I was going over some old folders when I stumbled on to this mind map of the book “Calculus Gallery”. Indeed, a picture is worth a thousand blah blah blahs.

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Yesterday was a rather unpleasant day for me. Whenever I am in a bad mood / I become restless I pick up this book by Anne D LeClaire, titled, “ Listening below the noise”. For some reason this book has been my best companion over the past few years. I reread parts of this book from time to time. This time around, I thought I should blog about this and write a few words about the book.

[ The author of “R Inferno”, Patrick Burns, starts off by saying, “If you are using R and you think you’re in hell, this is a map for you”. Well, this fantastic book needs to be read by any R programmer, irrespective of whether he thinks he is in hell or not. The metaphor used in this book is that of journey through concentric circles, each circle representing people (programmers) who are suffering in pain because of “violating the proper programming conduct”.

Via NYT( The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami) Murakami sold his jazz club in order to devote himself, full time, to writing. “Full time,” for Murakami, means something different from what it does for most people. For 30 years now, he has lived a monkishly regimented life, each facet of which has been precisely engineered to help him produce his work. He runs or swims long distances almost every day, eats a healthful diet, goes to bed around 9 p.