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Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell (2016)

"Haskell is a purely functional language that allows programmers to rapidly develop clear, concise, and …

Wew i finished Graham's book on Haskell. At points it broke my brain but i definitely feel like i understand functional programming better. even though i have finished the book i still need to do a lot of the exercises because i stopped doing them at a point.

it feels like reading it was a valuable exercise but it makes me wonder if another haskell book would've been more suitable for me.

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Bret Easton Ellis: The Shards (Hardcover, 2023, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

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Bret Easton Ellis: The Shards (Hardcover, 2023, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

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Bret Easton Ellis: The Shards (Hardcover, 2023, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

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Richard Lewontin: The Triple Helix (Paperback, 2002, Harvard University Press)

One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic …

Just finished. The book is about the way that environment, organisms, and their DNA are coevolutionary forces that affect the development of each other in a complex way that biology (at the time?) was unable to grapple with.

Lewontin's works generally target what he considers to be reductionism in the biological sciences and has informed my perspective on scientific methodologies quite a bit. I think this little book is a good introduction to his perspectives though the Lecture series "Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA" would also fill that role. If you want anything more indepth the essay collections he did with Richard Levins ("Dialectical Biologist" and "Biology Under the Influence") are very interesting works.

The one thing I'm agnostic about is if the biological sciences still work in the way that he critiques (this book is over 20 years old). In spite of that, I find the ways …