxley-vs-orwell/
weeb shit, shadow of the torturer
>>51633923
>>51633827
I believe the book was written by David Cope though, and Hofstadter wrote the forward though. I was reading alot of AI stuff at the time.
>>51634021
Nice. I've been on an AI kick also, I read some Kurzweil before Hofstadter, I've been looking for a new one, so I think I'll read Cope next. Any other AI related books you'd recommend?
>>51634066
Gimme a sec, I just realized I cited alot of the sources I'm talking about. Just gotta find tha papers on my hardrive
How do you guys read books(hard copy, on your phone, E-reader, or via your computer)? I usually read everything on my phone, as the lighting where i live is fairly terrible, i was thinking of getting a E-reader though and was wondering if anyone had any advice..
>>51634293
I read hard copy books.
Sometimes if it's a boring read I listen to the audiobook too and read along with the commentary.
>>51634293
E-ink is streets ahead of phone screens. I have a kindle paperwhite and it's really wonderful. very little eye strain, back lit and easy to handle than a large book
>>51634066
I managed to find the Hofstadter one, but not some of the others. In any case, start with Turing
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf
Licklider is the first to articulate the type of tasks necessary
http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider%20-%20Man-Computer%20Symbiosis.pdf
Cope, David, and Douglas R. Hofstadter. Virtual music: computer synthesis of musical style. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001: 265
I know Dreyfus isn't popular in the AI community, but damnit if he hasn't been a lot more right about the progress of AI so far. I've had a Comp Sci professor, respected and very published in his field, talk about having AI friends as close as human ones within the decade. That's bullshit, and Dreyfuss helps explain why.
'What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence.'
Hubert Dreyfus
>>51634328
>I read hard copy books.
Do you just store them on a bookshelf after your done? Once ive read something, i seldom every pick it up again(unless its a technical book).
>>51634346
>I have a kindle paperwhite and it's really wonderful
I was thinking of ordering one this weekend, whats your battery life like?
>>51634293
I have an ipad I read on, its not too pleasant. I have a friend that basically reads exclusively on his kindle. It seems that the epaper route is definitely where its at, that is if you reading is your primary goal.
>>51634574
battery has been greatI go weeks without charging oftentimes.
This thread doesn't belong here.
>>51635368
Call the mods, we don't care.
Going through Pope's body of work.
Only The Dunciad is left.
Red Calvary by Issac Babel and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
>>51635410
>we don't care.
Now transfere your behaviour to whole countries. That's why Europe will die.
>>51635540
>Not caring what people in other countries are reading
I would've anticipated such a sentiment from a fellow countrymen, not a kraut
>>51635540
>That's why Europe will die.
Couldn't care less. Thanks G-d for creating Siberia in Asian part.
A friend gave me the man in high castle
Other than that I recently bought hte gallic wars by Julius Caesar and meditations by marcus aurelius + enchiridion of epictetius
>>51631401
Radiacy threats in environment and in radioecology.
>>51631401
>>51631401
just started reading Ana Karenina
I have to say there's some pretty based reading material ITT. Unless you snobs just post shit to appear sophisticated. I'm at pic related atm for school. Protip: it's not about what it sounds like it might be about.
So far the best clarification of existence to me.
Someone gave me a loan of the complete Ayn Rand.
It's really awful, but I feel like I have to read it out of nicity.
started reading this, among others
>>51637025
this desu f.a.m.
just grabbed Atlas Shrugged, felt like I had to read at least once no matter how shitty it might be
Reading a newer edition of this for school
>>51637705
Oh God, I'll pray for you mate. I don't know why he gave them to me, he knows I am a reactionary, not a libertarian.
Gonna start with this one.
