Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
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Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#12Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#13Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#14Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
There are embarassingly many cybernetics books this could refer to (particularly from the midcentury)...
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#15Some of the books on that list aren't readily available, because as cybernetics went out of style they went out of print.
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#16Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Are you talking about the 2nd edition of "Design for a Brain"? There are embarassingly many cybernetics books this could refer to (particularly from the midcentury)...
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
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#18Hey I just bought this book, at the back she gives a great suggested reading list, I encourage you to take a look and pick one that sparks your interest :).
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#19Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#20Hey I just bought this book, at the back she gives a great suggested reading list, I encourage you to take a look and pick one that sparks your interest :).
yes I have seen that but as said in question I am looking some mathy and programming of systems,if not that then something different according to the reader liked.