Books
Here are the books that I have taken the time to create metadata and/or notes for.
You walked past the rendered SVG on your way here.
A revisitation of a good book.
I made a couple naïve attempts at trying to master git circa 2024.
After obtaining the UGrad, I have had a couple months of unemployment to improve my Software Engineering skills.
As such I read more than a small selection of this book and produced the following flashcards1:
"Deep Work: Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit." —Cal Newport
The radio was a clue. You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time.
A good introductory book to scout all the linux command-line features. Some pretty modern stuff in here too.
ch1: essential concepts ch2: file commands ch3: system administration basics ch4: filesystem maintainence ch5: networking commands ch6: getting stuff done
this page pairs well with Linux Commands
| commands |
|---|
| wc |
| cat |
| od |
| ls |
| grep |
| mplayer |
| df |
| git |
| svn |
| split |
| column |
| pandoc |
| ffmpeg |
| pandoc |
| snap |
| flatpak |
| mdadm |
| lvcreate |
| zfs |
| gpg |
| echo |
| curl |
| tar |
This was the first serious fiction book that I ever read. It was 604 pages long, and a major struggle for me to persist through1. I effortfully adorned the pages with coloured tags all throughout. There was a vague scheme but the yellow represented words I did not know the definitions of at the time. The words and their definitions are now tabulated:
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I drew upon my uncle’s completion of the novel for persistence. ↩︎
Not every book deserves / warrants the extraction of 300 quotes with analysis.
Instead some books are those layered in rhetoric to deliver the 10, or in this case 13 most important facts:
LLMs?
Dante, lost in a dark wood at midlife, is led by the poet Virgil and then by Beatrice through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, tracing the soul’s journey from sin to beatitude.
Inferno
Dante meets Virgil at the edge of Hell and passes the gate:
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch' intrate.
They descend the nine circles, seeing sin in its fixed, final form.
- The lustful (e.g. Francesca da Rimini) swept forever by storm.
- The gluttonous, misers and wasters, trapped in grotesque parodies of their desires.
- The wrathful choking in the Styx.
- The heretics (like Farinata) in burning tombs.
- The violent in boiling blood or transformed into thorny trees.
- The fraudulent (e.g. Ulysses, flatterers, hypocrites, thieves) punished with fitting counter-images of their deceit.
- Traitors such as Count Ugolino gnawing the skull of his betrayer.
At the frozen pit, Lucifer is locked in ice, chewing the worst traitors. Dante and Virgil climb past Satan’s body and emerge under the stars: