reading wednesday
Jul. 26th, 2017 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
• What are you reading?
Chimera, by John Barth. Last read in college, when I was studying computer science, and everything Barth said about letters and stories seemed to be a direct reflection of something Turing discovered about numbers and computing machines. "The key to the treasure is the treasure."
• What did you recently finish reading?
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. I had been putting this off, because my non-SF-reading friends were saying it was really good but my SF-reading friends were finding it disappointing, which usually means I'll find it disappointing. Turns out it's really good!
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson, for Tawanda book group.
Chimera, by John Barth. Last read in college, when I was studying computer science, and everything Barth said about letters and stories seemed to be a direct reflection of something Turing discovered about numbers and computing machines. "The key to the treasure is the treasure."
• What did you recently finish reading?
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. I had been putting this off, because my non-SF-reading friends were saying it was really good but my SF-reading friends were finding it disappointing, which usually means I'll find it disappointing. Turns out it's really good!
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson, for Tawanda book group.
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Date: 2017-07-27 07:20 pm (UTC)I may have been seeing more there than there is, due to reading these at the same time and also suffering from untreated sleep apnea, but that seemed to me to express the insight that every computing machine can be completely specified by a number -- and so, in a profound and useful way, programs and data are the same stuff!
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Date: 2017-07-27 07:41 pm (UTC)