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Monthly Archives: October 2007

They don’t write reviews like this anymore

Monday, October 29, 2007

If you’re a computer science geek, check out John Siracusa’s review of Leopard at Arstechnica. Its a wonderfully written review which digs deep into the internals of Leopard as an OS, and some really interesting issues right from human interface guidelines to kernel scheduling are discussed. I wish the tech press wrote more often like [...]

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The Joiner King by Troy Denning

Monday, October 15, 2007

I picked up a Star Wars book after a long time. This is the first book of the Dark Nest Trilogy, set after the completion of The New Jedi Order series. A new species is starting to colonize the Galaxy, near the borders of Chiss space – a species with a collective mind. A collective [...]

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Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sunday, October 7, 2007

This book is actually statistics explained in layman’s language, and how it applies to our daily lives. It’s actually less about the mathematical parts of statistics, and much more about the hidden assumptions and surprising results that are counter-intuitive but built-in to statistics – what we perceive as success may be pure luck, or vice [...]

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