putting this in my list as follow up from the Kirz Gödel biography. More insight into the Vienna circle of outstanding thinkers
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reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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Falko wants to read Exact thinking in demented times by Karl Sigmund
The philosophy of science between the two world wars, 1920s-1930s.
Falko finished reading Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
Phenomenal person and an awesome book.
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
Kreisel once asked Gödel why, since both he and Adele so obviously enjoyed being hospitable and having friends to visit, they did not have people over more often. Gödel replied that he “had noticed that most people showed more excitement in company than they felt, and he found this very tiring.” (“Clearly,” observed Kreisel, “at times he needed very few data to reach, painlessly, a very sound conclusion.”)
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 215)
Falko wants to read Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The unmissable follow-up to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin.
Earth …
sequel to "Children of Time" and "Children of ruin" ...
Falko wants to read Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
Defines, describes and mitigates the effects noise on errors in decision making, and on judgments …
just bought the English version. Only half the price of the German version ... 🤷♂️
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loppear started reading How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us
Infrastructure …
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
He always kept the door of his office at Fine Hall open, and had a running bet with a colleague that if either caught the other working, the guilty party had to pay ten dollars. Von Neumann was never caught.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 156)
The word is about Johnny von Neumann at Princeton ;)
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
Princeton undergraduates added a verse to the ever-evolving “Faculty Song”: "Here’s to Veblen, Oswald V., Lover of England and her tea; He built a country club for math, Where you can even take a bath."
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 151 - 152)
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
Admitting that “mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me,” Flexner tasked Veblen with the job of assembling his blue-ribbon herd.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 150)
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system …
When the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching commissioned him in 1910 to examine the state of American medical education, he personally visited every one of the 153 medical colleges in the United States and Canada, and found that all but a handful were little more than diploma mills, with no admission standards, no laboratories, no practical training, and no graduation requirements other than handing over a check.
— Journey to the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky (Page 146 - 147)
That was Abraham Flexner who later founded the institute for advanced studies at Princeton.
In order to succeed at that, organizations need stable teams and effective team patterns and interactions. They need to invest in empowered, skilled teams as the foundation for agility and adaptability. To stay alive in ever more competitive markets, organizations need teams and people who are able to sense when context changes and evolve accordingly.
— Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais (Page 31)
I only started reading the first page of the first chapter and find this summary of what I'm preaching since years.
