RE: What are you reading?
March 13, 2014 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2014 at 9:58 am by Alex K.)
I'm currently reading Richard Carrier's "Proving History", which gives a great understandable introduction to Bayes' theorem and using it to judge the likelihood of alleged historical events and facts. It has eye opener qualities, because he shows that when thinking about such things, you are either using Bayes theorem already without knowing it, or you are doing it wrong. He then goes on to show how to make well-defined judgements about historical hypotheses by using it properly.
Also, I'm struggling with Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. He follows the question why culture has developed at such different paces in different parts of the world (in a nutshell: why did e.g. the Spanish crush the American empires, and not vice versa). It's excellently written, but at times a brutal fact dump, hence the struggling part.
As happens quite often, I'm not reading fiction at the moment. The last two books of fiction I've read were Solaris by Lem (so much more to my tastes than the movies), and Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (hey, everyone is allowed one guilty pleasure, ok?).
Also, I'm struggling with Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. He follows the question why culture has developed at such different paces in different parts of the world (in a nutshell: why did e.g. the Spanish crush the American empires, and not vice versa). It's excellently written, but at times a brutal fact dump, hence the struggling part.
As happens quite often, I'm not reading fiction at the moment. The last two books of fiction I've read were Solaris by Lem (so much more to my tastes than the movies), and Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (hey, everyone is allowed one guilty pleasure, ok?).
