Trying to understand BookWyrm vs StoryGraph vs GoodReads and Twitter vs
Mastadon (and beyond), I found this aggregator of alternative
recommendations:
https://alternativeto.net/
which doesn't necessarily solve anything, it just makes it obvious how
challenging "too many choices" can be...
After a lame attempt to go with Mastadon I decided to abandond
Twitter-like things altogether. I doubt I will be willing to throw
GoodReads over for anything else because of the participating base of my
own personal/family network there. I can at least avoid clicking
through a GoodReads recommendation to order from Amazon.
https://alternativeto.net/software/bookwyrm/
I haven't begun (tried?) to evaluate AlternativeTo.Net itself...
Is this the tragedy of the "free market" (subset of "commons")?
On 11/4/22 3:00 PM, glen wrote:
I'd forgotten about this until the release yesterday:
https://joinbookwyrm.com/
On 11/2/22 14:52, Steve Smith wrote:
On 11/2/22 9:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Thanks, Glen.
It would be nice if there were a public bibliographic reference url
that one could use to name a book that only conveyed the thing in
itself. Goodreads was that once, then Amazon bought them. Ditto
for video and audio recordings and other objects of public interest.
I admit to continuing to use Goodreads this way in spite of two
problems... the Amazon affiliation/ownership of course, but also the
too often spotty reviews... I don't provide many nor particularly
good reviews myself, so I've no room to complain really.
So I suppose I agree with your "public bibliographic reference url"
point. It seems as if Wikipedia is a good candidate but I haven't
done the work to understand how new entries are made... are they
always required to be made by a citizen of the community who is NOT
affiliated with the book (publisher, author, etc)? I find a *lot* of
the books I seek in Wikipedia and prefer them for reference when
their book-description (and cross links to related works, author,
etc) are particularly apt, but that is also spotty. I use Goodreads
mostly to follow what family/friends are reading and what *they*
think of their reads.
The trend toward crowd-sourced public-use corpii being acquired by
private interests (even public corporations are private interests) is
disturbing (FB <-Mapillary, Amazon<-Goodreads)...
Twitter->BoringCo, etc)
Eugenia Cheng has other books and a pile of youtube videos.
Interestingly, her primary institutional affiliation is the Art
Institute of Chicago, where as resident scientist she teaches math
to art students. She has a public reading for kids scheduled in
Jersey City this month. Her definition of category theory is "the
mathematics of mathematics" which she expands as "the logical study
of the logical study of logical things."
Hasok Chang has a third book, Is Water H2O, which Amazon fails to
index on his amazon author page, though it is on amazon at a
blistering price in every available format. I found a pdf on the
internets. It's details the history of working out the chemical
identity of water. Two themes are that 1) the consensus answers to
scientific questions often change in anticipation of the arrival of
corroboration, 2) there are often multiple acceptable answers to
scientific questions. These are possibly consequences of being a
realisitic realist.
Interesting set of recursions... we CS types tend to love our
arbitrary-depth recursion, but the special cases like
double-negatives, and Rummy's unkown unknowns and now Chang's logical
logicologoy of logics and realistic realists are ... *special*?
While some may prefer "turtles all the way down" sometimes just a few
turtles deep suffices?
- Steve
PS... couldn't help hearing/reading "Cheech&Chong" on the first
reading of this thread.
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote:
There. I fixed that for you. 8^D
On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned
some books of interest, and while looking for them I discovered
yet another book.
>
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-joy-of-abstraction-an-exploration-of-math-category-theory-and-life-eugenia-cheng/18557720?ean=9781108477222
> Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224>
> Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math,
Category Theory, and Life, published October 2022.
>
> A presentation of category theory that keeps the underlying
algebra basic.
>
https://bookshop.org/p/books/inventing-temperature-measurement-and-scientific-progress-hasok-chang/9513488?ean=9780195337389
> Hasok Chang, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific
Progress
>
> An itemized history of temperature and all the wrong turns
taken along the way, more detail than even the author cares to read
again. Poetic justice to examine the operation of the pragmatist's
ratchet and pawl over the centuries as it rescues workable
definitions of temperature from thermal confusion.
>
https://bookshop.org/p/books/realism-for-realistic-people-a-new-pragmatist-philosophy-of-science-hasok-chang/18368583?ean=9781108470384
> Hasok Chang, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist
Philosophy of Science, available on kindle on November 30, 2022.
>
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