Reading April 2019

Updated the code a little - if I'm looking for it, it's in the Sublime 2.7 folder and it's called date.py.  I can count books at 50 pages a day, although I try to fit them within the context of a month.  Didn't include the over 300 pages of self written novel I read yet again and I'll log ITIL training next month.

import datetime, calendar year = 2019 month = 4 num_days = calendar.monthrange(year, month)[1] print("<ul>") for i in range(num_days, 0, -1): print(" <li>" + str(month) + "/" + str(i) + "/" + str(year) + ": </li> ") print("</ul> ")

Reading for April 2019...

• 4/30/2019: Tiamat's Wrath (500 pages) - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse Series)
• 4/29/2019: Twin Cities Product Conference 2019
• 4/28/2019: Tiamat's Wrath (500 pages) - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse Series)
• 4/27/2019: Tiamat's Wrath (500 pages) - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse Series)
• 4/26/2019: Tiamat's Wrath (500 pages) - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse Series)
• 4/25/2019: Tiamat's Wrath (500 pages) - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse Series)
• 4/24/2019: Tiamat's Wrath (500 pages) - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse Series)
• 4/23/2019: GraphQL meetup at 612 Brewing
• 4/22/2019: Tiamat's Wrath (500 pages) - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse Series)
• 4/21/2019: What's New About Conspiracy Theories - the New Yorker
• Pretty straightforward discussion with some academics around the current state of conspiracy theory.  Not specific theories so much as why it seems like there are many, why it is and isn't a change, and how they reoccur.  
• 4/20/2019:
• 4/19/2019: The Data Science Happy Warriors Podcast: Episode 2: Data Wrangling: Why you gotta do what you gotta do by Matt Pettis [12:43]
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• 4/18/2019: How to be More Productive by Working Less
• I like this less in retrospect.  I get it, but some things require longer experiments to prove you can do it.  It's not all about optimization.  For example: 100 mile bike ride.  I need to be able to do 50 strong. I can assume if I can do an hour strong I can do the full 100 miles.  There's a mental element as well.  I don't think he's actually saying that's not the case; he's saying MOST things can be optimized for where you get real returns and not diminishing returns.
• 4/17/2019: The Data Science Happy Warriors Podcast: Episode 1: Knowing Your Data Like Scottie Knows the Enterprise by Matt Pettis [19:45]
• Understand your data.  Run it through charts and 5 number distribution (and real tests)
• https://www.hackmath.net/en/calculator/five-number-summary: min, max, quartile 1, quartile 3, median >> flashbacks to RPI
• 4/16/2019: The Waif Woman by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Also very fairy tale/Arabian Nights-esque in a way.
• 4/15/2019: The Isle of Voices by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Very Arabian Nights, but set in Hawaii.  Fun story.
• 4/14/2019: The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
• I picked up the collection for this story.  It was probably the best of them so far, with the exception of Jekyll and Hyde.  Although the husband's dickishness when his wife is sad is pretty disappointing and doesn't have enough character depth to support.  A nice change in modern novels.
• Now I need to go check out the trick taking game Bottle Imp.
  
• 4/13/2019: Code Camp 23 at Normandale Community College
• 4/13/2019: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• I completely forgot he wrote this!  It was a surprise to find it in the book (which I picked up so I could read The Bottle Imp).  It's amusing how Hyde has become this big, powerful, superhuman like character in graphic novels and adaptations, and in the original he's a twisted (or at least the illusion of twisted) dwarf because that aspect of Jekyll's personality was exercised less often.
• It was also interesting to read the part where Jekyll claimed depending on his frame of mind, he might have summoned a create of goodness.  It was his expectation that was creating the alter ego.
• 4/12/2019: Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson
• I think this was the weirdest of the stories.  It was definitely gothic.  So maybe it was exploratory in that vein.  Vampire like.  But you couldn't really say the mother was vampiric.
• 4/11/2019: ‘Daddy hurt her’: Nobody believed a boy’s story, until he dug up the backyard 20 years later
• 4/10/2019: Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Pretty standard twist in a story about meeting the devil or what the character assumes is an agent of evil.  Puts me in mind of a story I wrote along similar lines, which is why those stories are on the list of "stories we don't really want to see" for publishers.  They've been done for two hundred years.
• 4/9/2019: How a two-year-old Facebook post may lead to jail time for a visitor to Dubai
• 4/9/2019:  Atlantic City: 'Trump turned this place into a ghost town'
• 4/9/2019: The Innocence Project has new digs at the University of Minnesota Law School 
• 4/8/2019: Two rival AI approaches combine to let machines learn about the world like a child
• 4/7/2019: How to Speak up in a Meeting, and When to Hold Back - HBR by Allison Shapira.
• Something I was talking to Jessica about regarding our corporate culture.
• 4/6/2019: Three Men Vanished From a Scottish Island 100 Years Ago and People Are Still Looking
• 4/5/2019: https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/build-an-ai-powered-chatbot
• Made myself a judge triviabot. Super simple. Very funny.
• 4/4/2019: Google Spent 2 Years Researching What Makes a Great Remote Team. It Came Up With These 3 Things
• 4/3/2019: The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Also not very scary by today's standards.  But it led to an interesting discussion with my sister who was recently to Scotland and saw the bards to prevent stealing corpses.
• 4/2/2019: Thrawn Janet by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• This was hard to read as it had so many Scottish words in it.  Old Scottish words.  A pretty straight forward story - not very scary (by today's standards).
• 4/1/2019: Will o' the Mill by Robert Louis Stevenson
• About a man who never leaves where he is because of an interaction with a stranger, and an inability to interact with another stranger (potential wife).