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This book assumes no background in programming, but the reader who finishes the book will have learned about 60 percent of a first semester computer science course, including much of the Python programming language. The audience is not only math majors, but also physics, engineering, environmental science, finance, chemistry, economics, data science, and computer science majors. Many of the book's examples are drawn from those fields. Filled with “challenges” for the students to test their progress, the book is also ideal for self-study.

What's New in the Second Edition:

In 2019, Sage transitioned from Python 2 to Python 3, which changed the syntax in several significant ways, including for the print command. All the examples in this book have been rewritten to be compatible with Python 3. Moreover, every code block longer than four lines has been placed in an archive on the book's website http://www.sage-for-undergraduates.org that is maintained by the author, so that the students won't have to retype the code! Other additions include...

The number of “challenges” for the students to test their own progress in learning Sage has roughly doubled, which will be a great boon for self-study.
There's approximately 150 pages of new content, including:
New projects on Leontief Input-Output Analysis and on Environmental Science
New sections on Complex Numbers and Complex Analysis, on SageTex, and on solving problems via Monte-Carlo Simulations.
The first three sections of Chapter 1 have been completely rewritten to give absolute beginners a smoother transition into Sage.
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Because there is so much misinformation about antifascism, I've put together this thread with some of the most important reading on the subject. I'm starting with my upcoming anthology book on the subject, with over 30 contributors. *thread*]]></description>
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The term ‘photomediations’ brings together the hybrid ontology of ‘photomedia’ and the fluid dynamism of ‘mediation’. The framework of photomediations adopts a process- and time-based approach to images by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political flows of data that produce photographic objects.

Photomediations: A Reader is part of a larger editorial and curatorial project called Photomediations: An Open Book, whose goal is to redesign a coffee-table book as an online experience. A version of this Reader also exists online in an open ‘living’ format, which means it can be altered, added to, mashed-up, re-versioned and customized. The Reader is published in collaboration with Europeana Space, and in association with Jonathan Shaw, Ross Varney and Michael Wamposzyc.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Similarity has long been excluded from reality in both the analytical and continental traditions. Because it exists in the aesthetic realm, and because aesthetics is thought to be divorced from objective reality, similarity has been confined to the prison of the subject. In The Being of Analogy, Noah Roderick unleashes similarity onto the world of objects. Inspired by object-oriented theories of causality, Roderick argues that similarity is ever present at the birth of new objects. This includes the emergent similarity of new mental objects, such as categories—a phenomenon we recognize as analogy. Analogy, Roderick contends, is at the very heart of cognition and communication, and it is through analogy that we can begin dismantling the impossible wall between knowing and being.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What is a complex system? Although “complexity science” is used to understand phenomena as diverse as the behavior of honeybees, the economic markets, the human brain, and the climate, there is no agreement about its foundations. In this introduction for students, academics, and general readers, philosopher of science James Ladyman and physicist Karoline Wiesner develop an account of complexity that brings the different concepts and mathematical measures applied to complex systems into a single framework. They introduce the different features of complex systems, discuss different conceptions of complexity, and develop their own account. They explain why complexity science is so important in today’s world.

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    <title>Imani Perry on Twitter: &quot;Ok, here's some of the CRT books that I've taught and read over the years:&quot; / Twitter</title>
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    <link>https://twitter.com/imaniperry/status/1397620035653455874</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ok, here's some of the CRT books that I've taught and read over the years:
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<item rdf:about="https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2021/02/discontinuous-reading.html">
    <title>Laudator Temporis Acti: Discontinuous Reading</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-22T20:05:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Only certain productively perverse uses of the book have transformed it back into a scroll, most notoriously "gripping" novels or "page-turners," where the teleological drive from page to page mitigates against dipping about or turning back (although not, in the case of the unbearable suspense of a mystery, from skipping forward to find out "whodunit"). When cultural critics nostalgically recall an imagined past in which readers unscrolled their books continuously from beginning to end, they are reversing the long history of the codex and the printed book as indexical forms. The novel has only been a brilliantly perverse interlude in the long history of discontinuous reading.
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<item rdf:about="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147061/Contingent-Computation-Abstraction-Experience-and-Indeterminacy-in-Computational-Aesthetics">
    <title>Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics - 9781538147061</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems. It does so by advancing an original conception of computational aesthetics that does not just concern art made by or with computers, but rather the modes of being and becoming of computational processes. Contingent Computation mobilises the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead in order to address aesthetics as an ontological study of the generative potential of reality. Through a novel philosophical reading of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and of Turing’s notion of incomputability, Fazi finds this potential at the formal heart of computational systems, and argues that computation is a process of determining indeterminacy. This indeterminacy, which is central to computational systems, does not contradict their functionality. Instead, it drives their very operation, albeit in a manner that might not always fit with the instrumental, representational and cognitivist purposes that we have assigned to computing. 
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6778-hyperthematics.aspx">
    <title>Hyperthematics</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-29T00:34:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6778-hyperthematics.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this innovative work, Marc M. Anderson presents an account of value and value creation, which both defines value and introduces a method to manipulate value practically. Using this new methodology, Anderson first explores where value lies in experience, both human and otherwise, uncovering tendencies in human action and the natural world that create and destroy value. From that analysis, he generates practical principles to be applied in creating value in any region or discipline of human experience, at any scale, including corporate organization and product design, economics, the sciences, the arts, urban and architectural design, and sustainable development. He tests this methodology by focusing on the organization and production of commercial corporations in particular, suggesting ways to rethink and transform organization, product creation, and the contemporary currency system. He considers the implications for the many intersections of corporate production with human life, from urban planning, medicine, and food production to pornography, weaponry, and environmental engagement, with corresponding suggestions for transformation toward value. Throughout, Hyperthematics examines complexity, the nature of objects, the inevitable future intermingling of science and ethics, and assumptions driving the contemporary culture wars.
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<item rdf:about="https://www.math3ma.com/blog/topology-book">
    <title>Topology: A Categorical Approach</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-13T11:20:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.math3ma.com/blog/topology-book</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've been collaborating on an exciting project for quite some time now, and today I'm happy to share it with you. There is a new topology book on the market! Topology: A Categorical Approach is a graduate-level textbook that presents basic topology from the modern perspective of category theory. Coauthored with Tyler Bryson and John Terilla, Topology is published through MIT Press and will be released on August 18, 2020. But you can pre-order on Amazon now! 

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<item rdf:about="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2852-against-creativity">
    <title>Verso</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-05T10:55:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.versobooks.com/books/2852-against-creativity</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From line managers, corporate CEOs, urban designers, teachers, politicians, mayors, advertisers and even our friends and family, the message is “be creative’. Creativity is heralded as the driving force of our contemporary society, celebrated as agile, progressive and liberating. It is the spring of the knowledge economy and shapes the cities we inhabit. It even defines our politics. What could possibly be wrong with this?

In this brilliant, counter-intuitive blast, Oli Mould demands that we rethink the story we are being sold. Behind the novelty, he shows that creativity is a barely hidden form of neoliberal appropriation. It is a regime that prioritises individual success over collective flourishing. It refuses to recognise anything—job, place, person—that is not profitable. And it impacts on everything around us: the places where we work, the way we are managed, how we spend our leisure time.

Is there an alternative? Mould offers a radical redefinition of creativity, one embedded in the idea of collective flourishing, outside the tyranny of profit. Bold, passionate and refreshing, Against Creativity, is a timely correction to the doctrine of our times.
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<item rdf:about="https://communemag.com/cybergothic-acid-communism-now/">
    <title>Cybergothic Acid Communism Now | Sarah Jaffe</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-07T11:17:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://communemag.com/cybergothic-acid-communism-now/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Capitalist Realism exists as a tight little bomb of a book that no one really has any excuse not to read. But in case anyone hasn’t, the concept threads through the k-punk collection; the idea that we live under the shadow of “there is no alternative,” unable to imagine a better way to organize society, let alone to struggle for one. Such “realism,” Fisher explained, was deeply unreal, particularly as we all live in the shadow of climate catastrophe; the tsk-tsking of the centrist ruling class is death drive posing as maturity, and the power of capitalist realism an expression of class decomposition, the fading of class consciousness. Peering through this gloom, Fisher nonetheless glimpsed some endings. After 2008, he wrote, “Neoliberalism is finished as a project, even if it lurches on, thrashing around like a decorticated terminator.”

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<item rdf:about="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/book-parts-9780198812463?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#">
    <title>Book Parts - Dennis Duncan; Adam Smyth - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T14:33:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/book-parts-9780198812463?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of other texts--page numbers and running heads, copyright statements and errata lists--each possessed of particular conventions, each with their own lively histories. To consider these paratexts--recalling them from the margins, letting them take centre stage--is to be reminded that no book is the sole work of the author whose name appears on the cover; rather, every book is the sum of a series of collaborations. It is to be reminded, also, that not everything is intended for us, the readers. There are sections that are solely directed at others--binders, librarians, lawyers--parts of the book that, if they are working well, are working discreetly, like a theatrical prompt, whispering out of the audience's ear-shot

Book Parts is a bold and imaginative intervention in the fast growing field of book history: it pulls the book apart. Over twenty-two chapters, Book Parts tells the story of the components of the book: from title pages to endleaves; from dust jackets to indexes--and just about everything in between. Book Parts covers a broad historical range that runs from the pre-print era to the digital, bringing together the expertise of some of the most exciting scholars working on book history today in order to shine a new light on these elements hiding in plain sight in the books we all read.

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<dc:subject>books forthcoming to-read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://andymatuschak.org/books/">
    <title>Why books don’t work | Andy Matuschak</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-17T10:18:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://andymatuschak.org/books/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My collaborator Michael Nielsen and I made an initial attempt with Quantum Country, a “book” on quantum computation. But reading this “book” doesn’t look like reading any other book. The explanatory text is tightly woven with brief interactive review sessions, meant to exploit the ideas we just introduced. Reading Quantum Country means reading a few minutes of text, then quickly testing your memory about everything you’ve just read, then reading for a few more minutes, or perhaps scrolling back to reread certain details, and so on. Reading Quantum Country also means repeating those quick memory tests in expanding intervals over the following days, weeks, and months. If you read the first chapter, then engage with the memory tests in your inbox over the following days, we expect your working memory will be substantially less taxed when reading the second chapter. What’s more, the interleaved review sessions lighten the metacognitive burden normally foisted onto the reader: they help readers see where they’re absorbing the material and where they’re not.

Quantum Country is just one piece of the memory puzzle, which itself is part a larger tapestry. How might we design mediums in which “readers” naturally form rich associations between the ideas being presented? How might we design mediums which “readers” naturally engage creatively with the material? How might we design mediums in which “readers” naturally contend with competing interpretations? If we pile together enough of these questions we’re left with: how might we design mediums in which “reading” is the same as “understanding”? A more detailed treatment of such a research program is beyond the scope of these brief notes, but I believe that the answers to questions like these can transform the pace of human knowledge, echoing the transformation which books themselves sparked so long ago.

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    <title>The Hathlor Classification System – The Math Citadel</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-13T11:01:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.themathcitadel.com/2018/09/07/the-hathlor-classification-system/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why Reinvent the Wheel?
As mentioned before, we felt that the current systems in use both omit useful information regarding the content of the works and add extra information a user doesn’t typically care about, such as the LCC’s cutter number. In addition, a researcher or browser may simply have a general idea of the types of things he would like a text to contain, but neither the DDC nor the LCC provides a simple way to search for such things. Ours provides a way to search via a simple regular expression query, returning a set of texts previously unknown to the user that fit the subjects, topics, and subtopics he seeks, particularly books that contain all he seeks. 

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<dc:subject>classification ontology books libraries rather-interesting feature-selection</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://popula.com/2019/03/12/on-owning-many-books/">
    <title>On Owning Many Books – Popula</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-27T12:16:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://popula.com/2019/03/12/on-owning-many-books/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No one hoards books like Amazon, owned by the world’s wealthiest human and named after the planet’s greatest (and fastest-declining) carbon dioxide sink; Amazon, a company with one of the worst track records of addressing our climate crisis, began as an online bookseller, something no one knows better than a book hoarder like me.

As parts of the world with greater private capital lay claim to more and more of our public resources–deepening racial and economic segregation, just as at my high school–Amazon exemplifies these shifts, from public to private. Book-hoarding is less cute if you think of it as book-privatizing. But my reading is governed by my personal library, not the public one a few stops away on the Metropolitan Transit Authority; my books reflect less the extent of my reading and erudition than they do a grand shift in resources from the public to the private. And my personal library’s explosion has so much to do with Amazon, like the trouble I have whenever it’s time to move from one house to another. Reading books helped me move through high school hallways, to New York, to Harlem, and owning them now inhibits me and weighs me down. I buy with a single click, and my knee clicks as I haul yet another bin of books up flights of stairs.

I remember the thrilling convenience of buying a book online for the first time, and the sudden insatiable 2AM desire to have The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes or Hiram’s Red Shirt. Because I can! That feeling is separate from the responsibility of owning that book, separate from the act, spread out over hours, days, and weeks, of reading the book, separate even from the feeling of being possessed by one. I know this. And yet the moment when the mouse hovers over the purchase button contains the promise of transformation, a hope that obliterates the knowledge there is no more space on the shelves. It’s a feeling far less tidy, and far less personal, than joy.

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    <title>Quinn Slobodian – Globalists — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-12T13:09:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2018/05/03/quinn-slobodian-globalists/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Slobodian thinks that this is mistaken. In his account, markets have not become disembedded from national societies and states so much as they have become re-embedded in international institutions. Neo-liberalism as manifested in the thought of Hayek and his European followers is the political project of looking to recreate state structures outside the grasp of democratic and non-democratic states. Far from thinking that markets are natural, neo-liberals accept that they are “products of the political construction of institutions to encase them.” (p.7) Instead of a double movement, we have a ‘double world’ of imperium, political rule exercised through nation states, and dominium, the world of economics and business, and a deliberate political effort to insulate the latter inside its own steel-hard casing against the depredations of the former. Neo-liberals then, look to an `interdependent’ world and a single global economy as a realm that should be held inviolate from national states, and the demands their people put upon them. This, as they came to realize over time, requires them to build their own quasi-constitutional structures at the international level, in order to fend off the persistent efforts of national states to shape and control competitive forces and economic flows that are better left alone.

Under this account, the most crucial dynamics of neo-liberalism did not involve the glamorous public clash of ideas between intellectuals. Instead, they were duller, more relentless and in the end, more effective – the persistent efforts of neo-liberals to argue through new kinds of international institution and to push back against organized efforts to make global markets more accountable to national authorities. Mont Pelerin was important – but so too were the International Chamber of Commerce and a multitude of boring seeming meetings and negotiations.

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<item rdf:about="https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/">
    <title>DRM-free Bookshops</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-04T10:40:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A regularly updated list of online shops that sell e-books without DRM.]]></description>
<dc:subject>books shopping DRM copyright rather-interesting publishing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2018/02/digitising-books-as-objects-the-invisible-made-visible.html">
    <title>Digitising books as objects: The invisible made visible - Collection Care blog</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-31T12:49:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2018/02/digitising-books-as-objects-the-invisible-made-visible.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lights for digitisation are carefully positioned to avoid shadows and they help to reduce surface irregularities and anomalies. This is all to the benefit of the written text and/or of the decorations, but with much loss for the lovers of the book as an object!

Here I want to describe some very practical ways to achieve different results and show some ‘behind the scenes’ of items I have been working on and how these very interesting results can be achieved with simple straight-forward techniques that do not require any high-tech equipment.

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    <title>Browse Princeton Catalog in Popular Math | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-21T23:03:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/math/subjects/mgen.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Browse Princeton's Math Subject Area (by Title) in Popular Math]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-acquisition-of-old-book-is-its.html">
    <title>Laudator Temporis Acti: The Acquisition of an Old Book is its Rebirth</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-25T11:59:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-acquisition-of-old-book-is-its.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Habent sua fata libelli. These words may have been intended as a general statement about books. So books like The Divine Comedy, Spinoza's Ethics, and The Origin of Species have their fates. A collector, however, interprets this Latin saying differently. For him, not only books but also copies of books have their fates. And in this sense, the most important fate of a copy is its encounter with him, with his own collection. I am not exaggerating when I say that to a true collector the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth.
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<item rdf:about="http://ryancordell.org/research/objectivity-1/">
    <title>Objectivity and Distant Reading · Ryan Cordell</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-15T12:02:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ryancordell.org/research/objectivity-1/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was drawn to read Objectivity as part of my growing interest, following the work of scholars such as Lauren Klein or Jacqueline Wernimont, in pre-histories of computing: around ideas of information, data, programming, quantification, or visualization. I am drawn to such work because I believe deep historicization can help build a more robust and integrative digital humanities. In such a DH computation—and in this post that word is, admittedly, doing too much work, but—in such a DH computation would not be simply a powerful modern tool applied to the past or, equally simply, an impoverished neoliberal framework incommensurate with the nuances of the past. Instead, computation would be both subject and methodology, both of history and capable of dialogue with history. More robust historical contextualization can, I believe, assist on all sides of the DH debates, mitigating both the millennial and apocalyptic rhetoric swirling around the field.
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<item rdf:about="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/true-enough">
    <title>True Enough | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-14T11:59:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/true-enough</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this stance account for the epistemic standing of science, which unabashedly relies on models, idealizations, and thought experiments that are known not to be true? In True Enough, Catherine Elgin argues that we should not assume that the inaccuracy of models and idealizations constitutes an inadequacy. To the contrary, their divergence from truth or representational accuracy fosters their epistemic functioning. When effective, models and idealizations are, Elgin contends, felicitous falsehoods that exemplify features of the phenomena they bear on. Because works of art deploy the same sorts of felicitous falsehoods, she argues, they also advance understanding.

Elgin develops a holistic epistemology that focuses on the understanding of broad ranges of phenomena rather than knowledge of individual facts. Epistemic acceptability, she maintains, is a matter not of truth-conduciveness, but of what would be reflectively endorsed by the members of an idealized epistemic community—a quasi-Kantian realm of epistemic ends.

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<dc:subject>via:? books philosophy-of-science truth epistemology philosophy to-read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://designobserver.com/feature/empathy-in-book-publishing/39603">
    <title>Empathy in Book Publishing: Design Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-22T12:44:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://designobserver.com/feature/empathy-in-book-publishing/39603</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, the best book designers tend to be avid readers, which could be framed as an introspective form of customer empathy. But human-centered design is about immersing in your customer’s experience—your reader’s experience. That’s different than your experience of reading. Only being an avid reader falls short of customer immersion. A book designer’s work primarily focuses on the author, editor, and book—the reader typically receives tangential attention. What would happen if book designers went further and immersed in their readers’ lives? I decided to find out.

One of my imprints publishes books by thought leaders in literacy instruction. Our readers are teachers who teach students how to love reading books (yes, very meta). So, I began volunteering in the same 4th grade classroom for one full day each month. I didn't conduct interviews, collect data, or keep a journal. I simply made an effort to be present with a mind towards spotting the teacher’s "peas." Tiny things, like how the gnawing sound of an electric pencil sharpener distracts students. And how the ubiquitous spiral binding on a grading book turns the ruler that tracks a student’s row across the spread into an irritating seesaw. Immersing in the teacher’s experience also brought me face-to-face with my customer’s customer—children. During one independent reading session, I noticed a girl who had cast her book aside with a frown. I asked why. She said it lacked drama. I began dramatically presenting alternate titles. She frowned harder. The period ended. I was struck by a very plain fact: you can’t force someone to read. 

My classroom experiences didn't uncover any 80 million dollar ideas, although if I ever have the opportunity to design a teacher’s grading book, I will lobby for lay-flat binding—or, better yet, an app. Looking at the world through my customer’s eyes did, however, change the way I view my job. Back in the office discussions about “the customer” were no longer abstract. I now felt a responsibility to advocate for the teachers and students I had met. The act of immersing in my customer’s experience suddenly felt as fundamental to my charge as the act of kerning. 

You don't need the letters U and X in your job title to adopt a customer-needs perspective. All designers, no matter their level, should count fostering customer empathy in themselves and others as a baseline job requirement—doubly so if you work in book publishing where human-centered design is seldom discussed. Invest energy into spotting your readers’ peas. Internalize their perspective. Champion their needs. I can’t promise it will make you rich, but it will imbue your work with a greater sense of service and purpose.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/07/15/printed-books-entered-new-chapter-fortune/">
    <title>How printed books entered a new chapter of fortune</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-21T13:01:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/07/15/printed-books-entered-new-chapter-fortune/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In February, Waterstones returned to profit for the first time in seven years, citing a return to “traditional bookselling” as the key to its resurgence. WH Smith has also found joy in books, regularly highlighting the success of spoof humour titles, such as Enid Blyton parody Five on Brexit Island, as a key sales driver.

“The print book revival continues as consumers, young and old, appear to have established a new appreciation for this traditional format,” said Rebecca McGrath, Mintel’s senior media analyst.]]></description>
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    <title>[1604.01760] Solving Diophantine Equations</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-24T00:55:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.jsp?r=1604.01760&amp;qid=1490097869827ler_nCnN_397128995&amp;qs=%22recreational+math%22+OR+%22recreational+mathematics%22+OR+%22mathematical+recreations%22&amp;byDate=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this book a multitude of Diophantine equations and their partial or complete solutions are presented. How should we solve, for example, the equation {\eta}({\pi}(x)) = {\pi}({\eta}(x)), where {\eta} is the Smarandache function and {\pi} is Riemann function of counting the number of primes up to x, in the set of natural numbers? If an analytical method is not available, an idea would be to recall the empirical search for solutions. We establish a domain of searching for the solutions and then we check all possible situations, and of course we retain among them only those solutions that verify our equation. In other words, we say that the equation does not have solutions in the search domain, or the equation has n solutions in this domain. This mode of solving is called partial resolution. Partially solving a Diophantine equation may be a good start for a complete solving of the problem. The authors have identified 62 Diophantine equations that impose such approach and they partially solved them. For an efficient resolution it was necessarily that they have constructed many useful tools for partially solving the Diophantine equations into a reasonable time. The computer programs as tools were written in Mathcad, because this is a good mathematical software where many mathematical functions are implemented. Transposing the programs into another computer language is facile, and such algorithms can be turned to account on other calculation systems with various processors.
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04780">
    <title>[1502.04780] Computational Curiosity (A Book Draft)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-27T16:36:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04780</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This book discusses computational curiosity, from the psychology of curiosity to the computational models of curiosity, and then showcases several interesting applications of computational curiosity. A brief overview of the book is given as follows. Chapter 1 discusses the underpinnings of curiosity in human beings, including the major categories of curiosity, curiosity-related emotions and behaviors, and the benefits of curiosity. Chapter 2 reviews the arousal theories of curiosity in psychology and summarizes a general two-step process model for computational curiosity. Base on the perspective of the two-step process model, Chapter 3 reviews and analyzes some of the traditional computational models of curiosity. Chapter 4 introduces a novel generic computational model of curiosity, which is developed based on the arousal theories of curiosity. After the discussion of computational models of curiosity, we outline the important applications where computational curiosity may bring significant impacts in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 discusses the application of the generic computational model of curiosity in a machine learning framework. Chapter 7 discusses the application of the generic computational model of curiosity in a recommender system. In Chapter 8 and Chapter 9, the generic computational model of curiosity is studied in two types of pedagogical agents. In Chapter 8, a curious peer learner is studied. It is a non-player character that aims to provide a believable virtual learning environment for users. In Chapter 9, a curious learning companion is studied. It aims to enhance users' learning experience through providing meaningful interactions with them. Chapter 10 discusses open questions in the research field of computation curiosity.
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/message/lets-talk-about-margins-14646574c385">
    <title>Let’s talk about margins — The Message — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-07T11:52:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/message/lets-talk-about-margins-14646574c385</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Text printed on the best paper with no margins or unbalanced margins is vile. Or, if we’re being empathetic, sad. (For no book begins life aspiring to bad margins.) I know that sounds harsh. But a book with poorly set margins is as useful as a hammer with a one inch handle. Sure, you can pound nails, but it ain’t fun. A book with crass margins will never make a reader comfortable. Such a book feels cramped, claustrophobic. It doesn’t draw you in, certainly doesn’t make you want to spend time with the text.

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<item rdf:about="http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/the-global-empire/">
    <title>The Global Empire | Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-10T11:04:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/the-global-empire/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In a sense, agency and structure are merged in Chomsky’s analysis: the agents he observes are embedded within institutions, and therefore make decisions in accordance with institutional imperatives. The rationale behind their decisions is institutional, not individual, rationality. Likewise, the actions of individuals in this regard are manifestations of institutional behavior. Ultimately, this leads Chomsky to portray institutions as the ontological basis of social order, or at least to leave questions of more foundational organizational principles unexplored. This failure to account for such socio-historical foundations leads him to adopt a reified understanding of institutions. As he writes, “the basic framework of policy formation tends to remain in place as long as the institutions of power and domination are stable, with the capacity to deflect challenges and accommodate or displace competing forces… Nevertheless, policies have to be adapted to changing contingencies.” This is clearly a kind of theoretical shortcut: it assumes that the institutions from which policy flows are “stable.” While Chomsky sees a consistent institutional rationality that is merely “adapted to circumstances,” such “adaptation” cannot be understood as merely a particular application of a timeless abstract form, deviating by a matter of degree from an imagined stable equilibrium. In fact, when institutions “adapt” this logic, they also transform themselves, since they do not exist outside of their concrete, practical articulation. Chomsky is therefore unable to comprehend institutional change, which is the primary determinant of whether or not the state posses the capacity to carry out its chosen projects, whatever the rationale behind these may be.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-philosophy history scholarship-and-schooling books organizational-behavior</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://nplusonemag.com/slave-capitalism">
    <title>n+1: Slave Capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-01T22:01:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nplusonemag.com/slave-capitalism</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Johnson rereads this violence as the cutting edge of modern technique. First came the surveyors, to parcel out the forests and swamps so the Land Office could put them up for auction. “The work of the Land Office,” Johnson writes, “was to make the concrete landscape abstract: to turn this salt lick into a salt lick; to turn a trail blazed through the woods into field notes in a field book; to turn the surveyors’ recorded experience into maps to be sent to Washington; to turn those maps into an ‘offering,’ which could be represented in the space of several printed pages, and then circulated to potential buyers, wherever they were.” 

Parceling out the conquered territory produced commensurable, gridded symbol-units of land: commodities where there had been none. Johnson calls this process “simplification.” Concrete ecological consequences followed, as the forest was stripped, the underbrush burned, the meadows fenced, and herds of cows, sheep, and pigs set loose on what remained. Without a thick coat of vegetation, the soil had nothing to hold it together. Erosion sped up, and flooding increased. Masters threw up levees, squeezing increasingly aggravated floods further downriver. Above all, planters—or rather, slaves—worked the denuded dirt into row upon row of cotton, fitting a whole tract of the continent into one uniform. “From the air,” Johnson writes, “the face of the landscape would have presented a visual image of the whole of nature arrayed in the service of a single plant.”

]]></description>
<dc:subject>history economics slavery abstraction books to-read the-dark-image-in-the-mirror via:??</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://collation.folger.edu/2013/06/noticing-the-weirdness-of-texts/">
    <title>Noticing the weirdness of texts | The Collation</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-11T22:45:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://collation.folger.edu/2013/06/noticing-the-weirdness-of-texts/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it’s fun just to look at books without worrying what they are and who printed them and what the text says. And sometimes, when you do that, you notice all sorts of ways in which they’re weird—they mix manuscript and print together, they play with layout and movement, they come in different shapes and sizes, we find them in unexpected places. And so I give you a slideshow of early modern works that might destabilize assumptions about what early books were. If you click on the first of the images below, it will switch into a slideshow view that will let you see the pictures and read some brief captions that might spark some thoughts. To find out more about the works I’ve shown, you can pull up the images in our Digital Image Collection, which will let you explore them in close detail and to view their catalog records.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>digitization books nanohistory user-experience library cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/the-art-of-browsing.html">
    <title>The Art of Browsing: New Shows Focus on Books : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-13T20:26:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/the-art-of-browsing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Turkish artist Meriç Algün Ringborg, who is now based in Sweden, temporarily appropriated hundreds of books from the Center for Fiction’s library and relocated them to Art in General’s main gallery. These books share one thing in common: they have never been checked out. There are no due dates stamped on the inside covers. Most of the books were published during the golden age of book design, between the forties and seventies, suggesting that their selection was aesthetically motivated. This makes for fun browsing. I have never heard of Judson Jerome or his book “The Fell of Dark,” but the cover is bewitchingly gorgeous: a watercolor of an orange sun tumbling into umber waves, on the verge of being overwhelmed by a swelling dark mass. While I browsed I found myself searching for flaws in the books that might have made them undesirable to library patrons—too many autobiographies thinly disguised as fiction?—but the little-known authors were mixed in with masters: books by Theodore Dreiser, Denis Johnson, Charles Dickens, and Franz Kafka are included in the show.]]></description>
<dc:subject>arts browsing user-experience the-penumbra-of-intent books</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/ppuz.html">
    <title>Princeton University Press Books in Princeton Puzzlers</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T13:56:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/ppuz.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[mathematical recreations books from Princeton University Press. I'd seen some, but never realized they were a series.]]></description>
<dc:subject>mathematical-recreations books publishing series</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/10/jf-ptak-science-books.html">
    <title>Ptak Science Books: Sequential Illustration and the Seven Stage Rule of Human Decay</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-15T13:12:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/10/jf-ptak-science-books.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The long list from birth to death of supposed and impending accomplishments is interesting particularly for the "decaying" part (which is outlined in the second chart) of life, where we find that at age 54 a person should be conducting their mathematical works, after which (from 55 to 60) one is relegated to pursuing "former works".  (After all, the period of general decay according to the Rules of Seven chart begins at age 6x7.) And it is here that the creative life ends, because from this point to the preparation for eternity the life is spent enjoying one's earthly works."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books nanohistory cultural-norms anthropology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/electrolibrary-by-waldek-wegrzyn-paper-book-as-interface/">
    <title>Electrolibrary by Waldek Węgrzyn - Paper book as interface</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T12:35:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/electrolibrary-by-waldek-wegrzyn-paper-book-as-interface/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Created by Waldek Węgrzyn at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, “Electrolibrary” is a project that connects a custom made paper book to the computer, so it can be used as an an interface. The book can be browsed as any other regular book but when connected to the computer via USB, by turning pages, you can navigate through the website, getting additional information, quotations, movies and animations appropriate to the currently open page.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books frickin-awesome engineering-design</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/21/china-mieville-the-future-of-the-novel">
    <title>China Miéville: the future of the novel | Books | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-22T19:00:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/21/china-mieville-the-future-of-the-novel</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[Y]ou will all be able to buy them," Durrell says of those novel-writing kits, addressing not the other writers, who didn't need them, but the public, "and write your own."

That's a telling elision - he starts by kvetching about writing by machine, by no one, and segues instantly to doing so about writing by the public, by everyone. That's apocalypse. That, apparently, is a nightmare future.

The worst anxiety is not that the interfering public will ruin your work if they muck about with it, or that they'll write a terrible novel, but that they'll improve it, or write a great one. And once in a rare while, some of them will. How wonderful that will be.

You don't have to think that writing is lever-pulling, that anyone could have written Jane Eyre or Notebook of a Return to my Native Land to think that the model of writers as the Elect is at best wrong, at worst, a bit slanderous to everyone else. We piss and moan about the terrible quality of self-published books, as if slews of god-awful crap weren't professionally expensively published every year.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>books literature China-Miéville publishing disintermediation-in-action keynote</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.booktryst.com/2012/07/american-rare-book-trade-ads-from-1902.html">
    <title>BOOKTRYST: American Rare Book Trade Ads From 1902, Part III</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-27T19:54:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.booktryst.com/2012/07/american-rare-book-trade-ads-from-1902.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Part III of an absolutely fascinating nanohistory series at BookTryst, examining each of the ads in a 1900s bookman's magazine.

"On August 10, 1915  Ralph Randolph Adams filed for, and on July 10, 1923 was granted a U.S. Patent for "Radioactive Spray Material."

"The object of this invention is to provide a radio-active substance for the purpose of stimulating plant growth. A further object is to provide a radio-active substance for the prevention and destruction of insects, larvae, eggs, bacteria and fungi which are injurious to plants or animals. A further object is to provide a material having these properties which can be efficiently applied by spraying, and which will adhere to the parts of plants above ground...or to the fur, feathers or skin of animals [our emphasis] which are bothered by pests...(U.S. Patent No. 1461340).

In short, Adams invented a radioactive insect-killer to spray on the leather he used for binding as a preservative to prevent pests from harming his work. Adams "Viennese" bindings prior to 1910 do not, presumably, require use of a Geiger counter, and, having one from 1902 recently pass through my hands, I am relieved. It is unknown to this writer whether Adams' post-patent bindings glow in the dark."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books nanohistory digitization culture</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/rarebooks/archive/2012/04/21/capturing-dealer-descriptions-in-our-online-catalog.aspx">
    <title>Capturing dealer descriptions in our online catalog - Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-24T11:14:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/rarebooks/archive/2012/04/21/capturing-dealer-descriptions-in-our-online-catalog.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Attractive and rare set of decrees concerning the functioning of the judiciary in the papal city of Bologna. These city statutes were promulgated by the Pope's legate, Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani (1554-1621). Despite the issuing authority, the constitutions (a word indicating legislation of the highest level) are entirely non-religious in content, relating to civil law justice in the city. They shed considerable light into how courts worked in Bologna. Included are instructions on cases involving poor people; rules for notaries; the keeping of registers; seizures of property; taking of suspects; payment of officers; expert witnesses; and the governing of appeals. Pages 192-198 comprise papal edicts on the salaries of Bolognese judges and notaries." -- Leo Cadogan Rare Books (Dec. 2011)

]]></description>
<dc:subject>books catalog nanohistory librarians metadata</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kcaw.org/2012/01/30/new-tlingit-encyclopedia-baffling-to-scholars-speakers/">
    <title>New Tlingit encyclopedia baffling to scholars, speakers | KCAW</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-09T11:19:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kcaw.org/2012/01/30/new-tlingit-encyclopedia-baffling-to-scholars-speakers/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The massive work by New Zealand scholar Sally-Ann Lambert is extraordinarily detailed, and the product of years of effort.

The problem is: The language in the book is not recognizable by contemporary scholars, or Native Tlingit speakers."]]></description>
<dc:subject>language race racism tlingit books articles via:itrasbiel via:ignatz</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://io9.com/5872051/2011-in-review">
    <title>2011 in Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-03T12:20:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/5872051/2011-in-review</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>to-read to-keep-in-mind lists movies books comix</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.booktryst.com/2011/10/guild-of-women-binders-bound-to-be.html?">
    <title>BOOKTRYST: The Guild of Women Binders, Bound To Be Great</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-25T12:36:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.booktryst.com/2011/10/guild-of-women-binders-bound-to-be.html?</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["…Matching blue morocco doublures are tooled with an attractively complex central ornament encompassing considerable stippling and twenty large stylized flowers on curvilinear stems. Vellum free endleaves are ornamented with gilt hearts at the corners, and the top edge is gilt."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books bookbinding decorative-art nanohistory</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://exilebibliophile.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-owning-them-loving-them.html">
    <title>The Exile Bibliophile: Books: Owning them, Loving them</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-29T13:13:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://exilebibliophile.blogspot.com/2010/10/books-owning-them-loving-them.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So, I recently discovered Stacked Up: Writers Show off their Shelves, which is exactly what it sounds like. Short interviews with writers and some of their books. Just wonderful, though a bit too NYCentric to be truly invigorating. I just don't get that worked up over THE BIG DEAL that is NYC. Give me space, keep your crowds! But, NYC is where a LOT of writers live, so I can't be too cranky about it. Hopefully the Stacked Up folks will one day be able to get off the little island and out into the real world. Anyway, go enjoy these things Book Folk-- you're not alone."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books bibliomania bookshelves another-tag-involving-the-word-books authorship writing-culture video</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature-of-computation.org/">
    <title>Nature of Computation</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-15T03:28:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature-of-computation.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Computational complexity is one of the most beautiful fields of modern mathematics, and it is increasingly relevant to other sciences ranging from physics to biology. This book gives a lucid and playful explanation of the field, starting with P and NP-completeness. The authors explain why the P vs. NP problem is so fundamental, and why it is so hard to resolve. They then lead the reader through the complexity of mazes and games; optimization in theory and practice; randomized algorithms, interactive proofs, and pseudorandomness; Markov chains and phase transitions; and the outer reaches of quantum computing. At every turn, they use a minimum of formalism, providing explanations that are both deep and accessible. The book is intended for graduates and undergraduates, scientists from other areas who have long wanted to understand this subject, and experts who want to fall in love with this field all over again."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product.php/90/0/-why-do-we-quote--the-culture-and-history-of-quotation">
    <title>Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation - Open Book Publishers</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-20T12:36:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product.php/90/0/-why-do-we-quote--the-culture-and-history-of-quotation</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is a rich and engaging work of outstanding scholarship. Scholars in sociolinguistics, literature, and folklore will recognize the importance of the book for their fields. General readers will find it just plain interesting"]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-13/the-myth-of-innate-genius-david-shenks-new-book-the-genius-in-all-of-us/2/">
    <title>The Myth of Innate Genius: David Shenk's New Book, The Genius in All Of Us - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-14T13:20:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-13/the-myth-of-innate-genius-david-shenks-new-book-the-genius-in-all-of-us/2/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We were all taught to believe in the paradigm of innate intelligence and gene-given talent, "gifts, and no one is going to be convinced otherwise by a few micro-biographical fragments. I go into much greater depth about gene expression and the nuances of the new developmental model of talent (Hint: It doesn't mean we all control our own destiny, or that it all comes down to hard work). Over time, we'll learn to think past the black and white notion of nature vs. nurture. And the world will be a richer place for it.
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<dc:subject>books cultural-assumptions genius nature-and-nurture-sittin-in-a-tree</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://digitalbookworld.com/2010/closing-the-gap-between-publishers-and-readers/#axzz0lxhruH6T">
    <title>Closing the Gap Between Publishers and Readers | Digital Book World</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-25T21:36:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://digitalbookworld.com/2010/closing-the-gap-between-publishers-and-readers/#axzz0lxhruH6T</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Maybe depressed isn’t quite the right word. “Cognizant of absurdity” captures it better (I’m sure the Germans have a good word for this). What I’m seeing on the Javitz Center floor plan is an effort by publishers to remove themselves once and for all from the people they perceive to be their customers–librarians and booksellers. And the people who actually buy the products…you know, actual readers? Of course, they continue to be completely shut out. Not invited to the party."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>publishing disintermediation-in-action books reading trade-shows business-model-failure</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ironicsans.com/2010/02/they_dont_make_computer_manual.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ironicsans%2Ffeed+(Ironic+Sans)&amp;utm_content=Bloglines">
    <title>Ironic Sans: They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-04T20:07:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ironicsans.com/2010/02/they_dont_make_computer_manual.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ironicsans%2Ffeed+(Ironic+Sans)&amp;utm_content=Bloglines</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For example, the manual for the Franklin Ace 100 begins with about 40 pages of computer basics (What are they? What can they do? etc). And then, on page 40, two thirds of the way down the page, there is a chapter heading called “The Ancestral Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan.” Here’s how the chapter begins:…"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>computer-science nanohistory books cultural-assumptions models-and-modes</dc:subject>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:books"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/pictureit-rare-book-reader">
    <title>PictureIt Rare Book Reader | MLibrary</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-11T13:01:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lib.umich.edu/news/pictureit-rare-book-reader</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["PictureIt is a web-based animation program that gives users the sensation of turning the pages of digitized rare materials that would be otherwise difficult, if not impossible, to view or obtain. Volume 1 of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was selected as the inaugural PictureIt book for a few reasons. Foremost, the eight volume set has special meaning as the first purchase for the Library by the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan. As well, the University of Pittsburgh had already digitized all volumes of the Birds of America set and was willing to share the images with the Library. And finally, the illustrated plates of this set were intricately completed, making them as much art work as scientific work. Volume 1 of Audubon’s Birds of America was also selected for the first PictureIt book because its complex images demonstrate the product’s embedded magnification tool which allows users to get up-close and view the details of each illustration."
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<dc:subject>digitization books FLASH-:( user-interaction user-interface via:rosefirerising</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://halfbakedmaker.org/2009/12/01/book-scanning/">
    <title>Book Scanning « The Half-Baked Maker</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-09T16:14:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://halfbakedmaker.org/2009/12/01/book-scanning/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I personally scan the books I bought because I’m tired of thousands of them cluttering up my house, ending up lost at the bottom of a box marked Dishes, getting eaten by bugs, or attacked by acid inherent in the paper. If you don’t like the idea of reading electronic editions of books, stop reading here! Also, if you think format-shifting is intellectual property theft, stop reading here. There are as many reasons people have for scanning books as there are people:…"
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<dc:subject>DIY book-scanning digitization books makers social-network-failed-us-here-until-now</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://pastispresent.org/2009/good-sources/the-acquisitions-table/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed">
    <title>The Acquisitions Table « PastIsPresent.org</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-15T13:42:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pastispresent.org/2009/good-sources/the-acquisitions-table/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although much comes in, there is still plenty for us to seek out and acquire.  We are omnivorous in our appetite for material printed in the United States before 1877—if we don’t already have it, we want it, and even if we do have it, we might want another copy if it is slightly different or in better condition than the one we have.  We also add secondary materials to the collections to support research here."
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<dc:subject>acquisitions antiquarian books nanohistory bibliophilia</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/acs-oo120209.php">
    <title>'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-02T23:59:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/acs-oo120209.php</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its smell. In a report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe development of a new test that can measure the degradation of old books and precious historical documents based on their smell. The nondestructive "sniff" test could help libraries and museums preserve a range of prized paper-based objects, some of which are degrading rapidly due to advancing age, the scientists say."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>degradomics analytical-chemistry books preservation bibliophilia conservation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:74cae0d444b1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://vimeo.com/5228616">
    <title>Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion on Vimeo</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-12T20:33:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://vimeo.com/5228616</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the discovery of the 1898 International Dictionary to linotyping the entries to printing the last print on the vandercook to cutting the fingertabs of the deluxe edition, this video gives a quick overview of the process of creating the Pictorial Webster's fine press edition."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bookbinding books bookmaking book-art printing letterpress wood-engraving art decorative-art</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:795040411e7d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html">
    <title>myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-03T00:01:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Your third point, about the founders' vision of America, is something that has been a matter of keen interest to me most of my adult life. In fact, I even wrote a book about it, where I went back and read the founders' early writings about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What a fascinating time to be alive! What astonishing minds! Here's what I learned: our whole system of government was based on the idea that the purpose of the state was to preserve individual liberties, not to dictate them. The founders uniformly despised many practices in England that compromised matters of individual conscience by restricting freedom of speech. Freedom of speech – the right to talk, write, publish, discuss – was so important to the founders that it was the first amendment to the Constitution – and without it, the Constitution never would have been ratified."
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<dc:subject>rights censorship libraries culture-war community writing books reading freedom</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://magazine.jhu.edu/2009/08/the-autodidact-course-catalog/">
    <title>Johns Hopkins Magazine – The Autodidact Course Catalog</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-07T16:37:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://magazine.jhu.edu/2009/08/the-autodidact-course-catalog/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One would be hard-pressed to disapprove of autodidacticism. Consider a list of notable alumni from the academy of the self-taught: René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, William Blake. Michael Faraday apprenticed himself to a bookseller and read everything he could before going on to figure out electromagnetism. August Wilson schooled himself at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh after dropping out of the ninth grade. Arnold Schoenberg claimed to be an autodidact, and who are we to dispute it? Frank Zappa advised, “Forget about the senior prom and go to the library and educate yourself, if you’ve got any guts.” Hear, hear. (Though if the prom band is playing Frank Zappa songs, we’re donning a powder-blue brocade tux and we’re going.)"
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<dc:subject>autodidact generalism continuing-education learning pedagogy independence reading books teaching to-read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/when-i-look-at-books-i-see-an-outdated-technology-like-scrolls-before-books/">
    <title>“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books…” « Lisa Gold: Research Maven</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-06T13:26:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/when-i-look-at-books-i-see-an-outdated-technology-like-scrolls-before-books/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is stupid on so many levels that I forced myself to wait a full day before blogging about it so I wouldn’t rant incoherently."
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<dc:subject>digitization idiocy libraries books microfilm-all-over-again that-Santayana-quote-you-know-the-one</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1599d4dd9f9e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2009/09/the_greatest_analyst_of_marxis.html">
    <title>The greatest analyst of Marxism who ever lived (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-05T23:04:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2009/09/the_greatest_analyst_of_marxis.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are."
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    <title>OnTheCommons.org » Varieties of Enclosure &amp; Commons Alternatives</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-25T10:47:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2462</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An important addition to the growing international dialogue about the commons can be found in the new anthology, Genes, Bytes and Emissions: To Whom Does the World Belong? (discussed in this previous blog post). Recently released in German, the essays in this book are now available online in English.

The book was edited by Silke Helfrich and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation; Helfrich is the former director of the Foundation’s Mexico City office, which hosted a major conference, Citizenship and Commons, in December 2006. The collection, whose title in English is To Whom Does the World Belong? offers a thoughtful and provocative array of viewpoints on the commons. (The links below connect to pdf files of the essays.)"
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    <title>Snarkmarket: Virginia Woolf on the Future of the Book</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-24T14:20:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/books_writing_such/virginia_woolf_on_the_future_of_the_book/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them, or give them away if we do. Moreover, it is absurd to print every book as if it were fated to last a hundred years. The life of the average book is perhaps three months. Why not face this fact? Why not print the first edition on some perishable material which would crumble to a little heap of perfectly clean dust in about six months time? If a second edition were needed, this could be printed on good paper and well bound. Thus by far the greater number of books would die a natural death in three months or so. No space would be wasted and no dirt would be collected."
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    <title>The X10 Book, first edition [LED display in spine of book] | RazorNylon</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-08T14:16:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.razornylon.com/2009/the-x10-book-first-edition.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I find myself wondering when I can have a sheet of Arduino-complexity rice-grain-sized chips fabricated. On demand.
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    <title>What is FRBR?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-21T11:15:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.loc.gov/cds/FRBR.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Based on an article originally published in Technicalities (v. 25, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2003), this pamphlet provides a brief overview of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as developed by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). Using full-color graphics, What is FRBR? outlines the background of the development of the Functional Requirements, the concepts involved and their potential impact on cataloging rules, bibliographic structures and systems design for cataloging applications."
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    <title>ruby-marc</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-19T17:29:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://marc.rubyforge.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>libraries MARC books</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-03/brooks/">
    <title>In This Issue</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-13T14:55:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-03/brooks/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Can you blame us for being a defensive lot, we lovers of early American literature, when all about us we see America's political Founding Fathers (and sometimes Mothers) celebrated like rock stars, on t-shirts, in miniseries, and, most enviably, with best-selling biographical tomes? What about our literary Founding Fathers (and Mothers)? Anne Bradstreet? Edward Taylor? Charles Brockden Brown? Don't they too deserve a little name recognition: at least a spot on CSPAN or a line-drawing portrait on a bookbag? We who cherish early American books and writers come by our defensiveness honestly. It is a long-standing American intellectual tradition, pioneered by fine American literary minds like William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, each of whom in his own way responded to that stinging question posed by Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review in January 1820: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?""
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<item rdf:about="http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-03/cahill/">
    <title>The Other Panic of 1819</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-13T14:45:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-03/cahill/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["... Moreover, in order to raise capital and extend their credit over the long, unpredictable term of [an item's] market life, they often endorsed or guaranteed each other's promissory notes, in this way creating elaborate networks of mutual dependence. As a result, when one firm became insolvent, it often took several others down with it. But to make things even worse, many [brokers of these items] estimated their net worth based on unsold (and devalued) inventory rather than on a more realistic accounting of their assets. This meant that, at any given time, it was difficult for a [broker of these items] to know either his own true financial position or that of the firms whose notes he'd endorsed. Thus, by 1819, with many thousands of worthless [items] circulating as inflated currency, the bankruptcy of a [broker of these items] was a frequent occurrence."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.siu.edu/~siupress/deweycollection.htm">
    <title>The Collected Works of John Dewey</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-14T21:42:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.siu.edu/~siupress/deweycollection.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you want to buy me a present, buy me this. The whole set.
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    <title>MediaShift . 5 Great Services for Self-Publishing Your Book | PBS</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-06T19:57:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/03/5-great-services-for-self-publishing-your-book061.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Even things that you might expect to come standard -- like an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), without which a book won't be offered for sale by many professional booksellers -- are often only available at extra cost, so authors should always read the fine print to know what they're getting into. While you're shopping around, here's a quick look at five good possibilities for POD publishing:"
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