Books

@Austen Damodaran is the gold standard text on Wall Street. Took a course from him when I was at GS.

https://t.co/m0nWzeaVdn

Sahitya Samputa ( Kannada) Mysore Government Text Book

Soul of Japan: An Introduction to Shinto and Ise Jingu (2013) [pdf]

Dive into Systems is a free, online textbook that serves as a gentle introduction to computer systems, computer organization, and parallel computing. The book is intended for an audience that has only a CS1 background. It guides readers through a vertical slice of a computer to develop an understanding of a variety of systems topics, including:

how a computer runs a program, from a program expressed in a high-level language to low-level binary representation and circuits

programming in C and Assembly, assuming a CS1 background

introduction to operating systems and the systems costs that affect program performance (the memory hierarchy, caching, and code optimization)

introduction to parallel computing with shared memory and pthreads

New #book on Sanskrit theology: Goddess Traditions in India
https://t.co/6AVDXrmkoG

This is a scholarly book that can be understood by everyone & I recommend everyone interested in Indian Kavyas,history & specifically the #Mahabharata to read this"Evolution of the Mahabharata" by Sri S R Ramaswamy.The English translation is impeccable. https://t.co/EVCJRNMHKR👇 https://t.co/zpmu58UH7s https://t.co/iBZjK1daOI

Yesterday, during my daily meditation 🧘‍♂️ I had an epiphany 🤗!

I realized Data-Oriented Programming was a 400 page book that tries to explain why @richhickey's 3 word idiom "just use maps!" indeed makes sense.

https://t.co/R6lJxN3meo

#DataOrientedProgramming https://t.co/gpgMwKhW08

Reading The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
https://t.co/lrWQ0slYAN

https://t.co/R0GU6I8szp

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

When we eliminate effort, we eliminate life’s pleasures.

"The honest competitor understands that while luck affects outcomes, it doesn’t affect effort. So he learns to take his pleasure from the daily grind."

Stalin's liquidation of the kulaks was not entirely motivated by economic or class concerns. He was also driven to eliminate "the natural leaders" of the peasants who might have organized against communist subjugation.

"English manners were imposed on the middle class as a way of domesticating them, along with instilling in them the fear of breaking rules and violating social norms." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

The Indian experience is incomplete without knowing the contribution of Dalit personalities to the making of the Indian state. Time travel with us to know of their inspiring lives and work, and how they have impacted our times. Pre-order:

The epilogue of my book shows how Wu’s radical transparency and strategic conferencing, besides his antipandemic measures, could serve as critical lessons for present-day Chinese policymakers. To read more, please buy my book here: @stanfordpress (7/7)

"the wise and ambitious manager learns to cultivate the proper, prescribed modes of appearing. He dispassionately takes stock of himself, treating himself as an object..undertakes a program to reconstruct his image, his publicly avowed attitudes and ideas"

@david_perell have you seen/read "Several Short Sentences About Writing"?

Just finished Piranesi and it is one the best damn things I’ve read in a while. https://t.co/A3fBpu82uv https://t.co/iDgzXK1k8R

@razibkhan This is supposed to be a v good book

Ten years ago, I read @ramit's book, 'I Will Teach You To Be Rich'.

One key thing stuck with me:

Saving is about percentages, not dollars.

.1% negotiated off your home mortgage or car loan interest is 10x more impactful than cutting out $4 lattes.

TIL In 17th century Virginia, felons were publicly branded, but if the felon were wealthy, the brand was a "cold iron" so as to leave no lasting mark on his reputation.

Source: The Wright Brothers

Two hard-working Ohio brothers solved flight as a side hobby. And they did it while professionals were spending 50x as much to fail.

It was largely thought impossible at the time.

Greatest side hustle of all time?

Authors

• Kalidasa
• Abhinavagupta
• Arthashastra of Kautilya -- read R P Kangle's edition
• Machiavelli -- Discourses on Livy, the Prince
• Marcel Proust -- In search of lost time
• Shakespere

History

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Recommendations:

• _sh4 book recco

If you want to learn more about this extraordinary man, you can do no better than pick up my friend @dschwa8059’s superb biography of him.

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

"only 9 percent of Chinese said they'd trust a person of a different nationality. By contrast, 52 percent of Germans said they'd trust such a person, and the number increased to over 65 percent in the United States and Australia."

@fortelabs The Heart of Yoga by T.K.V. Desikachar.

@rorysutherland David Goodhart's Head, Hand, Heart -

Just how much?

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

It turns out i can no longer read space sci-fi books from 60-70s. they feel so primitive

Instead I decided to read "Alien" from original screenplay authors

Here’s the book:

#Python programming tip: In Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley recommends improving your debugging skills by learning how medical detectives unravel thorny public health problems.

The book is engrossing and fun. I highly recommend it.

"I want to live happily in a world I don't understand." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile

RT @nayafia: Hi I wrote a book!

It's called Working in Public, and it's the story of modern open source and its implications for online communities and the creator economy.

Now available for pre-order on Amazon:

@SuspiciousPleb have you read @amychua's World on Fire:

Seems relevant in this context.

@vikasgorur I've been putting off reading this book just because I think I might not be able to take it. Will get to it sometime.

Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur comment on peut estimer un effet causal à partir de données observationnelles, vous pouvez aussi lire ce petit livre. Il y a pas de mal de coquilles, mais il est très clair et vous pouvez trouver un errata en ligne.

neoplatonism also influenced christianity (see: augustine),though in some ways it has competitors such as aristoterlianism.

neoplatonism in its turn has been argued by some to be a direct influence from hindian monism! Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy

Nice, LispWorks Personal edition updated to latest 7.1.2 version. I have an app that I can now include in the next edition of my Common Lisp book that uses CAPI - happy, happy, joy, joy :-)

@razibkhan @cigardubey Surendranath Dasgupta's Histories of Indian Philosophy

@btbytes Bonus that it has a great cover!

The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations