ohduran

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by ohduran 7y ago
The history of computer science is dauting. Unlike physics, though, it's the history of incremental innovations that culminated in what we have today. Thus, if you go back in time long enough, things eventually are manageable. A good p
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I stand corrected, that's good counterexample.
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My favourite one is How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler. It was given to me by a friend of mine and I thought "but I already know how to read!" Turned out I didn't. There's so much going on when you look a book closely
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by ohduran 7y ago
That's actually a very good point. The way I see it, although I may be wrong, is that people that have difficulties in reading/writing are a minority, at least in developed countries. Thus, they are nevertheless exposed to a way o
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by ohduran 7y ago
That's a fair point, although I think that writing has been with us for so long that we can no longer say that it's something we haven't adapted our language to. Think of it this way: when you think in terms of defining a wor
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by ohduran 7y ago
Well, I beg to disagree. People keep resorting to the same tricks they've been using for ages to command and control each other. In that sense, nothing has changed: language is a promise we make to each other on a future yet to be seen
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by ohduran 7y ago
Advertising cannot be separated from invading individual's privacy. That's something that as an advertiser you can't do without. Otherwise you are always in the dark in terms of how effective your advertising is. I wrote on t
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by ohduran 7y ago
Upcoming generations will think of us as the society who was afraid of being bored. The book Deep Work by Cal Newport is a good read on this topic, but I'm sure it isn't the only one. You can find my detailed notes on it here: ht
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by ohduran 7y ago
In any case, I still believe that Cal Newport's Deep Work is a good reading for someone who wants practical advice on Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Römer’s 1993 paper. I wrote a review in detail of Deep Work that you can see here: https
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by ohduran 8y ago
bbc is now bbzzfeed
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Good one, but the part where we as a society collectively define what 'violet' and 'purple' means is lacking. It's all been covered in a wonderful book called Through the Language Glass, by Guy Deutsch. Find my note
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Thank God, I've tried to solve this for quite some time now. You're the man!!
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Created using Jekyll, by the way, as I see lots of you posting the creation process.
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https://alvaroduran.me My personal site, mostly about the books I've read and the lessons I've learnt. So far I've covered books such as Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Skin in the Game, Deep Work, or Through the
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by ohduran 8y ago
Shameless plug, but the book 'Through the Language Glass', by Guy Deutscher covers this and more about language and thought in a very entertaining way. Check out the book, or find my notes about it here: alvaroduran.me/throug