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Ask HN: What is HN reading?

5 points by startupflix 8y ago

Interested in seeing what others are reading. My pick for now: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities )

rman666 8y ago
Even though it's been out for a while, I finally read "The E-Myth Revisited." The concepts are simple and it gets a little long in the final quarter of the book, but in general it is a fantastic book that every entrepreneur should read at least once.
- startupflix 8y ago
  Link?
  - mindcrime 8y ago
    http://michaelegerbercompanies.com/web/the-e-myth-library/ http://michaelegerbercompanies.com/web/the-e-myth-library/
    - startupflix 8y ago
      Thank you
- mindcrime 8y ago
  it is a fantastic book that every entrepreneur should read at least once Agreed. Not all of the ideas in there will apply to everybody, but I think everybody will find something they can apply. To me the big thing I took away was the importance of finding to "work ON your business, not just work IN your business".
shawn 8y ago
Currently https://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html https://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng... I just finished Sphere, and came away a bit disappointed. Before that I read I Am Legend, which was excellent! It has nothing to do with the movie at all.
mindcrime 8y ago
At any given time, I have about 20-30 books tagged as "currently reading" on Goodreads[0]. So, something I've started, read at least a bit of and then stuck a bookmark in. Realistically, at any given time there are 3 or 4 books that I'm dedicating meaningful cycles to and expect to finish "soon'ish". Right now the ones I'm seriously working on are: Superintelligence - I've heard so much about this book and keep hearing people talk about the dangers of AI, and while I already have an opinion on the subject, I thought it would be interesting to read what Bostrom had to say. Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem-Solving - an older book on an approach to automated Abductive Inference called "Parsimonious Covering Theory". I'm not just "reading" the book, as in reading it straight through like a novel, I'm actually working on re-implementing PCT using a more modern software stack, with a goal of doing some research into possible ways to use abductive inference in conjunction with other techniques (neural networks, reinforcement learning, graph-based knowledge-representation, etc.) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - such a class in the field, I felt like it was time to finally sit down and the read the whole book, cover to cover. [0]: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33942804-phillip-rhodes https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33942804-phillip-rhodes
- startupflix 8y ago
  Thank you so much. Following your good reads account.

5 points by startupflix 8y ago

Interested in seeing what others are reading. My pick for now: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities )

rman666 8y ago

Even though it's been out for a while, I finally read "The E-Myth Revisited." The concepts are simple and it gets a little long in the final quarter of the book, but in general it is a fantastic book that every entrepreneur should read at least once.

startupflix 8y ago
Link?
- mindcrime 8y ago
  http://michaelegerbercompanies.com/web/the-e-myth-library/ http://michaelegerbercompanies.com/web/the-e-myth-library/
  - startupflix 8y ago
    Thank you
mindcrime 8y ago
it is a fantastic book that every entrepreneur should read at least once Agreed. Not all of the ideas in there will apply to everybody, but I think everybody will find something they can apply. To me the big thing I took away was the importance of finding to "work ON your business, not just work IN your business".

shawn 8y ago

Currently https://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html https://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng... I just finished Sphere, and came away a bit disappointed. Before that I read I Am Legend, which was excellent! It has nothing to do with the movie at all.

mindcrime 8y ago

At any given time, I have about 20-30 books tagged as "currently reading" on Goodreads[0]. So, something I've started, read at least a bit of and then stuck a bookmark in. Realistically, at any given time there are 3 or 4 books that I'm dedicating meaningful cycles to and expect to finish "soon'ish". Right now the ones I'm seriously working on are: Superintelligence - I've heard so much about this book and keep hearing people talk about the dangers of AI, and while I already have an opinion on the subject, I thought it would be interesting to read what Bostrom had to say. Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem-Solving - an older book on an approach to automated Abductive Inference called "Parsimonious Covering Theory". I'm not just "reading" the book, as in reading it straight through like a novel, I'm actually working on re-implementing PCT using a more modern software stack, with a goal of doing some research into possible ways to use abductive inference in conjunction with other techniques (neural networks, reinforcement learning, graph-based knowledge-representation, etc.) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - such a class in the field, I felt like it was time to finally sit down and the read the whole book, cover to cover. [0]: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33942804-phillip-rhodes https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33942804-phillip-rhodes

startupflix 8y ago
Thank you so much. Following your good reads account.