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Comment by mindcrime

1 day ago

My goal for the year was 15 books. I've finished 14 so far and should finish #15 in the next couple of days if all goes well. Here's what I've read (it's a mix of fiction and non-fiction) in reverse order by completion date:

Nash Falls - David Baldacci

Exit Strategy - Lee Child & Andrew Child

Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry - Marvin Minsky & Seymour Papert

We are Legion (We are Bob) - Dennis Taylor

Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Volume 1: Foundations - David Rumelhart & Jay McClelland

Semantic Information Processing - Marvin Minsky

Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change - Andy Clark

Associative Networks: The Representation and Use of Knowledge of Computers - Nicholas Findler

The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science - Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, Boicho N. Kokinov (eds)

Similarity and Analogical Reasoning - Stella Vosniadou (ed)

Never Flinch - Stephen King

The Bad Weather Friend - Dean Koontz

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind - Gary Marcus

After Death - Dean Koontz

The 15th book that I hope to finish will be:

Principles of Semantic Networks - John F. Sowa (ed)

The bobiverse books are fantastic, would suggest continuing the series as it gets even better

  • Yeah, I've been hearing that sentiment, and riffs on it, here on HN for years. But it took me this long to finally get around to actually picking up Book 1. I enjoyed it a lot though, and definitely plan to continue with the series.