Have you been reading any books recently anon? I have been reading Foundation Pit by Platonov, it is very good so far !
>>83670367Waiting for my Vyvanse/weird homosexual glownigger pills to kick in, and then I will consume purple drank (imma grip n' sip) and read Nietzsche and maybe Beowulf
>>83670372Vyvanse beens pretty good for reading, though I always take them far too late because I don't want the effects in the morning where I have to work but use them for reading and then go to bed at 2am
>>83670367Hmm I prefer contemporary nonfiction >:)
>>83670402You might want to try something with a shorter duration. I like Vyvanse because it lasts for so long, but stuff like adderal or ritalin only lasts for a few hours. Talk to your doctor if you find your prescription isn't working for you
>>83670441I actually do too! I am just wanting to diversify my readings. What are your favorite non-fiction books?
>>83670448Ritalin did nothing and made me want to go to sleep more. adderal is not available where I live. So I am just trying to find a better point to use vyvanse, tho I did not use it for three weeks because of holidays and doctor being closed so maybe that is why it hits me more right now
>>83670482I read "doctor being closeted" at first kek
>>83670453My favorite non-fiction book is "Information Science and Relational Databases" by Terry Halpin and Tony Morgan. I bought it over a decade ago, but it has technical drawings on how to design AI that doesn't hallucinate. The trick is translating plain English into information graphs. First, you break down complex sentences into simple sentences with only one subject and one verb, e.g. Socrates is mortal -> Person is mortal. This extracts a fact type from a fact. Once you have a collection of fact types, you can run an algorithm to normalize them into a database. So, we now live in a world where plain English is capable of being transformed into databases. My nose is in it all the time.
>>83670511Has it been used majorly before? Seems fascinating though, I have been following friends and some accounts on Twitter on how they try to work with machine learning to do models and it is definitively something I want to get more into. I am right now more focused on theology, history, sociology and philosophy for non-fiction works with increasing focus on economics since I want to start studying it.
>>83670523Also btw: what is the argument of the internet book you posted? Internet is something I like reading about, but find most works on it incredibly poor.
>>83670511Oops the part about abstraction got deleted and jammed next to the atomic fact type part, oh well>>83670523>Has it been used majorlyFor database design, this is the way that people do it besides "just toss shit in and pray that we don't need to refactor later." There isn't software that does this (besides mine).>>83670528It's that corporations have always been trying to make things worse. They've always been yanking the "make things shitty" lever as hard as possible, but the ability to go somewhere else or make your own things used to undermine that lever's effectiveness. As consumer options and rights run out, it becomes more effective.
>>83670367Hartshorne.
>>83670560Not sure I buy the mechanism. It is much easier in of itself to now build alternatives than it used to be I would say, it seemed to me the difference is internet grew it increasingly included less-skilled users which allowed algorithms to increasingly determine things over self-built cultures.RIP to the Dilbert guy.
>>83670367i can't focus on books when it's on my pc and slop is a click away. physical is too expensive because i live in shithole.
>>83670575The lever isn't the mechanism, it controls the mechanism. The mechanism itself is to start by providing value to businesses and customers as a platform, then screwing the businesses, then the customers.It might be easy for someone to build a social networking website, but you're probably not going to convince the world to come over from Facebook.
>>83670606Why would companies be interested in screwing their customers, that seems to me incoherent in of itself if the goal is value creation/maximisation.
I started to read a series of books started in the 80's. Typically if I read a fictionanl books I like to jot down a word to look up in the dictionary. This is just hazy shit I vaguely remember before I had a real understanding of things and a lot of the time it's just not aged well. I'm mostly guessing context. Even if you look it up it's so old there are little no no references left. You know if you found one of those female novels people use to joke about with fabio on the cover it'd probably hold up better than the bullshit some of these things come up with. A lot of it is just like a dude quiting his day job and describing consumerist shit that went out of style 40 years ago and you can maybe find a vague reference about it. They spend like half the book talking about going to a place that doesn't exist on a google map, a fashion style that was expensive at the time and they're like I'm not a dork I have a weird count from my publisher to describe this other dork shit that doesn't exist anymore while trying to explain why this dude came off as a dork at the time. It's interesting enough they throw in some red herrings here or there and some of it seems contrived but then it wraps around and you're like oh yeah they did add some hints there and I wasn't reading this to guess it but I really assumed some stuff beforehand and I kinda wanted to know how it ended.
>>83670619I really kinda miss a lot of stories where people had to find a payphone. There is a major development and I need to try to contact this guy it's urgent. Except there are no smart phones or cell phones and car phones were wildly luxurious even into the 90's. So it adds some plot element the person is kinda stranded to their own devices and trying to figure shit out.
>>83670656The creation of non-stationary phones ruined the world in my opinion
>>83670610>the goal is value creation/maximisation.The goal is profit maximization, not value maximization. What value does anyone get from a 30% Apple fee that can be avoided by buying direct instead?
>>83670676I mean it fucked up a lot of movies, you can really date them to we need to find a phone, or like there is a contrived circumstance this isn't working. I kinda like when it's more of a thriller type mystery and you're just trying to contact this guy to see if your theory is panning out and he's like nah you're jumping to conclusions and even if you weren't it's not like I can do anything about it
>>83670679Phones being under oligopoly conditions and so firms demanding rent from users does not really reflect the internet particularly which is largely free nowadays.
>>83670367the qur'an with a study guide and some additional literature.White b t w
>>83670721Amazon and Facebook are also part of the internet, and the same model certainly applies to them. Why are you being so argumentative? I hate the British.
>>83670780I am actually German! :-D Facebook e.g. seems to me more reflective due to mass of consumers being "low-skilled" that growth requires good products, but growth maintenance allows minimisation of costs - i.e. you have to explain why consumers put up with it, and a cultural explanation makes more sense to me. In the 1990s most people had to put in an effort to use the internet, now it is largely on phones or tablets where it is easy to use, with an extremely limited space for any type of learning of technology itself. I just find the internet interesting, but also feel a lot of usual arguments of everything getting worse do not really hit it particularly well. (E.g. those who still use computers in a major way for the internet, which is rare now, often still experience the internet fairly similar to early AOL internet through Discord.)
>>83670813I'm having trouble understanding what you mean. I mostly used AOL to chat with females to make genital to genital contact, among other things. Why else would you use a calculator doing hyper specific things if not trying to have sex with women?
>>83670813It's also difficult for Europe to pull away from American companies because they're not allowed to reverse-engineer code. For example, Europeans rely on American database technology such as Oracle, and can't reverse-engineer it in order to switch to something else. It's also prohibitive to rewrite systems, and so Oracle can jack up prices. This is why Larry Ellison is so rich.
>>83670837Wrt AOL I meant in the sense that intensive online social communication is mostly individualised into small groups now through e.g. discord, which is not too dissimilar from AOL era. >>83670863There is the issue of how the internet companies do not really compete due to state regulations shielding them, but also the way "internet culture" has changed, and I think they are not often distinguished. (E.g. Amazon has not really shittified particularly, beyond AI stuff that is new frontier, but expanded consumer offerings to further monopolise things - very different from what people complain about with a lot of rest of internet). Generally, I think for internet power-users it is not too different from the early internet at this point in a very individualised form of communication and community that exists now. The problem is the destruction of forums, imageboards, and other more collective forms of internet. In part it is a technical consequence of the death of computers as something you use for the internet, and also the lower barrier to using the internet undermining any collective cultures online.The people I know who mostly used SA still know their posting friends from 20 years ago as close friends; those who used AOL lost a lot of them on the way. With Discord etc. it will be like the second too.
>>83670924wrt?I mean I don't have a problem with discord it's just whenever you try to meet up with these girls they never have their own place or they're super paranoid they're boyfriend is going to show up
>>83670924Right? I don't have a Facebook account, so Facebook's enshittification doesn't effect me beyond when they let people organize to try to overturn democratic elections. You make a very good point. The internet isn't shitty at all if you log off and don't read it.
>>83670966Yeah, like if you are a power user 1990s and today are not very different honestly. You have a very personalised set of online communication, people get lost easily and people are mostly in small groups or one-to-one communication with a lack of an overarching culture. It Is worse than 2010s in my view, but that is because I think imageboards and forums are better but it is not like they are gone. You can make an account on something awful and it is still decently active. >>83670957Sure thing, I just meant people doom about the modern internet when it seems pretty similar to AOL era really if you use it in a more intensive way. Which is different from the secular decline some present it as. Also seems to me TikTok or something is better avenue for what you want considering discord users will be more aware of internet dynamics somewhat.
I am without reading literature for 14 days now, but I will probably buy "Dorian Gray" today. I've been reading a book from Mircea Eliade though, "A History of Religious Ideas: Volume 1". I also want to read "And then there were none", from Christie, since it's probably her most famous works and many authors were inspired by the book or the author, such as the creators of Danganronpa, Zero Escape series, Persona 4 and Bungo Stray Dogs.
Hey hey hey! Bump. I don't want this thread to die without anyone replying to my post!
>>83671182How is the book by Eliade? He has been on my list but never gotten to him yet
>>83671182Did ya get it yet? I like novels about aesthetes but for me it's huysmans. Anime also got me into christie, hyouka specifically.
most books i read i have to get chatgpt to explain them afterwards hes like my patience nerdy bf
>>83673590what are some books you have read recently ?
