Missing out of brain gains

My brain has been wasting away for years.

>abandoned college circa 2015
>lived like a hermit for a long time
>1 minor concussion
>permanent damage to my psyche because of persistent loneliness and shitty life in general

I can rarely think consciously anymore. I forgot what it's like to really study and memorize things, I forgot how to research topics properly.

Jow Forums has also caused major fucking damage to my thinkinking. Stupidity is rewarded while long, correct answers are ignored. Topics are circulating daily. Half the site is retarded teens. I hate myself for getting this low. I've probably spend literally thousands of hours here. I'm not gonna be ok.

>goes bankrupt

Kant is trash.

how to be a bitch nigger for dummies

he never went bankrupt, but i'm sure a genius like you knows the difference, right?

The fact you think this is a retort confirms to me you're poor.

pls dont bully. i'm just reading him so i can move on to other stuff

Where you trying to get to?

>The Decline Of The West by Spengler
>The Little Black Book Of Violence: what every young man needs to know about fighting
>Ride The Tiger by Evola
>The Book Of Disquiet by Pessoa

Spengler is my priority since I'm borrowing it from my library. All the others, besides Pessoa, I have saved electronically. I don't know whether I want to finish Pessoa yet. I would recommend the little black book to anyone, regardless of tastes or ideals. You can find it as a pdf.

Anyone here read at the gym? I usually listen to audio book/creepypasta but I'm considering reading between sets.

schopenhauer, hegel, marx.

I've had Kafka and Gogol books sitting on my living room table for about 6 months. I'll open them any day now.

i read the first chapter of this and im too stupid to enjoy it. why tf did rope walking nigger die and why did he bury him? im just so fucking "huh what"

the /chad/ move would be to form an HIIT literature club with your gymbuddies. 30 minutes of sprinting, followed by 30 minutes of in-depth discussion of Dubliners.

he didn't bury him, he's been carrying his corpse around ever since.

Read Don Quixote or Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Pic related

Just do it. Do you have The Metamorphosis? Start there.

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Siddhartha
Cyclops by Ranko Marinković

It's a collection with Meditation, The Judgement, Metamorphosis, Penal Colony and Letter to his Father. I've read The Judgement (cause it was short haha).

Siddhartha is good. Its reputation is a bit larger than it needs to be but it's still good.

Survivor by Palahniuk
The Problem With Being Born by Cioran
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima

oh, i just assumed he was buried as they laid down in the forest at the end of the first chapter lol. but like... i still don't get it

The Trial is my favorite by him. See if "A Country Doctor" is in your collection, that's my favorite of his short stories.

Finished this one this week. It was amazing, goddamn. Essential high test book.

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more like cringeingway

Please dont make abhorrent posts like this ever again on this nice board.

I've mostly been binge reading sci-fi. Predominantly shitty romance novels set in space but sometimes other stuff. I usually read a book a day since most of them only take about 2 or 3 hours. Getting kindle unlimited on my phone was a mistake. A lot of them come with free audio book versions.

>Under the knife: A history of surgery in 28 remarkable operations

got it as a gift, nearly through, interesting but pretty basic

>The myth of the 20th century

just started reading, but very interesting so far

Huge brained ^
tiny brain
medium brained

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Sula, Toni Morrison.

Those I listed are the only ones in the collection. I'm aware of The Trial, it's on my list if I like the ones I have now.

Any good audiobooks? Got a bluetooth headset recently so I can listen at work. These are the ones I've downloaded so far. I tried The Wheel of Time previously but I wasn't a huge fan.
It's also hit or miss depending on the narrator.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh. Really captivating story, that.I just got to the part I imagine must be the earliest recording of a thot getting patrolled, where Enkidu chucks a slab of the Heaven Bull's carcass into Ishtar's face.

Some boomer at work thinks he's good at chess so now I must destroy him

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I skimmed through that book's preview on Amazon, it seems super simple, just a bunch of positions asking "what do you move", and the examples I saw only were like 1 or 2 moves deep. How are you finding it? I might buy it anyway since it's pretty cheap.

Reading is for imbeciles

Don't get me wrong, you might learn something, but 90% of the shit you read is meaningless and you will not learn anything from it, 90% is even a small number, would even say 99%

Reading is a meme

I came across pic related at a thrift store and it's been one of my best finds. Like Machiavelli's The Prince without being so ruthless, or Meditations without being so passive. A good handbook on how to conduct yourself professionally and cordially without being pompous, arrogant, or deceptive. it's 300 years old so it's public domain and you can read it for free here:

sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/index.htm

Epic of Gilgamesh is some good shit. really underrated. while I wouldn't say it's as good as the Iliad, it's way better than the Odyssey imo

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Excellent if you're interested in the Russian Revolution. It is over 1,000 pages so it is quite comprehensive but still a relatively easy read. I enjoy his writing style. I have also read Figes' book Natasha's Dance which is about the history of Russain culture. A+. I have his book on the Crimean War to read next.

t: camel

Delete the last one. It's pop-anthropology stuff that's lacking science to back up some stuff.

you read, write and speak every day, you fucking moron. even if you learn nothing of the subject material, subconsciously you at least absorb and recognize proper grammar and rhetoric and from it are able to enhance your diction and sharpen your linguistic capabilities.

oh but my bad you're probably spending your incredibly valuable time posting about how much reading sucks on a mongolian rug weaving forum.

man even if you are trolling, you have to look at the reflection in the monitor and ask it if it's really worth spending the time to make shit bait to rile up people you'll never meet, compared to doing something productive like reading a book.

Currently reading Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

Just finished Moby Dick. It was kino. I’ll have to give it a re read sometime though

>Siddhartha
Hesse is one of my favorite authors. Check out Demian, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game as well.

you'll learn a thing or two, do it long enough and you won't be a moron

I'm looking at both the Iliad and the Odyssey sometime soon, is there a particular translation or edition you would recommend?

I dont read shit

You read obviously a lot i can tell

Still we are both here, fucking kek
Did you have a point to prove?

>just a bunch of positions asking "what do you move",
I thought it would be more than that, but I'm on p 76 (still chapter 1) and that's all it is so far. basics like pins, skewers, forks, etc. Probably better served with the puzzles on chess.com or lichess
I'm still going to finish

Fagles by far. lattimore is also acceptable, alexander pope if you're really into flowery language like the KJV bible.

not that guy.
i've read lattimore and fagles and found fagles to be more enjoyable.

Read the Enuma Elish also if you haven't.

>NEET bug-thing sits around in his room all day
>has an apple thrown at him
>dies
saved you a couple of hours

400 companies with 4 going bankrupt.

Oh shit, what a failure.

The point is that I am able to convey my thoughts and emotions more astutely and succinctly across this message board because I have equipped myself with the appropriate diction and use thereof through the study and application of liberal arts.

but like, you just have a tenth of my fucking word list that i use, so you have to use vague shit, like the words things and crap, which makes your messages look all retarded. see how stupid i sound when i talk like you? kek

I like his quotes about (((them)))

>defending Blumpf in 2019

how's that wall coming along?

just recently finished pic related, was devastating and beautiful. will hold a special place in my heart for a long time.

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Also, to any Americans ITT, I'd highly recommend reading Mason & Dixon.

imagine how big of a nigger-brained faggot someone would have to be to even consider voting for someone other than trump after that second debate.

no. we're talking about books now faggot

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That's a good one keep at it
I'm reading Bros Karamazov

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I guess you're enjoying it anyway then, I might buy it.

Just finished Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
Rereading Voltaire' "Candide" and a bunch of his other shorter works.
Next is Camus' "The Plague" (was unimpressed by "The Stranger")

I don't see the point because who are you going to discuss it with. It's better to meet someone who has read the material and learn from them, because otherwise you're just wasting your time when you could be reading manga instead.

>>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
I remember high school.

The big 3 for any political discussions in USA
>Basic Economics
>Freedom to Choose
>White Liberals and Black Rednecks

When I finish one of them I am moving on to Prisoners of Geography or Free Trade Doesn't Work.

Patrician Pynchon poster.

>Being anti-Trump in 2019
How's your dilation coming along?

>reads daily
>still starts sentences with "but like"

not gonna make it

Pynchon's best is unironically Vineland.

what up I'm reading C&P

(by reading I mean I read 1/3 of it like a year ago and took a little break)

>Not Evola
NGTMI

Isn't that one a meme that everyone hated? And I get that Pynchon was the Adam & Omega of memes, but still.

the point was to make fun of his crippled grammar you fucking mongoloid

COPE

World as Will and Representation and Gass' The Tunnel.
I wasn't expecting to understand much of WWR, given the fact I haven't read Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz...but actually Schopenhauer is pretty clear and repeats his thoughts frequently, I'm getting quite a bit from it, and actually, I believe it will help me a lot when I start reading Kant, since I'm reading Schopenhauer's critique of his philosophy.

The Tunnel is absolutely beautifully written and reach its goal with perfection, which is to portray something "as long as life".

I think Schopenhauer name-checks BG somewhere in his similar Wisdom of Life

not him but the guy's statement is at the very least polemical. Vineland is usually one of the works Pynchon readers likes the least. GR, M&D and AtD are masterpieces and in my opinion levels and levels above vineland

Hey, also reading House of Leaves, right about to finish it, will probably get to tonight - where are you, what'd you think?

Advanced R
Asset Price Dynamics, Volatility, and Prediction
+ some tail risk modelling research papers.

R is for redditors. Use Python.

Pynchon’s my favorite writer for sure, because my favorite thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are filled to the brim with this. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book and POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! And then you think “hmmm what’s he gonna do next, this trickster” and you pick the book back up and BZZZZ you get a shock and “hahahaha” you've been pranked again by the old Pynchmeister, that card. “Did that Pynch?” he says, laughing “yukyukyukyuk”. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up his mouth and displays em for you – left, right, center – “You like these? Do I look handsome?” Pulls out a mirror. “Ah!” Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and reappears hauling a huge golden gong.

OP here, some of my previous reads. All very recommended.

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R is the OPTIMAL choice for data analysis. Everything else is cope imo.

Every single industry ML position I've seen requires Python experience. I haven't seen a single posting asking for R.

The Idiot - Dostojevskij

Not every data analysis job is ML you retard. Pythonlets will be replaced quickly when you need a fast implementation on a REAL language like Java

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Wisdom of Life, Zarathustra, some Greek Stoics. Any recommendations from other anons? Enjoy history and philosophy that isnt galaxy brain tier. Not a philosophy major here.

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>Wheel of Time
The last books felt super rushed, pacewise, since the author died and a new guy was asked to finish the series based off the original author's notes. I read that new guy said he could wrote an extra four books based on the extent of the notes left for the last book. Other than that, I really liked those books. They're filled with social and political dealings, as well as fleshes out the cultures of a ton of different people which I dont find too common in books.

Not that user, but I read it a few years ago. I liked it a lot. It was trippy as fuck, and the margin notes of the guy trying to publish the book were fantastic asides. I dont remember much specifically, but I liked it.

none of u niggas could beat me in chess

Zarathustra is kino

>t. just hit 800 on lichess

>tfw 1200

Roadside Picnic
The Stalker in me is enjoying it profusely.

Read BAP