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Michael Nielsen

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Many of the books below listed as by me are not, in fact, by me. Goodreads makes it timeconsuming and difficult to change this, so I don't bother. It's a real pain though.

On friend requests: I use the "updates" list a lot to find new books. So I will only accept friend requests if either (a) we're actually friends; or (b) your list of updates is mostly books that look really interesting to me, and like the kind of thing I might otherwise not see. It doesn't mean I don't like you if I don't accept the request!

On technical books: I struggle with how to shelve technical books. Serious reading of such a book may take an hour or more per page; I will rarely seriously read the entire book for that reason. On the other hand, I would like to put th ...more

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	Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science 3.94 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neural Networks and Deep Learning 4.57 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quantum Computing for The Very Curious 4.66 avg rating — 35 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quantum Country by Andy Matuschak, Michael Nielsen (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design: Design and extend complete applications using Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 by Mark Brummel, Michael Nielsen (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kingdom of the Red and White Banner by Michael Nielsen (Goodreads Author), Natasha La (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	essay on learning and motivation liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Princeton University Press byNielsen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Path to Fulfillment: Embracing Your True Calling 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

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How Fiction Works

by James Wood

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Michael Nielsen said: " I enjoyed this, and learned some useful things from it.

That said, it's a strange book.

It's about the detailed carpentry of a certain kind of literary writing - taking apart the details, understanding exactly what they do. This is fun and occasionally ...more "

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A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

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Michael Nielsen and 2 other people liked Molly Caitlin's review of Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins: "I originally gave this book 5 stars and it was one of my most favorite books I read this year, but after listening to the podcast “why fossil nerds are pissed right now” on Science Vs, I came back to rate it 2 stars. It turns out the Lee Berger did n" Read more of this review »
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Michael Nielsen wants to read A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircea Eliade	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michael Nielsen rated a book it was ok Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Abandoned about 3/4 of the way through. There is a great book to be written about Homo naledi, but this isn't it. The discovery itself is remarkable, but the author comes across as a vain, self-absorbed twit. Perhaps a third of what I read was concer ...more
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Michael Nielsen wants to read Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science) by Hasok Chang	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michael Nielsen wants to read Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Memoir	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michael Nielsen wants to read Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality by William C. Wimsatt	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly”
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“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”
― Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

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“If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.”
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“Function reforms form, perpetually.”
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