today @joinClubhouse i cited East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute as a way to understand china's premodern influences on greater power relations. @RichardHanania may have a better rec
"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"
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous the author claims fixation on intent/motive etc. is WEIRD
@karatalaamalaka this is what i have: $65 Though it can charge off the "cigarette lighter" port, i use wall power. Costco fills nitrogen for free, & they are quite good about it.. but this is easier.
A Bhagavadgeeta book I am forever grateful to is the @ACKComics . An amazing version that keeps the interest of any kid. A version that can be told as a bed time story to kids.
This is from Little Drummer Girl, only book of his I read.
There's something about that crop of Cold War-era thriller writers--Le Carré, Forsyth, Clancy--that you just don't find today. The world perhaps isn't capable of such fiction anymore.
RT @prathgodbole: Absolute gem of a book, covers the history of the India from 1770-1800, but more importantly, covers the transition from a feudal continent to nascent ideas of a nation state and a republic of elected officers ( even if by a small %) long before Brits
"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."
@btbytes if you want a good shop knife, these are nice in bright orange. 4 inches (so 1/2 inch longer than a swiss army knife). But no folding nonsense. But seriously, you can't go wrong with orange.
#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.
The #IEEE Information Theory Society is proud to present The Bit Player (@BitPlayerMovie), the first feature documentary about the father of the information age, #ClaudeShannon. Now available on Amazon Prime Video: #TheBitPlayer
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.
@deech It seems as though some HDMI switches have a remote "switch" button, like this one: , if you wire them together it may be stable enough for daily use
reading Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the end of China's last Golde Age makes it clear why Chinese nationalists are so suspicious of the West. i mean basic facts known. but the details make it more visceral