• DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I am a non-reader, so take maybe my opinion doesn’t carry much weight, but I really enjoyed reading GEB as a teenager.

    I think it might’ve been the last book that I read just for the sake of reading, and not with the intention of learning about a specific topic.

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      9 months ago

      I have to say, this is exactly the kind of book a teenager will deem profound.

      It’s essentially the same chapter rephrased about 20 times and manages to stretch a rather simple idea (conceptually, not the proof behind it) way too long. 100 pages would have been enough.

      Maybe I’m biased, because I read it after graduating in computer science, but to me it seemed rather meh. Yeah, recursion exists, yeah fractals are weird, yeah systems can’t accurately describe themselves.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, recursion exists, yeah fractals are weird, yeah systems can’t accurately describe themselves.

        That’s basically all I remember from the book, I figured that I had just forgotten most of it. I was unfortunately one of those 13-year-olds who thought they were much smarter and deeper than they were, so the book being full of itself definitely tracks.