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Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
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#2Not new, but "Hacking - The Art of Exploitation".
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#3I tend to get most of my CS content from papers & web pages, but Sutton & Barto's Reinforcement Learning book is pretty good: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book-2nd.htm...
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#4A New Science - Wolfram
Maybe stretching outside the typical, but I have a weakness for cellular automata.
Also, I've vowed never to buy another Oriely book or similar book ever. Online docs are free and stay up to date.
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#5Does ai count as CS?
If so, I'd like to nominate the Deep Learning Book
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#6Has anyone read "The Impostor Handbook"[0]? What do you think of it?
[0] https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/
Edit: I'm not connected to the book.
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#7Has anyone read "The Impostor Handbook"[0]? What do you think of it? [0] https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/ Edit: I'm not connected to the book.
I think it's well intentioned and the author seems like someone who has put a lot of work into something they think is important, but it contains some terrible technical misunderstandings, and that's a real shame as I cringe thinking about a developer without a CS degree who's read this book to make themselves more confident in interviews repeating some of the stuff in it.
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#8Has anyone read "The Impostor Handbook"[0]? What do you think of it? [0] https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/ Edit: I'm not connected to the book.
A HN discussion on the book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12351660
Re: Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
#9A New Science - Wolfram Maybe stretching outside the typical, but I have a weakness for cellular automata. Also, I've vowed never to buy another Oriely book or similar book ever. Online docs are free and stay up to date.
The book is basically a scam and panned. He talks about automata like it was new and he invented it. I strongly suggest you read the Amazon reviews.
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#10A List of Successes That Can Change the World: Essays Dedicated to Philip Wadler on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday