I love flipping the pages of The Red Book. I am charmed by Jung’s calligraphy and art. Even if I don’t understand enough High German. The entire book is a work of art.

But anyway... What makes this book special? The website is not so great. Got a review maybe?

https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-scal...

http://www.redbook.io/

Also check out anything Haskell/Eta/OCaml for server side (and probably also a bit of a steep learning curve) or if you're currently a front end developer CHECK OUT ELM NOWWWWWW. Core beginner concepts to youtube would be currying, higher order functions, and composition. Monads will come once you've mastered map/flatMap/reduce/fold chaining.

But the "color" books like the Red Book or the Orange Book have other actual names, and people just gave them the "color" name because they were classic references. It's like this one just presumes that it's as important as the others and has to have a classic name.

Disclaimer: This complaint is obviously not serious.

And truth to what you say about the glass bead game, the first 200 pages are a torture, but I still cherish it even for the metaphor alone. Do you know of any book that does a better job bringing that across? That'd be very interesting.

+ Edit to my post: Meant to put Finnegan's wake to Joyce, not Ulysses! (even thought that's a pretty decent mindbender in itself)

+ Some I forgot:

- C G Jung - The Red Book (get the readers edition)

- Nobody mentioned McKenna! 'True Hallucinations' for example. Skip everything to do with I Ching and Timewave.

- Illuminatus! trilogy was only mentioned once for some reason (but then horrible to read)

- Toffler - Third Wave

- Gibson - Neuromancer

- Hesse - Demian

- P K Dick - Electric Sheep

- J A West - Serpent in the sky

- R A Wilson - Prometheus Rising

and some awesomely trippy, mindbending 'children's books':

- Preußler - Krabat

- Lindgreen - Brothers Lionheart

- Ende - Momo

The Red Book can give you many ideas [2].

Mark Callaghan has been published a lot of stuff related to LSM recently [3].

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.219...

[2] http://www.redbook.io/

[3] https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/?m=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(Jung)

I haven't bothered to try to read most of it, but it makes for a good conversation piece, at least. It's very big and, well, red. Jung's drawings are quite beautiful, his medieval-style handwriting is strangely intricate, and of course everybody knows Jung by name, so it has that aura of celebrity genius.

I think my issue with conventional psychiatric drugs and talk therapy is that they are what Tylenol is to a headache, they don't actually cure the condition, they simply mitigate the symptoms. So it's clear that conventional psychiatry has no clue of the root causes, and doesn't yet understand what exactly in the body or brain causes the symptoms. In that sense, I feel anything that can show a return to "normalcy" and has a root cause explanation, should be considered very seriously and researched deeply, over what simply mitigates symptoms.

> The long-term use of antibiotics especially worries him, because it could contribute to the problem of drug-resistant bacteria. This is still the mainstream position: The most recent edition of the Red Book, an exhaustive guide to childhood infectious diseases published every three years by the American Academy of Pediatrics, goes out of its way to recommend that children with PANS and PANDAS symptoms not be given an extended course of antibiotics.

That's a valid concern, but I feel someone curious (like me), just has to wonder, well why are the antibiotics needed for so long? What is it here that prevents them from actually getting rid of strep in the brain? Maybe there are alternatives to just permanent antibiotics dosing.

Keep in mind that the scope of a "database" can be huge, so you might want to start really small, e.g., writing a basic key-value store that can support things concurrent reads & write, isolation, etc. It all depends on what interests you.

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[1] http://www.redbook.io/

[2] http://www.electricmonk.nl/data/freeitebooks/fntdb07-archite...

The text of the review:

This book is well-known in academic database circles as "The Red Book" (in fact, the editors maintain a useful web site at http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/) and is a canonical resource in those circles. It's primarily intended as a reader/textbook for a graduate course in database systems and has a heavy emphasis on implementation issues. It contains a fair number of classic papers that should be read by anybody who actually works on database engines as well as a number of more recent papers that should be read by anyone who does research in database systems. The usefulness for end-users of databases (i.e., application writers) is unclear.
The 3rd edition, in my opinion, improves upon the 2nd edition considerably. Of course, it freshens the paper selection in some areas. More importantly, it prunes the number of subject areas considerably, resulting in a more manageable collection (in more ways than one!). For example, a great deal of work was performed in the late 1980s and early 1990s in areas such as extensibility and active database management. By the late 1990s, the SQL3/SQL1999 train had already left the station - work still goes on in these areas, but at a greatly reduced rate. Conversely, data mining and decision analysis have become hugely important areas, and the new Red Book has a section on it.

If there's a place where this book "missed the boat," it would probably be in terms of applications. The editors cut the section on user interfaces and programming models and have always ignored unstructured/semistructured data models. In these days of the Web, this choice is questionable; on the other hand, a lot of the most reasonable work in these areas has in fact appeared since 1998, so it's a bit hard to criticize with any degree of fairness!

The canonical undergrad textbook is "Database Management Systems" by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke. I've often been confused by papers we read and gone to this book for a foundation before jumping back into the paper. There are a _lot_ of chapters I haven't read (namely the first few on ER diagrams, etc.), but the chapters on storage/indexing/query evaluation/transaction management/normalization are good if you read them a few times.

The graduate-level book is called "The Red Book" (http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/), and is a great source of foundational papers in the field. You can find most of the papers online, but the introduction gives you a good sense for the history and evolution of databases.

I hope this helps!