Thinking about getting into Sci-Fi novels. Which ones do you hikarin recommend? I enjoy things like Warhammer 40k, but I don't know much about the pioneers or well established authors of the genre.

This one book i found that is about some really detailed medical problems some people had in the past, mostly really stupid people such as a guy that swallowed 50 knives for fun. I take this book with me sometimes and i show it to people just to disgust them.

I have been reading a lot more lately, which is good. I am almost finished with Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility series. It's nothing short of beautiful. I am not the same person after reading Runaway Horses. Temple of Dawn piqued my interest in Buddhism, so I checked out a book titled "Essence of Buddhism" by Traleg Rinpoche from my library. It's a good introduction, and I'd like to read into Buddhism further. I enjoy political science but have read only little about it. If anyone has recommendations about anything (I'm interested in Mao or Showa Japan) I'd be grateful. >>374 It's not a novel, but a rather touching short story. "The Dandelion Girl" by Robert F. Young. I haven't read it yet but I have "When Sleepers Awake" by H. G. Wells on my list, so I'll throw that out there.

>>374 >I don't know much about the pioneers or well established authors of the genre. This is going to sound weird, but Tolkien was an inflection point for science-fiction just as he was for fantasy. Much like in the fantasy genre, authors before Tolkien focused on exploring an idea or making a point rather than building an open world just for the sake of doing it. So bear in mind that those pioneers were nothing like 40k or really any of the modern sci-fi franchises, which have more in common with Tolkien than with Phillip K. Dick and such. H. G. Wells is a good starting point, I read almost a third of his bibliography when I was in high school and from what I remember, I liked his earlier work from "The Time Machine" to "Kipps", his later stuff was badly written, preachy and so optimistic and utopian that I couldn't take it seriously. I think it is completely valid to prefer modern, Tolkien influenced sci-fi over the old guys, so don't feel obligated to read Asimov or Wells if you don't like them.

>>378 Noted. Thanks for the analysis. I do prefer the worldbuilding for the sake of worldbuilding, I enjoy getting invested into and enthralled by a fantasy or sci-fi world. Honestly, using 40k as an example, I really prefer the idea of the galaxy that 40k builds more than I enjoy any specific storyline within the galaxy. The larger framework in which the authors use to lay out specific stories. Do you have any recommendations for authors that do good worldbuilding?

I will share a list of Intro/Transition to Proof resources: >Textbooks Journey into Mathematics: An Introduction to Proofs - Joseph J. Rotman Proof, Logic, and Conjecture: The Mathematician's Toolbox - Robert S. Wolf Bridge to Abstract Mathematics: Mathematical Proof and Structures - Ronald P. Morash Alice in Numberland: A Students’ Guide to the Enjoyment of Higher Mathematics - John Baylis, Rod Haggarty >Lecture Notes A Primer for Logic and Proof - Holly P. Hirst and Jeffry L. Hirst http://www.appstate.edu/~hirstjl/primer/hirst.pdf Modicum Mathematicum: A Swath Through The Basic Language Of Abstract Math - Paolo Aluffi https://math.hawaii.edu/~pavel/Aluffi_notes_321_Modicum.pdf Proof, Sets, and Logic - M. Randall Holmes https://randall-holmes.github.io/proofsetslogic.pdf Basic Concepts of Mathematics - Elias Zakon http://www.trillia.com/zakon1.html

>>330 hi math-anon. do you have any book recs for real variables that aren't rudin? it's extremely terse and dry and doesn't really motivate much it covers so i want to supplement it i was thinking of going through apostol or abbot but neither seem to cover lebesgue theory or multivariable functions as far as i know

Does any anon know some resources for learning biology ?

>>371 what level of biology?

>>371 Depends on what you're looking for, but OpenStax textbooks are always a good place to start. https://openstax.org/subjects/science They have highschool level bio, college level bio, and microbiology textbooks available for free.

>>114 Yes, I know English.

>>325 Do you really?

English is my second language. Learned Japanese last year for 1 month, probably reaching a level slightly under N5 level. Had to stop due to uni entrance exams, now I`m majoring at Philosophy and want to return to nihongo, though I'll probably learn Deutsch語 since it's fits better for my context and seems cooler than Furansu語. >>158 Your writing is comprehensive so you're doing quite well, in my humble opinion. I'm curious though, what are the other languages you know? (Btw, are you still here, hikarin?)

I’m a native speaker of Greek and learned English since i was young, now im trying to improve my Spanish and learn Russian for my Armenian friend (and for myself ofc)

>>114 I had to learn 3 languages but the one I really had chose to learn is Japanese. I don't have any time for VNs, anime, and games though. Man...

good luck op!

>>346 It's possible, but you need to get lucky. I got scouted out on LinkedIn by a recruiter for a medior Linux sysadmin/devops job without a degree or any prior experience, so it's definitely possible. I may have just gotten extremely, extremely lucky.

fuck everyone's lucky! put the comma wherever you wish!!!!!!!!

I'm doing telecomunications, first year >>335 Never got the point of lisp, C and asm are more fun imo

>>281 First year of biology. It's kinda hard and for some reason we have earth science and I hate it. But otherwise it's cool and I love learning about biochemistry and plants

Computer Science, with a Minor in Physics! Let's make cute programs and find out the secrets of the universe! I wanna build a physically accurate nuclear bomb inside the computer with a bespoke engine and also maybe contribute to Ballistica when I can math!

Caracals are cute & pretty interesting While they're wild animals I would love to keep one as a pet They're pretty aggressive, but it makes for good house security The ears kind of remind me of bat ears

>>17 El Floppa

An Axolotl which can regenerate lost limbs like its spinal cord, even parts of its heart of brain

Lyrebirds can mimic a large range of sounds like other living beings, but also make mechanical sounds

Pistol shrimp can shoot water bullets so fast that they heat up to 4500°C (4 times the temperature lava) and create a loud 218dB shockwave Their bullets are so loud that WWII sonars confused them with enemy ships

>>22 Never knew this before: A group of flamingos is called "flamboyance"

>>107 beautiful name, flamboyance :surprise:

Plate tectonics wasn't an accepted idea until the 60s-70s because people were dumber then

>>22 imageboard boards culture's. It's a wonderful learning experience filled with good effort.

Hello /aca/rin~ I'm gonna try fileshelter software once I get back home today!

yeah, i pretty much changed my mind about deleting it. i'll keep it (but delisted for now)

>>312 Nice, hopefully the spam ends and we get more users.

>>312 Thanks. This is a neat little board.

This board is like Mathchan except it's just one board instead of an entire site.

>>277 I wish we knew more about pre-indo european europe

>>278 same. I'm obssesed what language albanians were talking before indo-europeans givong their language to albanians tribes

>>270 Yup, probably I would do the same. Honestly, a lot of people see it as wrong and a bad way of living, but if you already have money, a own house, and comfort... There is nothing wrong on it. Of course I wouldn't be a hikikomori. I would do exercises and go to a café or something. I'm already very used to being alone, but sometimes I imagine having a GF. The problem is that NEET girls are pure psyops

I would study applied metaphysics aka magic been reading the traditionalist school guenon, schuon, coomaraswamy, evola and evola's books on magic seem pretty cool, buddhist magic also seems pretty cool

>>302 Buddhist magic?

>>302 >I would study applied metaphysics aka magic You know it takes alot of beleif and faith for atheism when all new atheists do even on imageboard boards is regurgitate what their group or favorite atheist says.

>>268 >what would you dedicate your life to studying? why does it fascinate you? Difficult question for me. I believe I'd like to just study anything like philosophy, mathematics, religion and new atheism (even if it's shallow minded anyways) ect. It would just be fun to play video games I suppose and programming if money wasn't a problem or really any academic field.