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aurellem.org is a personal blog at aurellem.org about programming and math. Since 2012, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “The Society of Mind (1988)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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- The Society of Mind (1988)12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2013-11-24
- Prof. Sussman's Reading List7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-04-20
- Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-11-23
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Among technical books, books by Cornelius Lanczos are some of the best (less popular) books I've read. Some quotes from his "The Variational Principles of Mechanics": From the Preface: Many of the scientific treatises of today are formulated in a half-mystical language, as though to impress the reader with the uncomfortable feeling that he is in the permanent presence of a superman. The present book is conceived in…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?”Submitted Prof. Sussman's Reading List as a story · 437 points
HN discussionOn the last point, as Sussmann says: "Bible, Talmud, Koran Read them whether or not you believe them! Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what people were actually thinking back then. Very interesting documents! Bava Metzia 59b is an interesting story!" http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html
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on “Alan Kay's reading list”Submitted Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack as a story · 206 points
HN discussionAn online HTML version of Minsky's book "The Society of Mind," formatted by Dylan Holmes: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
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on “Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures”Submitted Prof. Sussman's Reading List (2016) as a story · 55 points
HN discussionNow I might get stuck reading the author's blog all day: http://aurellem.org/ The Cortex project they having going is stellar and there are some great examples of Clojure-java interop.
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on “Pokemon Yellow hack recodes the game from within”Submitted The Society of Mind (1988) as a story · 49 points
HN discussionHis blog post goes into a little more detail about the actual "code" that runs than the forum post http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html
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on “Pokemon Yellow hack recodes the game from within”Submitted Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSimilar to the opportunity cost model, Minsky proposed that boredom with tedious tasks is a guard against getting stuck in an infinite loop: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/som-6.13.html
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on “Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012)”Submitted The Society of Mind – Marvin Minsky (1988) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOne of the most brilliant applications of this concept is the Pokémon Yellow Total Control Hack: http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html Similarly, arbitrary code execution in Super Mario World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcV9uIY5i4 It's like transforming a chess game into Mikado just by playing it.
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on “Block-breaking game in vim 8.0”Submitted The Society of Mind as a story · 4 points
HN discussion30 links. 27 links to Wolfram and his products. 2 links to Minsky's work. 1 link to a mathematics geneology site (who was who's grad student). The math geneology site (not Wolfram) is pretty cool. Otherwise this is a particularly distasteful way to put out self-aggrandizing plugs. Edit: that math geneology site that shows all the students of Minsky (and their students, etc) -- http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.ed…
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on “Farewell, Marvin Minsky”Submitted Prof. Sussman's Reading List as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI remember a while back there was a post by one of Prof. Sussman's grad students on books he (Sussman) recommends[0]. One of the books (improbably[1] prescribed for high school students) was Space and Time in Special Relativity by David Mermin. Does anyone have experience reading this book as a way to learn special relativity? [0] http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html [1] One of the other books…
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on “Captain Einstein – Experience Relativity in Virtual Reality”Submitted The Society of Mind as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTurns out Pokemon Yellow is also Turing complete! This fantastic hack escapes the game, loads a couple bootstrapping sequences and then proceeds to turn Pokemon into a MIDI player. http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html
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on “Accidentally Turing-Complete”Submitted Prof. Sussman's Reading List as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's neat how many glitches people have found in these particular games. A couple other Pokemon "arbitrary code" hacks (in the Yellow version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnB1fomvAw (Pi day celebration) http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html (proof-of-concept for a clojure-to-pokemon-to-assembly compiler) A "normal" playthrough in which the author shows off various glitches (most without any ki…
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on “Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue”Submitted Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLike ideonexus says, Vinge for sure. You might also try Minsky, particulary Society of Mind ( http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/index.html ).
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on “Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87”Submitted Marvin Minsky - The Society of Mind (1988) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe Society of Mind, where the "hapless" and "unhappy" Autistic Children are "doomed to fail" [1]. [1] http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/som-29.6.html
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on “The Society of Mind (2011)”Submitted Prof. Sussman's Reading List as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGoes well with the nicely formatted, media enhanced web version of the book here: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
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on “The Society of Mind (2011)”Submitted Mathematics Made Hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussion(1) 'Exchange between strangers is a unique feature of us modern hominids' isn't really falsifiable without begging the question or establishing a hard boundary between kin and non-kin, which afaik is currently a function of the problem under consideration (i.e.'kin' might mean something different to geneticist vs. anthropologist vs. linguist vs. classical economist and even something different for a different probl…
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on “Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain”Submitted Discovering Effective Pokémon Types Using Linear Optimization as a story · 2 points
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