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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.*

Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that "computer science" is not a science and that its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be calledprocedural epistemology -- the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects. Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "what is." Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "how to."*

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These are the books (excluding profession, technical, and reference works) I finished reading in 2011, ranked here in order of how memorable I found them.

1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
2. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
3. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
4. The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs
5. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
6. On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda
7. They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
8. The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr
9. He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
10. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
11. The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
12. Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout
13. Three Doors to Death by Rex Stout
14. Before Midnight by Rex Stout

I'm going to try to make more time to read in 2012.

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