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A dialogue-style introduction to recursion and Scheme by Friedman and Felleisen.

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Five memorable books about programming (2008)
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Readers found it so delightful that one bought extra copies just to lend out.

The Nature of Computation ↗Learning & books
A book by Moore and Mertens on computational complexity and the theory of computation.
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The Elements of Computing Systems ↗Learning & books
Nisan and Schocken's book on building a computer from first principles.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach ↗Learning & books
Douglas Hofstadter's book on formal systems, self-reference and minds.
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The Little Book of Deep Learning ↗Learning & books
A compact free book by François Fleuret covering deep learning foundations.
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Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗Learning & books
An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.
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Unix Text Processing ↗Learning & books
A 1987 book by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly on typesetting with troff, now freely available.
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Logic for Programmers ↗Learning & books
Hillel Wayne's book on applying logic to programming.
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Specifying Systems ↗Learning & books
Leslie Lamport's book teaching the TLA+ specification language.
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Careless People ↗
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
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The Expanse ↗
A science fiction novel series later adapted for television.
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The Mythical Man-Month ↗
Fred Brooks' classic book of essays on software project management.
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Wikipedia
A free collaborative online encyclopedia.
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Blindsight ↗
A science fiction novel by Peter Watts that explores consciousness and perception.
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years ↗
A book by David Graeber on the history of debt, credit and money.
2 threads
Diátaxis ↗
A framework for organising technical documentation into tutorials, how-tos, reference and explanation.
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Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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From Bauhaus to Our House ↗
Tom Wolfe's critique of modernist architecture.
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How Complex Systems Fail ↗
A short essay by Richard Cook on the nature of failure in complex systems.
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Superintelligence ↗
Nick Bostrom's book on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.
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The Big Short ↗
A 2015 film about the 2008 housing and credit collapse.
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