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What's your favorite technical book to read during this time of home quarantine?
- MarlonPro 7y agoNot technical but I started reading Taleb (Black Swan).
- jlangemeier 7y agoI think that it's in the category of soft technical or pop-technical. Similar to something like "Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow," or "How not to be wrong," or even "Mythical Man Month." They're great books to read if you already have some level of technical background to understand the limitations of how they're translating to a more digestible format, but fall into the category of "be afraid of an idiot with a little knowledge" if you don't. Essentially they're wonderful books but can amplify the dunning-kreuger effect.
- rmrfstar 7y agoFound these amazing lecture notes [1]. Topic 3 and the review of Green's Theorem are the best I've seen anywhere. By a long shot. I read somewhere that Omar Bradley solved integrals to clear his mind during the darkest days of WW2. [1] https://math.mit.edu/~jorloff/18.04/notes/ https://math.mit.edu/~jorloff/18.04/notes/
- bionhoward 7y agocausality, by judea pearl a pattern language, by christopher alexander maps of meaning, by jordan peterson on intelligence, by jeff hawkins the fractal geometry of nature, by benoit mandelbrot ^^^ a crash course in cognitive architecture for AI folks
- allenleein 7y agoI'm re-reading these classics: 1. SICP(The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) 2. The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz 3. Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World --- [1]https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/CS-Functional-Programming/(883)The%20Structure%20and%20Interpretation%20of%20Computer%20Programs.pdf https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/C... [2]https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/CE-Problem%20Solving/The-Art-and-Craft-of-Problem-Solving.pdf https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/C... [3]https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/CE-Intelligence/Tribe%20of%20Hackers.pdf https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/C...
- scorecard 7y agoI'm reading "Combat Fighter Tactics and Maneuvering" by Shaw, along with the combat aviation and auto racing manuals at https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers
- JOJO1990123 7y agohttps://bit.ly/3b5Jsj8 https://bit.ly/3b5Jsj8
- dilippkumar 7y agoI can fully recommend "The making of the atomic bomb" by Richard Rhodes[0]. The book begins with Rutherford's experiments that first indicated that an atom might have most of its mass concentrated in a tiny nucleus. From there, it follows the intense period of scientific discovery that captivated that era. It's a fantastic portrayal of the science and the lives of people behind the discoveries. I learnt in highschool that electrons orbit around a nucleus of protons and neutrons. I had taken these facts for granted. This book opened up the world of technical innovations, leaps of imagination and the really amazing discoveries that the smartest people of the era had to grapple with in order to come up with that model of the atom. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/14516776181111 https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/...
- deepaksurti 7y agoThe amazon link is not working. One that works. [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Richard-Rhodes-1987-02-01/dp/B019NEOYDW https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Richard-Rhodes-1987-02-...
- mzaccari 7y agoFor the last few years I've had the Feynman Lectures [1,2] sitting in my queue, and I've finally gotten around to starting them in the last week. It's been a fun ride so far, and it's been nice to have the time to digest the lessons without having to run off somewhere. It's also helped to have the MIT OCW lectures as a reference [3], in which I found a book title "Quantum Mechanics and Experience" [4] that I started reading as well and so far has been the most down-to-earth introduction to Quantum Mechanics that I've found. I highly recommend it. [1] https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ [2] https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp/0465023827/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=feynman+lectures&qid=1584726976&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp... [3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2013/lecture-videos/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s... [4] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674741137/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674741137/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
- scorecard 7y agoI always thought Feynman's treatment of electrodynamics wasn't very original, that it was just the standard approach you could find in other textbooks. It turns out, Feynman thought so to, but later came up with a much better way of teaching electrodynamics: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/100951/what-was-feynmans-much-better-way-of-presenting-the-electrodynamics-which#190880 https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/100951/what-was-...
- jlangemeier 7y agoReworking through "Linear Algebra Done Right", and reading through "The Joy of X".
- contingencies 7y agoGardening for pleasure, Allan Seale.