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If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've got to have models in your head. And you've got to array your experience - both vicarious and direct - on this latticework of models.
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shurain rated Permutation City: 4 stars
Permutation City by Greg Egan
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in …
shurain rated Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: 3 stars
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Carlo Rovelli
These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth …
shurain rated Foundations of machine learning: 5 stars
shurain rated Deep Learning: 4 stars
shurain rated Machine learning: 4 stars
shurain rated The Blank Slate : The Modern Denial of Human Nature: 5 stars
The Blank Slate : The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker, Steven Pinker
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea …
Ringworld by Larry Niven (S.F.Masterworks S.)
shurain rated The Dark Forest: 5 stars
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林, pinyin: Hēi'àn sēnlín) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. …
