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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 14:06:46 2020 No.12000924 View Reply Original Report

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What popsci books in your field would you recommend to a layman or autodidact?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:27:15 No.12000989 Report

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A good starting point

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:43:50 No.12001029 Report

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>>12000989
eww

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:45:03 No.12001034 Report

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>>12001029
What's your alternative?

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:54:52 No.12001052 Report

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>>12001034
I'm joking, sorry. Just not into coding.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:56:45 No.12001054 Report

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>>12001052
It's mostly hardware/theory

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 18:21:49 No.12001576 Report

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>>12000924
The 10000 year explosion
The Vital Question, Nick Lane
At our Wits end, Dutton

Honestly i don't think the selfish gene is that good

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:33:53 No.12001757 Report

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:00:15 No.12002172 Report

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>>12001576
I'd say it's a lot better than the 10.000y Explosion, which I found elementary and lacking in new ideas. I've also read a couple of papers by Sober & Wilson from which I found the multilevel selection model to be more convincing than Dawkins' reductionist model (for at least some species).

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:23:04 No.12002236 Report

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The Road to Reality - Penrose
Addresses cosmology, relativity and QM at a level that anybody familiar with high school math can follow.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:31:02 No.12002256 Report

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>>12000924
Ahahah, I wish there was one. Maybe I wouldn't feel like I'm constantly swimming in a stormy ocean of theory. Solid state physics is pain.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:47:32 No.12002441 Report

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You should try reading "thinking fast and slow" by D. Kahneman. It's a pretty relevant book on the psychology of judgement and decision making.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 00:56:29 No.12002615 Report

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>>12000924
>>>/reddit/ is that way faggot

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:50:25 No.12002759 Report

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Does this count?

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 01:57:42 No.12002772 Report

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>>12002236
>you never read it have you

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:40:31 No.12003506 Report

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>>12001757

pretty sure Edward Thorp was the first quant

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:54:24 No.12003529 Report

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>>12002615
fuck off, pre faggot era (muh atheism) dawkins is legit good popsci

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:57:24 No.12003533 Report

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>>12002615
selfish gene and the blind watchmaker are god tier pop sci books

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 07:59:07 No.12003536 Report

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>>12002759
Do I count? I think that it does. Why did we ever listen to bjork?

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:00:39 No.12003538 Report

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The Denial of Death
Our mathematical universe
Outer limits of reason
These are some interesting thought provoking texts.
Plenty more cant be assed typing them.l

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:03:20 No.12003542 Report

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>>12003538
There you are. You have been as elusive as I and I am no longer here. Wherever have been, my friend?

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:06:18 No.12003545 Report

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>>12003542
Everywhere and nowhere.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:09:42 No.12003557 Report

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:12:06 No.12003559 Report

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>>12003533
River out of eden too

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:17:32 No.12003568 Report

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>>12003545
I know, right? It is probably for the best......, I am reading the tooker book. I know that you are his senpai. It isn't half bad.. a bunch of crazy shit. Better than not.... how have you been, my fen? I don come around much, anymore.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:27:13 No.12003579 Report

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People pretending that one in a million is one in a thousand itt. (There is no punctuation for this)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ESAygQefIPU

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:33:00 No.12003590 Report

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>>12003545
Why do you fear recognition from those who do not recognize? I have no ideas.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 08:47:12 No.12003625 Report

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>>12003545
To my bfff... with a triple "F." You know that that means forevermore, right.???? I can handle it....... o forgotten what i say.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:01:50 No.12003656 Report

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Is this how it is to be? Among the aristocracy L

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:14:56 No.12003678 Report

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>>12003568
Sorry, I cannot see from right eye and you all fail.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:22:47 No.12003683 Report

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>>12003678
I look at all he onelr people.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:26:54 No.12003688 Report

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>>12003683
Fuck his...>>12003568
And to what of my lefet eyeyed friend friieng friend? Don't matter!!!

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:33:32 No.12003699 Report

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>>12003688
Fuck what?? And i am see withe the right. Away from the bow and the smash in the face.....

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 09:35:14 No.12003702 Report

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>>12003688
I cannot be as thee. Teach be as thee for thee and the myeyyle... who carwse of thessws??

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:37:53 No.12003804 Report

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>>12000924
The Selfish Gene is really great. Its not a social science essay, but Dawkin's fantastic work on Darwinism. People only look down on it because they're seething about Dawkin's other atheist work, or because they think its advocating a political ideology.

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:06:43 No.12003868 Report

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>>12000924

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 12:08:46 No.12004020 Report

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 12:37:40 No.12004082 Report

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I’m not joking.
Most people are terriable parents that program rebellion into thier kids

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 13:27:12 No.12004189 Report

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>>12004082
>parents
>sci
...wrong place

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:36:35 No.12004462 Report

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How Not to be Wrong

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:53:10 No.12004515 Report

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>>12004462
Wrong

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 17:25:11 No.12004776 Report

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>>12003506
is not about being the first, is about how he made enough money to get trump elected

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Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 23:36:13 No.12005879 Report

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Thinking fast and slow is really good.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 00:38:29 No.12006016 Report

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>Layman
The Origin of Species even though it isn’t pop-sci, it is so rudimentary and accessible that anyone with a college reading level could understand it.
>auto-didact
Bell’s books on evolution and pic related that you’ve posted. On Growth and Form for the truly committed and also those who have some background in physics.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 01:57:49 No.12006215 Report

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 06:34:01 No.12006771 Report

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>>12000924
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4mQeBsZ5w

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 11:47:22 No.12007290 Report

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>>12002172
Good recommendation

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 19:10:29 No.12008280 Report

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>>12003568
Wave
As for the rest of you.
Perhaps broaden your horizons.
Whilst theory is great to expand your knowledge, you are human after all.
Siddhartha
Self Reliance
Journey to the west. If you can't be assed Monkey.
The problem with many science books is they lack humility.
The Elements is truly one of the greatest books ever written.
If you cant be bothered reading Godel or Turings papers
The Annotated Turing.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 19:14:14 No.12008289 Report

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By far my favourite read of all time.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 19:16:52 No.12008297 Report

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>>12002172
there’s no evidence for multilevel selection brainlet

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 19:20:48 No.12008308 Report

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I'd give them Krashen's paper on language acquisition because it's actually pretty to read. I'd also give them that dover book on intro to info theory because it's super fun to get through. This wouldn't really tell them about what I do but I'd like someone to talk to about the things I like.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 19:23:17 No.12008314 Report

Quoted By: >>12008320

>>12003868
>schlomo sternberg

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 19:25:37 No.12008320 Report

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>>12008314
Its a really good book on Advanced Calc and introduction to Manifolds+Functional Analysis; and Sternberg’s diff geo lectures are also really well done and especially useful to physicists. He is a based Jew.

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Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 21:38:04 No.12008839 Report

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i got this book for my nephew when he was a freshman in high school. it didn't seem awful and he said he enjoyed it. i wouldn't say id recommend it as i never read it, but maybe give it a shot. anything that gets the public at least thinking about science or mathematics is a decent book in my mind though

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