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Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,095 ratings — published 1996
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,249 ratings — published 1989
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 4,831 ratings — published 1984
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 51,888 ratings — published 1979
Feynman Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics)
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avg rating 4.25 — 474 ratings — published 1996
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,394 ratings — published 1999
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,008 ratings — published 1986
Quantum Computing Since Democritus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,053 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,884 ratings — published 1973
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 522 ratings — published 1969
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 9,442 ratings — published 1993
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 11,857 ratings — published 1994
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 668 ratings — published 1979
The Maniac (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 23,621 ratings — published 2023
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 34,330 ratings — published 2016
The Nature of Computation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.59 — 110 ratings — published 2011
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 135 ratings — published 2007
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 23,092 ratings — published 2007
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,671 ratings — published 1997
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 23,640 ratings — published 1999
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 20,555 ratings — published 2014
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 11,200 ratings — published 1978
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 2,173 ratings — published 2002
Building a Universal Machine: A Hands-on Introduction to Computability (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 9 ratings — published
The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 510 ratings — published 1973
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,857 ratings — published 1988
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness (Series of Books in the Mathematical Sciences)
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avg rating 4.15 — 212 ratings — published 1979
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 5,755 ratings — published 2003
Types and Programming Languages (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.27 — 580 ratings — published 2002
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 496 ratings — published 2013
Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 282 ratings — published 2013
On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 481 ratings — published 1993
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,156 ratings — published 2008
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 5,209 ratings — published 2015
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 460 ratings — published 2007
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,451 ratings — published 2009
The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 961 ratings — published 2017
The Go Programming Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,740 ratings — published 2015
Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,813 ratings — published 1983
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,114 ratings — published 2002
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 116,041 ratings — published 1999
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 9,518 ratings — published 2004
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
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avg rating 4.70 — 10,121 ratings — published 2015
Computability and Logic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 165 ratings — published 1980
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
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avg rating 3.60 — 4,680 ratings — published 2012
The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 680 ratings — published 1949
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 4,278 ratings — published 1999
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 28,629 ratings — published 1999
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,866 ratings — published 2002
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 14,909 ratings — published 1975
“The reason [James Clerk] Maxwell's Demon cannot exist is that it does take resources to perform an act of discrimination. We imagine computation is free, but it never is. The very act of choosing which particle is cold or hot itself becomes an energy drain and a source of waste heat. The principle is also known as "no free lunch."
We do our best to implement Maxwell's Demon whenever we manipulate reality with our technologies, but we can never do so perfectly; we certainly can't get ahead of the game, which is known as entropy. All the air conditioners in a city emit heat that makes the city hotter overall. While you can implement what seems to be a Maxwell's Demon if you don't look too far or too closely, in the big picture you always lose more than you gain.
Every bit in a computer is a wannabe Maxwell's Demon, separating the state of "one" from the state of "zero" for a while, at a cost. A computer on a network can also act like a wannabe demon if it tries to sort data from networked people into one or the other side of some imaginary door, while pretending there is no cost or risk involved.”
― Who Owns the Future?
We do our best to implement Maxwell's Demon whenever we manipulate reality with our technologies, but we can never do so perfectly; we certainly can't get ahead of the game, which is known as entropy. All the air conditioners in a city emit heat that makes the city hotter overall. While you can implement what seems to be a Maxwell's Demon if you don't look too far or too closely, in the big picture you always lose more than you gain.
Every bit in a computer is a wannabe Maxwell's Demon, separating the state of "one" from the state of "zero" for a while, at a cost. A computer on a network can also act like a wannabe demon if it tries to sort data from networked people into one or the other side of some imaginary door, while pretending there is no cost or risk involved.”
― Who Owns the Future?
“We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today’s third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations. Everything is a computation.”
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