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comment by nowaypablo

I read a quarter of this book and understood nothing. It sits on my desk for girls to see and be impressed by. That doesn't work either, by the way. Fuck this book.

Also my idol/hero family friend is a straight-up intellectual machine, phd in physics and turned $200 and an illegal immigration turned into fat stackz in the bank with his own hedge fund to boot. He's the only one I know who even attempted to pretend enjoying this book, and says it's the greatest piece of literature he's read since Principia Mathematica.. Anyway fuck this book





user-inactivated  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    He's the only one I know who even attempted to pretend enjoying this book, and says it's the greatest piece of literature he's read since Principia Mathematica..

A famously unreadable effort, and one of the few books of which I would say it is much more important to know the arguments than to have read it proper.

Unless you're talking about Bertrand Russell's thing.

user-inactivated  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No one reads Bertrand Russell's thing. You pick it up, if you are into logic, and you are very impressed that he and Whitehead toughed it out as long as they did. Then you read Bourbaki instead.

user-inactivated  ·  3623 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Duly noted. Is that your field?

user-inactivated  ·  3623 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Logic and probability were. Working on an AI degree now, which is more or less the same thing with more debugging. I do love pedantry.

nowaypablo  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nope meant Newton's. Not even gonna bother opening that till college. Sadly at the rate I was going growing up (read the Republic in 7th grade and wrote a 12-page paper about it)– and despite attributing all the knowledge and capacity I have today to the books I read when I was 12– I have absolutely no time to gain knowledge from reading because I'm too busy with school. The fucking irony.