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The Player of Games

Published 2016-12-17 3 min read
I read quite a few books this year that belong on canonical “Best of Science Fiction” lists: The City and the Stars, The Three Body Problem, and so forth. These were all quite good books, but – for reasons I’ll shortly outline – another book was head and shoulders above even these well-regarded works.
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Reading List Update

Published 2015-05-02 2 min read
A long time ago I brought up the matter of reading Computer Science books to backfill my education on the matter. My formal education is in Physics and Math, so the thought of reading academic works was actually quite appealing to me.
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