My Goodreads Review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
There’s a reason Richard Feynman is the most famous physics lecturer of all time. No, it’s not because he held his office hours in a strip club (though he did) or that he helped develop the atomic bomb (though he did) or that he openly abused drugs, attended [...]
Book Review: Feynman Lectures on Computation by Richard Feynman
June 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: computer science · computers
Book Review: The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsche
March 27th, 2009 No Comments
My Goodreads Review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is David Deutsch’s plea to the scientific world to tear down the separation between theory and their own worldviews and truly own the picture of reality that modern physics has painted for us. He begs that we take our theories seriously as fundamental paradigms and not [...]
Tags: computer science · evolution · physics · quantum theory
SICP: Intro
July 13th, 2008 4 Comments
Recently I embarked on a quest to read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) at the recommendation of a friend to whom I had expressed an interest in learning programming. I had planned on powering through the text in about a month but soon realized that would supplant sleeping in my life. [...]
Tags: computer science · lisp · mit · programming · scheme · SICP