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WillPate : Author Michael Lewis On Wall St's Delusion - 60 Minutes report including full video of the interview
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gleuschk : The hidden math behind Alice in Wonderland - Put that in your hookah and smoke it.
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nelson : Book pirate - Interview with someone in the scene of scanning and OCRing books
Andy Baio : Confessions of a Book Pirate - a voracious reader, each book takes him at least 5 hours to scan, OCR, and proofread
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philgyford : Dallas Clayton - An Awesome Book - If you need a little inspiring, this is like a lovely "think something big!" pill. (via Haddock)
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philgyford : Whole Earth Discipline - Online, annotated version of Stewart Brand's book. Annotations aside, seems to Instapaper quite well.
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nelson : PK Dick on Blade Runner - Amazing letter: "I think, BLADE RUNNER is going to revolutionize our conceptions of what science fiction is and, more, can be. "
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philgyford : Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk - If a pop science book is still too in-depth, this is a nice summary of the ideas in one. (Not sure where this is via as I belatedly read it on Instapaper.)
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deusx : Introduction to Information Retrieval - "The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University and at the University of Stuttgart. "
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Andy Baio : Christian Swinehart's epic Choose Your Own Adventure visualizations - everything here is amazing, from the animations to the playable visualization of Meretzky's Zork: The Cavern of Doom
deusx : cyoa - "many choices At its atomic level, a cyoa book is a collection of numbered pages of a few different types. Most pages tell a portion of the story, then finish by telling you to jump to another page. A smaller number of pages tell a conclusion to the
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Andy Baio : Jono Bacon's The Art of Community released for free download under CC license - looks fantastic and worth buying [via]
Rod Begbie : The Art of Community - Really interesting-looking O'Reilly book on building and managing communities, available for free download as a CC-licensed PDF. [via] #
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philgyford : Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - Sounds like an interesting, free, online book for those of us unlikely to learn real programming any time soon. (via Infovore)
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joshua : Elements Of Statistical Learning: now free pdf
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deusx : Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious - NYTimes.com - "The Red Book is not an easy journey — it wasn’t for Jung, it wasn’t for his family, nor for Shamdasani, and neither will it be for readers. The book is bombastic, baroque and like so much else about Carl Jung, a willful oddity, synched with an
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gleuschk : What Happens at the End of Infinite Jest? (or, the Infinite Jest ending explained) (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - the most plausible theory I've seen
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WillPate : Book Recommendations by Warren Buffett
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nelson : Choose your own Adventure analysis - Great flowchart of one of the old kid's books. Worth viewing the PDF. The structure is quite complex and rewards multiple visits.
Andy Baio : Visualization of a Choose Your Own Adventure book's outcomes - 8 out of 42 endings were favorable
Rod Begbie : Choose Your Own Adventure - Most Likely You'll Die - Mapping out the paths of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Chance of death: Nearly 50%! [via] #
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philgyford : New Liberal Arts // Snarkmarket & Revelator Press - A free PDF book on many interesting-sounding topics. No idea what the quality's like, but it's another PDF to never quite get round to reading. (via Kottke)
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gleuschk : SEEDMAGAZINE.COM § MATHEMATICIANS: An Outer View of the Inner World - Eriko Hironaka: 'whatever mathematics is, it must be beautiful'
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deusx : Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Cory Doctorow’s <em>Makers</em>, Part 1 (of 81)
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deusx : Writing a Technical Book - "Based on the amount of time we put into the book this works out at something slightly below slave labour rates. Never write a technical book for the money. No really. Spend your evenings in McDonalds if you need extra cash."
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Rod Begbie : Say Everything | By Scott Rosenberg - New book about the history and future of blogging. Sample chapters are pretty interesting. [via] #
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nelson : Codex Sinaiticus - 4th century Bible has been digitized and made available online
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philgyford : Flickr: gruntzooki's stuff tagged with perfectphrasesfordifficultsitautionsatwork - This looks like a manual for Pretend Office.
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philgyford : Seth's Blog: Textbook rant - Why textbooks prescribed for college courses are a bad thing: "They are expensive ... They don't make change ... They don't sell the topic ... They are incredibly impractical." (via Preoccupations)
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