My Current Reading List
What am i reading these days?
Books
- The Emperor’s new mind by Roger Penrose
- Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V S Ramachandran- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins- Godel, Escher, Bach:an Eternal Golden Braid( GEB)by Douglas Hofstadter
Articles:
- From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems- How To Think?- Why we’re powerless to resist grazing on endless web data ? Other interesting things:
Excerpt from nytimes eulogy to Gary Gygax:
GARY GYGAX died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it.
I’m not talking about the cosmological, Big Bang part. Everyone who reads blogs knows that a flying spaghetti monster made all that. But Mr. Gygax co-created the game Dungeons & Dragons, and on that foundation of role-playing and polyhedral dice he constructed the social and intellectual structure of our world….
We live in Gary Gygax’s world. The most popular books on earth are fantasy novels about wizards and magic swords. The most popular movies are about characters from superhero comic books. The most popular TV shows look like elaborate role-playing games: intricate, hidden-clue-laden science fiction stories connected to impossibly mathematical games that live both online and in the real world. And you, the viewer, can play only if you’ve sufficiently mastered your home-entertainment command center so that it can download a snippet of audio to your iPhone, process it backward with beluga whale harmonic sequences and then podcast the results to the members of your Yahoo group.