bookshelf
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)
Resources
Short reads
- How to slow down scientific progress, According to Leo Szilard
- The importance of stupidity in scientific research, an essay by Martin A. Schwartz
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Empirical Standards Checklist Generator based on broader research trying to define what makes a good paper (and “fixing peer review”), sent to me by Theresa who says:
Anyways, it really helps me read + understand + evaluate papers more effectively! Unfortunately, some of the questions don’t really match HPC, so adapting it to HPC could be worthwhile :)
- The pragmatic programmer by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
- Playing with infinity (originally Játék a végtelennel) by Péter Rózsa
- Code Complete (2nd edition) by Steve McConnell
