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Re: Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?

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Post by mdp2021 »

ldehaan wrote: post #9

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism - Joel Kotkin (its a brainful) Algorithns to live by - Brian Christian Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel khaneman The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom - James Burnham

> Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian [and Tom Griffiths]

I think it would have been very difficult for Brian Christian alone to produce Algorithms to Live by: Tom Griffiths must have had a very strong presence in it.

It was Tom to give the "appetizer" presentation at TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_griffiths_3_ways_to_make_bette...

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By the way, I see that Brian Christian has published a The Alignment Problem - Machine Learning and Human Values, https://brianchristian.org/the-alignment-problem/

Has anyone read it?

Re: Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?

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Post by johngossman »

"Range: How generalists triumph in a specialized world" "How to win friends and influence people" "The History of Western Philosophy" Russell...though the Anthony Kenny series is at least as good. "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" open at any page and there is an interesting story.

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

louhike wrote: post #19

The Myth of Sisyphus By Albert Camus. A great philosophy book, not that hard to read, about the absurdity of life. Camus talks about suicide in this context, and why life still has meaning despite its absurdity. The Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson. As the title implies, it talks about caring less about what other think (while not being a narcissist). And how it can make you more happy and more likeable.

I feel like those are related.

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ghshephard wrote: post #18

Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols 2nd Edition - Radia Perlman Every 2-3 years, particularly in the periods when I'm not actively in network engineering, I re-read this book from start-finish - and it just completely centers my mindset with regards to pretty much every fundamental topic in Network Engineering. There almost didn't need to be a 2nd Edition - most of the major to…

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Post by cyberpunk »

Grimeton wrote: post #2

"White Line Fever"

    If the stars fall down on me
    And the sun refused to shine
    Then may the shackles be undone
    May all the old words cease to rhyme
    If the sky turned into stone
    It will matter not at all
    For there is no Heaven in the sky
    Hell does not wait for our downfall

Re: Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?

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Post by coffeemug »

Froedlich wrote: post #11

I'm re-reading Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" at the moment. It's about Data General and the development of a new minicomputer. I read it at the dawn of my IT career in the 1990s and found much of was still relevant then. (the book was written in 1981) Thirty years later, I'm mostly just nodding as I follow along; yep, yep, yep. "Engineering" is a distant second to corporate politics and office pecking or…

I looked up Sled Driver and the cheapest I can find is $350 on eBay (with $475 being the next best price). Where did you find the book?
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