Today I learned that quickreading scientific text isn’t all that quick at all. I have a theoretical exam on information theory on Tuesday and to start off the studying I wanted to read Shannon’s original paper on the topic, all 55 pages of it. Seeming as how quickreading is a little bit like opening a [...]

They say the digital book revolution is upon us, that in a few more years everybody reading a dead-tree book will be silly, people with bookshelves fetishists and soon after that we’ll arrange witch hunts against anyone even thinking about killing a tree for t heir amusement. They also say 2005