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Gödel Escher Bach

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.

Nat Eliason loved it
This book stretched my mind more than almost any other book I’ve read. It’s tough at parts, it’s long, but you’ll come out of it thinking about brains, minds, intelligence, and AI in an entirely new way.

on nateliason.com · 7 Feb 2020

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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.