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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Barry Ritholtz recommends it affiliate
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: A masterwork from 1979 that focuses on how cognition can emerge via a variety of hidden neurological mechanisms. I always regretted blazing through GEB in college for a class. This is the summer when I finally get to reread it slowly and carefully.

on ritholtz.com · 28 May 2019

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.