Retrospective on "my bookshelf picture"
My previously shared bookshelf picture got a hit peak and this got me thinking: Most of my books are more than 20 year old. Some are from my dad and his older brothers. That means they are sixty+ years old! (FYI my dad, Socrates Litsios , recently passed away, had a PhD from MIT (operational research in EE department)). I have never been a linear student (except with audio books). I tend not to read books but to read publications. And even then, I skim the publications, I do not read them. However, I do a lot: I program prototype on prototype during my spare time. I implement software for real professionally, mostly in rocket science areas that rely on math. Therefore most of these books still resonate with me, having used much what is in them. That is why I keep them. Once a year I throw out the books that no longer resonate. A month ago I put 30 of these books on a chair on the sidewalk, including my Collected Algorithms from ACM books (mostly Fortran in print). At th...