https://www.mtsolitary.com/tags/public/ Recent content in public on mt. solitary Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us https://www.mtsolitary.com/20210219111800-books/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mtsolitary.com/20210219111800-books/ Books # List of books I read # 2026 # Balle - On the Calculation of Volume I 2025 # Stephenson - Quicksilver Mod - Things Become Other Things 2024 # Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks Silver - On the Edge MacCulloch - The History of Christianity 2023 # Carr - A Month in the Country Knausgaard and Ekelund - Writing the Beautiful Game Cave and O’Hagan - Faith, Hope and Carnage 2022 # McElreath - Statistical Rethinking Maisel - Why Smart People Hurt Safran - Puff Piece 2021 # Odell - How to Do Nothing Nystrom - Crafting Interpreters 2020 # Sattouf - The Arab of the Future Hari - Lost Connections Turnbull - A Bigger Picture James - Beyond a Boundary Corey - Leviathan Wakes Hofstader - Godel, Escher, Bach 2019 # Balaskas - Active Birth Tolstoy - War and Peace Jemisin - The Stone Sky de Botton - Religion for Atheists Graves - Hypnobirthing Oster - Expecting Better Wilson - First We Make the Beast Beautiful Perry - The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read Nichols - Real Food Pregnancy Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate Smith - White Teeth Jemisin - The Fifth Season 2018 # Knausgaard - My Struggle I Herbert - Dune Franzen - Purity Yaffe - Reckless Daughter 2016 # Silver - The Signal and the Noise 2015 # Tartt - The Goldfinch Books to read # Reading right now # Safran - Depends What You Mean By Extremist Hobb - Assassin’s Apprentice Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan - Faith, Hope and Carnage Ongoing # Wallace - Infinite Jest Schalansky - Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands Next (already own) # Fong and Spivak - Seven Sketches in Compositionality Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks M. https://www.mtsolitary.com/20220529101341-concerts/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mtsolitary.com/20220529101341-concerts/ Concerts # A list of concerts I’ve been to. 2004-04-23. Radiohead + Bumblebeez at Sydney Entertainment Centre. 2005-04-01. Cake at the Enmore Theatre. 2005-04-02. Ben Folds at the Enmore Theatre. 2006-04-12. Sigur Ros at the Enmore Theatre. 2006-09-07. Okkervil River at Newtown RSL. 2007-01-16. Tenacious D at the Horden Pavilion. 2007-07-05. The Seabellies + Bird Automatic + The Small Hours at the Hopetoun Hotel. 2008-01-23. Arcade Fire + Spoon at Enmore Theatre. https://www.mtsolitary.com/20220906223257-front_end_development/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mtsolitary.com/20220906223257-front_end_development/ Front-end development # I first started programming when I was 16 (so 18 years ago) and have only ever really touched Python seriously. I have been writing Python for a living (alongside SQL and a bunch of other backend-y and data-y things) for 7 years, and did quite a bit of other hacky programming during the 4 years of my PhD thesis. So I have quite a bit of experience writing code. https://www.mtsolitary.com/20211031134029-music/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mtsolitary.com/20211031134029-music/ Music # Links and resources # A nice explanation of why D-flat and E-sharp are not exactly the same. A fantastic way to encode simple folk melodies and classify them. A great textbook - The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music. A nice introduction to music theory for programmers.