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poorlyknit | 1 year ago

If you haven't already, read "Gödel, Escher, Bach". It sounds like you would enjoy it. For me its more of a "pick it up somewhere in the middle and get inspired" than "front-to-back" title but iirc it considers the halting problem and the incompleteness theorem to be two sides of the same coin.

ISBN is 3423300175.

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s4mw1se|1 year ago

Funny you recommended this book. It what inspired me to go back to school and enroll in compsci. I forgot that’s where this seed was planted. I think it’s safe to say it really resonated with me lol.

I really appreciate your comment. That book has been sitting behind me on my bookshelf for years blending into background. I just pulled it off the shelf.

I just graduated a few weeks ago after working on my BS for 10 years. The fact that you brought this book up, the piece that inspired me to go back to school in the first place… is something Hofstadter would probably refer as my minds I recursive loop of existence. Something of that sentiment at least