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user-inactivated  ·  3627 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00's Reviews #6: Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

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  ·  3627 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Duly noted. Is that your field?

user-inactivated  ·  3627 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.