Olifante *

Member since Mar 27, 2008 with 2090 Public Bookmarks (2263 total)

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Curious, eclectic

 

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interests: programming languages,natural languages,Python,Ruby,Haskell,Erlang,Mandarin Chinese,juggling,swimming,piano,classical music

hobbies: playing piano,ball juggling,playing Nintendo Wii
Favorite Music:
Air,Beck,Manu Chao,Arcade Fire,Devendra Banhart,Ojos de Brujo,Marisa Monte,Chico Buarque,Zeca Afonso,Fausto,White Stripes,Cujo,Amon Tobin,Peace Orchestra,Boards of Canada,Dufay,Claudio Monteverdi,Johann Sebastian Bach,Telemann,Frederic Chopin,Franz Schubert,Gustav Mahler,Claude Debussy,Maurice Ravel,Poulenc,Milhaud,Béla Bartók,Shostakovitch,Sergey Prokofiev,Messiaen,Pärt,Miles Davis,Charlie Parker,Errol Garner,Django Reinhardt,Bessie Smith,Thelonious Monk,Bob Dylan,Cecilia Bartoli,Marco Beasley,Kraftwerk,Brian Eno,The Sound,Wolfgang Press,King Crimson,Robert Fripp,David Sylvian,The Fall,Joy Divison,Kurt Weill
Favorite Movies:
Mulholland Drive,Don't Move - Die and Rise Again!,Rumble Fish,Memento,The Usual Suspects,City of God,Good Bye Lenin!,Spirited Away,The Shining,Il Piccolo Diavolo,Johnny Toothpick,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Being John Malkovich,Pan's Labyrinth,Shallow Grave,Reservoir Dogs
Favorite TV:
Twin Peaks,Rome,New Battlestar Galactica,Black Adder,Brideshead Revisited,Northern Exposure,Yes Minister,Soap,The Simpsons,Robot Chicken,Dexter's Lab,Ren & Stimpy,Aeon Flux,South Park,SpongeBob SquarePants,Cow and Chicken,I Am Weasel
Favorite Books:
Guns Germs and Steel,The Language Instinct,Gödel,Escher and Bach,Le Ton Beau de Marot,The Loom of Language,What is the Name of this Book,Touched with Fire,The Emperor's New Mind,Writing Systems,The Chinese Language - Fact and Fantasy,Goldstein's Classical Mechanics,Gurtin's An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics,Hirsch & Smale's Differential Equations,Dynamical Systems and Linear Algebra,Kai Lai Chung's Elementary Probability Theory,Cohen-Tanoudji's Mécanique Quantique,Griffiths' Introduction to Elementary Particles,Bransden and Joachain's Physics of Atoms and Molecules,Huang's Statistical Mechanics,A Little Java - a Few Patterns,The Little Schemer,Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture,Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,Alan Turing - The Enigma of Intelligence,Perdido Street Station,Ubik,The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,Now Wait for Last year,Marune Alastor,Gateway,Dune,The Lathe of Heaven,The Dispossessed,Flow My Tears the Policeman Said,Permutation City,Non-Stop
Heros:
Charles Darwin,Alan Turing,Albert Einstein,Niels Bohr,John von Neumann,Richard Feynman,Thomas Jefferson,Douglas Hofstadter,Philip K. Dick,Mário Soares,Paul Graham,Noam Chomsky,Roger Penrose,Gottfried Leibniz,Richard Stalmann,Tim Berners-Lee,Guido van Rossum,Simon Peyton Jones,Hieronymus Bosch,M.C Escher,Richard Dawkins,Daniel Dennett,Alan Kay,Donald Knuth,Guy Steele,Gerald Sussman,Seymour Papert,Chuck Moore,Bob Kahn,Vint Cerf,Douglas Engelbart,Dan Ingalls,Phillip Wadler,Saunders Mac Lane,Edward Lorenz,Mitchell Feigenbaum,Martin Gardner,Steve Jobs,Ken Thompson,Dennis Ritchie,William Clifford