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An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1823(bcmullins.github.io)
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Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. It's a bit biased and is rough around the edges, but it's a fun journey each time. I read it first in undergrad and pick it up again every few years.
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Each year, I put together lists of the books and articles that I found most interesting. This started out as a way to motivate myself to take better notes when I read. Now, I occasionally also get a nice message from someone who stumbled on
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Interesting Books I've Read in 2023(bcmullins.github.io)
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It's funny to see this posted because I'm working on writing up my list right now to put up tomorrow. I've done this each December for a few years now. Here's my list from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io&#x2
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Looking forward to checking out the first issue!
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Loved it as well. Big fan of coffee from the gnomes!
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+1 for Barbara Tuchman (A Distant Mirror)
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Each year, I put up a list of the books I've enjoyed during the year but haven't gotten this year's list up. Here are my lists from prior years: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2022/ Here a
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Obsidian - I moved from Trello to Obsidian for notetaking this year and it has been a great choice. Well worth the transition pain.
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An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1873(bcmullins.github.io)
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A few years ago, I got really into orchestrating LED accent lighting in my small studio apartment without going the Phillips route. With a few Alexa commands and some switches, I had multiple configurations that turned on when I woke up and
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Thank you for blogs.hn! I'm a big fan of exploring what people on here are up to.
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Reading research from the past. There are several papers/books in math, economics, logic, philosophy, etc. from the past 200 years that I've been interested in reading but have never had a structured plan to go about it. I've
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For those interested in recent systematic discussions of foundations, I find Penelope Maddy's recent work compelling. For instance, see the paper "What do we want a foundation to do?" [0] [0] https://sites.socsci.u
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System76. I bought a laptop that had some serious issues with internals. They helped me troubleshoot it via email by tearing it down and putting it back together. I was so impressed that I bought a mini PC from them too.
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It's posts like this one that initially brought me to HN. Especially for papers outside of my research areas, there's not a lot out there for good recommendations.
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Earlier this year, I found a big yellow blob in my garden with no idea what it was. It disappeared the next day (basically baked in the sun) then reappeared a few days later several yards away. The color in person was really striking! It tu
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Just finished Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street (1873). Bagehot was the editor of The Economist in the 1860s and 1870s. This book sketches out London's banking and finance system and, particularly, how liquidity crises are handled.
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I wrote about this article a few years ago [0]. It's a fun read, but I'm still not entirely convinced by its critique. Here was my conclusion at the time: At its worst, this article is the amusing grumblings of a disgruntled rese
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The lost women of early Analytic philosophy(aeon.co)
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Really impressive! I put one my dumb papers in and it explained the theorems well. I wish reviewers were this generous!
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There's clearly not a one-size-fits-all answer to this. I am a big advocate of reading widely and often especially during your early career. It's surprising how often tidbits from seemingly unrelated areas help one contextualize s
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The SEP covers vast amounts of philosophy and most of the articles are high quality and written by people who are knowledgeable about the particular topic. Is it perfect? No. But it's a good starting point.
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Should have mentioned this above, but the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an invaluable resource.
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This is difficult to answer without knowing one's background. A fun introduction that's sometimes used in Intro to Philosophy courses is Coffee Meets Philosophy by Bruce Waller [0]. It tries to give the reader context in introduci
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Pop!_OS at home. It works well and is nice to look at.
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Nice! If you ever want to chat about DP stuff, feel free to shoot me an email.
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Here are a few papers on some scattered DP topics. I'm working on a guide to learning DP now similar to one I've written on measure theory in the past. The Matrix Mechanism (2015) https://people.cs.umass.edu/~mikla
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Each year, I put up lists of interesting papers I've read across CS, math, econ, etc. Here's the list from 2022: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-articles-2022/ . That should give you dozens of recommen

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