Revenge as a Motivation for Abusive Parents
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As I have alluded to in my previous post, I’m current reading Alice Miller’s For Your Own Good.
(Coincidentally, she passed away just a few days before I wrote that post, although I didn’t know about this at the time.)
I’m only about half way through the book, but one particular idea really struck me, and I wanted to write something about it. It’s so obvious in retrospect, and explains so much about the behaviour of my biological parents towards me throughout my life, that I’m shocked that I hadn’t thought of it earlier myself… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Albert Kwok-Wai Yeung 「楊國偉」 and Agnes Yuk-Lan Yu 「余玉蘭」 are child abusers
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This post will not mean very much to anyone other than myself.
Albert Kwok-Wai Yeung 「楊國偉」 and Agnes Yuk-Lan Yu 「余玉蘭」 are child abusers. I just wanted to post this fact on the Internet so that it can be recorded for posterity… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss
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The previous post advertising the Perimeter Institute’s Master’s program reminded me of this book, which continues my series “a life in books”.
The Physics of Star Trek
by Lawrence M. Krauss is geared more towards Star Trek fans than towards physicists… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Horizons: Exploring the Universe, by Michael A. Seeds
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It’s been a while since I’ve made a post in the series “a life in books”.
This textbook
was a gift from Dr. John Percy, professor of astronomy at the University of Toronto. I did some research on Be stars with Dr. Percy while I was in high school, and I had expressed to him my interest in studying astronomy and astrophysics in university.… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Programming exercises and comparison of programming languages
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I started programming when I was eight years old. The first programming language I learned was Basic, followed very shortly by C and 8086 assembly language. During elementary school, I was also exposed to Pascal and Logo. I ignored Pascal because it seemed to me that anything I could do in it I could already do with C, and although I had some fun with Logo’s turtle graphics, I didn’t take it very seriously. At the time, I didn’t appreciate its connection with Lisp and other “serious” programming languages… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Two popular books on fuzzy logic
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These are two popular books on fuzzy logic: Bart Kosko’s Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic
, and Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger’s Fuzzy Logic
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Fuzzy logic was pioneered by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh, whom I met when he gave a lecture at the University of Toronto… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
365 Ways to Kiss Your Love by Tomima Edmark
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This
was a gift from my ex-girlfriend while we were still dating. The lip print on the transparent card is actually hers, and the silk handkerchief is what the book was wrapped in when she gave it to me.
It was a very thoughtful and romantic gift… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Funk & Wagnalls Canadian College Dictionary
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I had actually obtained this book
shortly after arriving in Canada at the age of eight. I think it was either a gift or a hand-me-down, but I don’t remember exactly how I got it… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Object Oriented Turing
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I suppose that this post is a continuation of the one on old software and books.
The Turing programming language (named after Alan Turing) was developed at the University of Toronto as an introductory language for teaching computer programming at the high school level. It was (and apparently still is) widely used in Ontario… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Web of Hate and Dragons of Crime
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Continuing on the Nazi theme established by the two previous posts, today we have Warren Kinsella’s Web of Hate
, which is about Canada’s “far right” network, a book that was controversial when it was first published and continues to be controversial today… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
