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Wants to read Flashlight

Wants to read Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare

Rated Wool 8/10

Rated Dark Intelligence 10/10

Rated Dark Diamond 10/10

Rated Earth Unaware 6/10

Rated Baptism of Fire 8/10

Rated Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot: The Ultimate Guide to Hockey Analytics 10/10

Rated Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 8/10

Added Blood of Elves to Currently Reading

Finished reading The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe

Rated The Rose That Grew From Concrete 10/10

Rated Thinking, Fast and Slow 10/10

Reading The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

Rated The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 10/10

Rated We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe 6/10

Rated The Physics of Hockey 8/10

Wants to read Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

Finished reading Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey's Greatest Coaches

Rated The Giver Graphic Novel 8/10

Wants to read The Wandering Earth: Classic Science Fiction Collection

Rated System Collapse 10/10

Rated Functional Programming in Scala 10/10

Fantastic book about functional programming in general using the Scala language.<br/><br/>I really liked the way they went through some well chosen examples before introducing higher level abstractions like Monoids, Applicatives and Monads. That really helped to cement the general pattern to look for and how to structure your code to use these abstractions. It helped that the book used Scala which doesn't necessarily include special support for these sort of abstractions, as you got to see how to build them yourself and it didn't gloss over how they worked. Which is sometimes a failing of other Haskell FP material and it's certainly refreshing not to hear about burritos or such nonsense in describing Monads.<br/><br/>I felt that the use of algebras, while interesting and something I'll likely lean on, was a bit vague and not followed through as much as I'd have liked.<br/><br/>Fantastic book, that I'll be coming back to again. I view this more of a FP book rather than a Scala book so I think it has value for people interested in Haskell, OCaml or other FP languages.

Rated Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia 8/10

Rated A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow 8/10