"A For Andromeda" (The book is excellent, and i am sure the forthcoming TV version will be complete garbage as all student drama projects on the BBC tend to be.
I'm glad I havent got digital TV. (My cave doesn't have good reception).
Weirdly enough I was reading that last night and have just this second successfully created a Turing Machine!
It is indeed a small world.
This TM simply sets every 2nd bit until an already-set bit is found...
The trackbar sets the starting position of the TM, then hit "Init".
To see the TM in action, repeatedly hit "Step" until you get a messagebox. You can see the data in the textbox changing after each step click, see the Immediate window for stepping debug info.
I must remember to stop posting relevant info in CC. It's becoming a habit.
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I cant wait for the movie version of the two I am reading now.
I also read Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" but the movie version was not as good.
Weirdly enough I was reading that last night and have just this second successfully created a Turing Machine!
It is indeed a small world.
This TM simply sets every 2nd bit until an already-set bit is found...
The trackbar sets the starting position of the TM, then hit "Init".
To see the TM in action, repeatedly hit "Step" until you get a messagebox. You can see the data in the textbox changing after each step click, see the Immediate window for stepping debug info.
I must remember to stop posting relevant info in CC. It's becoming a habit.
I made an Infinite State Machine last night by accident so I threw it away. Then there were a lot of black four-by-fours driving around outside my house for a few minutes and then nothing for the rest of the evening. Weird really, I can't remember what happened between 6pm and 9pm yesterday.
"A For Andromeda" (The book is excellent, and i am sure the forthcoming TV version will be complete garbage as all student drama projects on the BBC tend to be.
I'm glad I havent got digital TV. (My cave doesn't have good reception).
That sure is an oldie but a goody. I believe it was written around 1960.
I also read both of those, you should read "Discourses" as well if you haven't already.
Originally Posted by Zarathustra
I now go alone, my disciples! Ye also now go away, and alone! So will I have it.
Verily, I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra! And better still: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he hath deceived you.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar. And why will ye not pluck at my wreath?
Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you!
Ye say, ye believe in Zarathustra? But of what account is Zarathustra! Ye are my believers: but of what account are all believers!
Ye had not yet sought yourselves: then did ye find me. So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account.
Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
Verily, with other eyes, my brethren, shall I then seek my lost ones; with another love shall I then love you.
And once again shall ye have become friends unto me, and children of one hope: then will I be with you for the third time, to celebrate the great noontide with you.
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"Godel, Escher, Bach" (Douglas E. Hofstadter) is a really interesting book. Its a sort of philosophy book so it probably counts as "tech" but its really neat and has loads of funky drawings in it. Escher was a complete headcase.
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Re: Which non-tech book are you reading?
Rereading 'The Hobbit' at the moment. Haven't read it since I was about 10 and it's bringing back some happy memories . After that I've got Michael Woods 'In search of the Trojan War' lined up.
I'm trying to read all Harry Potter books in two days
Me and some mates watched all three extended edition Lord of the Rings films in one sitting. Great films but by the end of it I just wanted someone to kill Bilbo and Sam. Anyone... please... kill them... they deserve it.
Me and some mates watched all three extended edition Lord of the Rings films in one sitting. Great films but by the end of it I just wanted someone to kill Bilbo and Sam. Anyone... please... kill them... they deserve it.
I'm planning a Star Wars marathon with some friends.
We'll probably need an entire weekend for that
I also read both of those, you should read "Discourses" as well if you haven't already.
Thanks for the suggestion. Both of the books I mentioned are not in english, but rather in my native language. I'm affraid wouldn't understand half of it if it was in English. I had to google a little to find the titles in English.
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w/o stopping for meals. 
. After that I've got Michael Woods 'In search of the Trojan War' lined up.
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