Thanks to the good samaritan who returned the book I left on the bus this morning to the library where it belongs. As I was checking online to see if the book had been returned I realized that libraries already are an internet of things. The past is the future is the present.
I just recently finished Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. The novel is dedicated to taking the consequences of apocalypse to a logical and horrifying conclusion. Out of this narrative innovation, stripped of the usual kinds of motivation, two characters stark efforts of survival play out against the cruelty of necessity. Despite what the back cover [...]
I always joke that Web 3.0 will be the dead tree revolution. The more I think about it, however, the more I see a resurgence of print media as the next big thing in information. The internet is a sea of the miscellaneous. Sure we have tags and categories and various improvisational structures that we [...]
Researchers have definitely gone from being information seekers to being careful information filterers. Along with this trend, some say books are dead. I don’t think this is true. I have found that books are actually the best way to filter information. The amount of filtering required is inversely proportional to the quality of the source. [...]
I’ve become increasingly convinced that I need to understand both applied and theoretical Bayesian inference. Since the department offers no courses on the subject (Engineering might, but that will have to wait for another semester), I’m collecting library books that deal (sometimes tangentially) with the subject. The library has a lot of books that have [...]