reading mostly non-fictional books to learn new stuff. But occasionally I'm reading Sci-Fi and History.
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@ulf_der_freak@bookwyrm.social Schau Dir vielleicht mal die Biografie von John von Neumann an oder sogar seine Arbeiten zu diesem ganzen Quanten-Zeugs. Der hat das wohl sehr verständlich geschrieben. Ich lese gerade "The Man from the future" über ihn.
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …
not fully finished yet. But I think I got the ghist of it. Might finish later this year.
Combining rigour and flexibility, MSP helps all organisations - public sector and private, large and small - achieve successful outcomes …
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and …
John Maynard Keynes, whose thinking shaped government policy the world over for much of the twentieth century, was ‘one of the biggest charlatans who has ever appeared on the economic scene’, said Morgenstern.
— Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Page 159)
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and …
Determined to help the United States keep Stalin in check, von Neumann had inadvertently helped to kick-start the Soviet H-bomb programme.
— Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Page 101)
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and …
Next year, when Rust attended a banquet at Göttingen, he asked Hilbert whether it was true that mathematics had suffered after the removal of Jews. ‘Suffered?’ replied Hilbert. ‘It hasn’t suffered, Herr Minister. It just doesn’t exist anymore.’
— Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Page 64)
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases …
Eugenia Cheng: Is Maths Real? (Hardcover, 2023, Profile Books Limited)
Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra?
Is maths even …
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …
Needed to put this on my reading list as suggested by @blogdiva@mastodon.social
Falko
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Takes three pervasive infrastructures and in a simple graphic treatment breaks them down in systematic detail, in historical and social context, and prompts questioning inequities and future reconsiderations of these built systems and their relationships to our global ecological society.
Je größer aber der Bedarf für die Reduktion von Unsicherheit ist, desto stärker wird an den Überzeugungen festgehalten, desto vehementer verteidigt man sie gegen Gegenargumente und widersprechende Evidenz.
— Die Illusion der Vernunft (Page 285)
"As today's business world becomes ever-more global and virtual, executives and managers are expected to …
Putting this finally on my list /cc @vicgrinberg@mastodon.social
@cowboy@bookwyrm.social while the Name of the Rose is certainly more "consumable" the Pendulum blow my mind. Thats actually one of my favorites books. So dense and full of history that largely actually happened ... a masterpiece.
