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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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  I guess you can’t go wrong with Charles Petzold. This book is excellent and highly recommended to anyone interested in computing. Must read for computer science students and software developers.

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  The Nature of Code

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  This book is a beautiful introduction to simulations of natural systems. We get concise prose, clear illustrations, and carefully chosen systems with a guided tour through the math. All done in the Processing language, which is fun and easy to pick up. The reason I like this book so much is probably due to timing. In 2013, I was on the verge of abandoning software development. I was fed up. (That's a story for another time.) Instead, I planned to go into cognitive psychology full-time as a researcher. This book brought back the joy in programming for me. Sometimes, a good book is the book that motivated you.

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Engineers are sceptical of formal methods because they were burned by CASE and UML, sold as miracle solutions and imposed on them regardless of fit.

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  I think a lot of the reason people are skeptical of these is because they've been burned by things like case and UML and all these other miracle solutions that were forced on them by people who wanted them to use it no matter what.

  Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com

Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  Putin's objection to the post-Cold-War trade boom is not that it failed but that the wealth was not being made at his house.

  Russia

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  It was a miracle of your lifetimes. It lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The problem for the likes of Putin is that this wealth producing trade was not happening at his house, but the houses of those vested in the trading order, not in extortion.

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Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.

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  The Book That Wouldn't Burn

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  The best book I read last year was Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn, which much to my surprise did not make a single award list for its publication year of 2023. It was a tour de force of world-building that surprised me multiple times.

  eyrie.org

Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  Math Without Numbers

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  A vivid & accessible tour of abstract mathematics.

  tomtunguz.com

Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Merlin Suit

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  Merlin Suit: I dunno what Merlin knows about babies but this sleeping suit is a MIRACLE.

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Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.

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  A House of Dynamite

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  A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)

  kottke.org

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works

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  In Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works, legendary cypherpunk Perry Metzger teams up with Penelope Spector and illustrator Jerel Dye for a tour-de-force young adult comic book that uses hilarious steampunk dinosaurs to demystify the most foundational building-blocks of computers. It's astounding

  pluralistic.net

Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  Logic & Design in Art, Science, & Mathematics

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  A bizarre and fascinating tour de force of analytic design.

  worrydream.com

Developer and designer publishing at pouria.dev; author of the open-source URL shortener Kutt.

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  Akko World Tour Tokyo 87-Key R1

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  Akko World Tour Tokyo 87-Key R1 pink mechanical keyboard.

  pouria.dev

Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  The primordial soup is a miracle story: life needs a continuous flow of reaction, and a soup can never provide one.

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  So, how did they do that? You may as well say that a miracle happened. I don’t believe in soup. I think what we have in a vent is a continuous conversion, a continuous growth, a continuous reaction, a continuous converting a flow of molecules into more of yourself, you might say, even if it’s a small bit.

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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  Electric bikes are worth their cost, flaws and all, because they bring the world nearer

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  Sure, electric bikes aren't cheap. But I believe they're a rare object to be well worth the cost. This in spite of their annoying flaws, their often bad software, their defective geometries. Because they open the world.

  Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Lifecraigmod.com

Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.

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  The European Miracle

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  I recommended Eric Jones’ The European Miracle

  blog.daviskedrosky.com

Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  The e-bike market has no cheap standard model, which is what it would take to make the e-bike a mass product.

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  E-bikes range in price from $1000 to $10,000. The market is still lacking a Toyota Corolla equivalent.

  The Future of E-Bikesaustinvernon.site

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  A hybrid is a poor machine because it carries two complete powertrains, and most e-bikes repeat the same mistake.

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  Hybrid-electric cars are an engineering abomination. They have both gas and electric powertrains, ensuring they are more expensive and complicated than their competitors.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life

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  Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.

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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Legal Systems Very Different From Ours

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  David Friedman, successfully combines the author's three special interests into a whirlwind tour of exotic law.

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