I like making fun of biblical text because I like quantum mechanics and they have word overlap.
So to control energy I’m reading the corpus hermeticum.
What have you been reading lately? I reread some Hesse and it still holds up.
Not really. It might just help to understand better how things are done. But I have not finished it yet, so too early to tell.
Recently finished (reading twice) a book I recommended on this board: US Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire. I find it interesting how this Which Path to Persia fits into the patterns emerge from that book.
The one about foreign policy suggests that the US behaves how it behaves because only a handful of policy tools are available, and decision makers apply them in "off the shelf" style. The solutions discussed in Which Path to Persia very much describes some of those policy tools, and behaviors of US foreign policy, giving more examples the book lists and examines.
Mid I did like some parts but most of it was just stuff like
“While the cosmos is beautiful, it is not inherently good in the same way that God is, as it is material, mutable, and incomplete”
At first that sounds deep but you look into it and realize that’s just General knowledge that nature is what it is. But still a fascinating read.
I was gifted "The Haunter of the Dark" because I was interested in checking Lovecraft's work and maybe learn more vocabulary. But I started giving up half-way through, the way Lovecraft describes in his stories is migraine worthy, too much wording which makes some of his work a slog to read.
Although this is exactly what I wanted, I can barely read a few pages before I get desinterested again. I also don't allow myself to move on and read something else because someone special gave it to me, so I'm stuck until I finish it.
70% the book was just code I wasn’t going to use and the other bit was stuff like
>“Trees are general purpose nested structures which enable far faster access to ordered sequences than linear lists. Here
>we are going to look at how trees may be modelled using lists. To begin with, we will introduce the standard tree terminology.”
Reminisce on that last section “tree
terminology”, I will probably only use these words in nerd tier jokes or something.
>oh that's you?
Yeah sorry I had a VPN
>I noticed the sage and assumed it's that schizo ameri being mad over nothing again. fair enough tho
Usually I wouldn’t SÄGE over anything but I did for this book.
I read that sentence in one of the first pages and realized I was doomed from the start, but that didn’t stop me from looking up words and terminology I didn’t know. After reading I at least wanted to say I learned something, and I did, a many things. But ultimately it was more looking things up and getting into rabbit holes than actually reading.
I still enjoyed reading and researching, I realized too late that it was a reference book meant to be looked back on, something I most certainly will do!
It was for this thread >>349957 I wanted to see if there was a simpler way to do subtraction in lambda calculus, or even a way to automate it.
For context this is what I would have to Through if I wanted to do it step by step: YouTube: XMP0xkercmo
