% Thoughts for January 22-29, 2012
% Michael Stone
% January 29, 2012

Some fun books I encountered this week:

  * Earl A. Coddington's ["An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations"][diffeq]
  * Larry Niven's ["Ringworld"][ringworld]
  * Gerry Sussman's and Jack Wisdom's ["Functional Differential Geometry"][fdc]

Also, I (finally!) managed to send off two queued-up patches to:

  * add `db_sync` to the Haskell [BerkeleyDB][] [bindings][] and to
  * update the Haskell [protocol buffers][] [library][] to build with [ghc-7.4].

[diffeq]: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Ordinary-Differential-Equations-Mathematics/dp/0486659429
[ringworld]: http://www.amazon.com/Ringworld-Larry-Niven/dp/0345333926
[fdc]: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/calculus-indexed.pdf
[BerkeleyDB]: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17276_01/html/api_reference/C/frame_main.html
[bindings]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BerkeleyDB
[protocol buffers]: http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html
[library]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/protocol-buffers
[ghc-7.4]: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2011-December/021310.html