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exploringBabel | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

For advanced Set Theory:

- The Higher Infinite by Kanamori

It's probably more of a monograph than a text book, but it's among the best written monographs I've come across.

For Complex Analysis:

- Visual Complex Analysis by Needham.

It brings a lot of (needed) geometric intuition to a field that is often very easily misunderstood.

exploringBabel | 7 years ago | on: MIT: Observatory for Economic Complexity

So, out of general interest, I was looking for real time visualisations of global trade and economic activity to try and understand our current geopolitical situation a bit better and came across this.

In a similar vein: http://exportpotential.intracen.org/#/home

exploringBabel | 7 years ago | on: Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road

While I think there's a certain romance and grandeur about enormous and lasting infrastructural projects, it's a little frightening how quickly we can forget our mistakes.

Even though so very much has changed in China since the Great Leap Forward in the 50s and 60s, I wonder how carefully the consequences of poor planning, overstretching one's resources, shifting economic conditions and miscalculation were taken into account.