07 September 2006
Parsha
Is anyone interested in our choosing a book to read as a group, with a certain assigned portion each week and then a discussion of that portion? And if so, which book appeals. The Aubrey/Maturin books would be naturals, except that they are such well-trod ground. Dickens, Trollope, Shakespeare? Personally, I'd be interested in Cryptonomicon, if we can get AOG to join us.
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Isn't "The Diamond Age" better?
Cryptonomicon or the Barouque Cycle. Life of Pi as a fallback.
I'm in, without preferences.
(Except that I'd rather not do Aubrey/Maturin, having already read the whole series. And except I'd rather do fiction than non-fiction, having overdosed on the latter.)
So except for having two preferences, I have no preferences.
I'm in as long as the book is about monetary theory and government debt or multi-modal particle distributions for simultaneous mapping and localization of mobile robots. Other than that I have no preferences.
Well, Cryptinomicon it is, then.
Oh well, I suppose I had to read it at some point.
Bret;
Is that related to the artillery deployed battlefield network research? That is some wicked cool stuff.
I'm in! I have a signed copy of Cryptonomicon which I partially read about 3 years ago, so I need to start at the beginning anyway. When do we start?
OK great. Let's do it. Let's say two weeks for everyone to get the book and read the first installment. We'll start on Sunday, September 24.
For the first installment, I suggest "Acknowledgements" through "Barrens", or through page 27 in the paperback addition. A couple of questions to think about: what genre is the book? If you answered sf, why? What makes it science fiction? Is the jumping around distracting? Is the math distracting? Do you need to understand the math to understand the book (a question that will become more pressing later on)? How true to life is the character "Alan Turing"? What purpose do the two epigraphs serve? What theme is being set?
I'm happy to host it here, but would you guys prefer a seperate blog with everyone who wants set up as a "team member" so that everyone can post on the main page?
susan's husband asked: "Is that related to the artillery deployed battlefield network research?"
No, just mobile robots trying to figure out where they are and get from here to there. Currently we're working on cleaning robots and agricultural robots (fruit picking) but we think we may have a military related contract sometime next year.
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