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I'm really interested in like, "Board Theory" these days
McTaggart:
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--- Quote from: Cernunnos on 02 Jan 2011, 07:55 ---Presently I am reading a very interesting if frustrating book called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
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huh, i was reading a david foster wallace interview from around the time he released his book about math (a book called everything and more: a compact history of ∞), and he said basically the exact same thing about the book you're reading, jon: that it's good but also that dude's ability to lay out his arguments is scattershot. in terms of pop-math books i want to read, there's dfw's and charles seife's books on zero and "proofiness." i'm so bad at math though, i'm probably just going to wind up reading jess walter's the zero instead and settle for "close enough"
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Man Everything and more is the best pop maths book I've ever read, and mostly because it doesn't seem completely out of place next to the hard maths textbooks on my shelf. 'cept it's rarely on my shelf because it's probably my most lent out book over all. So much pop maths is awful crap that feels like the author just wrote it to show how smart he was rather than because it's something they want to share or have a real enthusiasm for understanding. Also I guess the way Everything and more is written by an author and not a mathematician probably helps it's readability a whole heap.
Professor Snuggles:
--- Quote from: est on 02 Jan 2011, 19:31 ---There was a Dumbrella element, but I think that's more of an adjunct? We mostly came over from another smaller forum that went belly-up due to the owner kinda going a bit nuts when her online & RL identities collided. We brought over a chest of in-jokes/memes with us (Which were probably derivative of other places? Not sure, that was my first forum, really), but slowly the people who got them moved on somewhere else.
After that the feel of the place definitely became heavily influenced by DB though, no doubt. Dongs, this is why we can't have nice things, and I'm sure a host of other stuff I can't remember or wasn't involved in DB enough to realise are imports. A lot of the threads you started way back were DB imports too, so there was a lot of cross-pollination of ideas.
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Oh I am completely not denying that my posting style and all isn't incredibly influenced by both DB and my hipinion habit, I'm just saying that it definitely has played a role in this board.
Professor Snuggles:
Wait who else on this board frequents hpn? Or like, posts there. Mad curious. That overlap is one of my favorites ever, the constant criticism of QC over there compared with the fact that for some reason people from here still post there. We're all so closeted over there though. I think I admitted it once over there last mark and thankfully the board crashed.
BlahBlah:
--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 03 Jan 2011, 00:41 ---Wait who else on this board frequents hpn? Or like, posts there. Mad curious. That overlap is one of my favorites ever, the constant criticism of QC over there compared with the fact that for some reason people from here still post there. We're all so closeted over there though. I think I admitted it once over there last mark and thankfully the board crashed.
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I read it and post occasionally but, like Tommy said, I only really started reading it when I realised people I liked from Electrical were posting even more, and sometimes better, on hipinion.
I always kinda assumed that apart from you nobody from here went there much.
jwhouk:
I'm a refugee of Halfpixel myself. Still do some stuff over at Halforums, which was the fan-started response when ThaKurtz and Straub went nuclear on the forums.
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