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Seeing my book Crafting Interpreters on this list is really really gratifying. :)
My hope is that you make a similar book on databases. :) Crafting Interpreters is one of my favorite technical books ever and serves as a masterclass is technical communication. Thank you!!!
Seeing my book Crafting Interpreters on this list is really really gratifying. :)
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Great job, loved the book. Is there a plan for another one, perhaps this time focusing on compilers?
People have definitely asked for that. I don't think I'd be the best person to write a traditional compiler book. Most of my language experience is in front ends and interpreters. Maybe if I get more back end experience. But, also, I think that topic is fairly well covered by Engineering a Compiler. I have thought about writing something around type checking. That aspect of compilers feels a little underserved to me.…
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Definitely! I have both the Princeton Companion to Mathematics and Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics and both are well worth the money. One of the difficulties in studying the breadth of mathematics is that the huge amount of jargon/notation of the different branches/models/tools all seem complex/unrelated and hence a single volume where you can jump back and forth between different views is very much necess…
Definitely unnecessary for them to be a part of every educated person’s library. This is a pretty absurd viewpoint. The reality is that there are loads of educated people who contribute vast amounts to the world without even the most passing familiarity with “modern math”. I also don’t agree with the sentiment of the rest of the post, sorry. If someone is casually or recreationally interested in math, building a comp…
These books are not textbooks but Companions thus giving one history, development, concepts, ideas etc. of Mathematics. This is very similar to Encyclopedias/Dictionaries that every family generally has in its "personal library" but just more detailed w.r.t. Mathematics.
By "comprehensive" i meant the books are comprehensive and not that one has to study every bit of it. Pick and choose topics/terminologies as you come across them at whatever level you want. You are adding to your education and not necessarily trying to become a "Mathematician". Every "educated person" (STEM or not) with curiosity to understand more about the World (and all-pervasive technologies in particular) has to have some idea of "Modern Maths" at some level. This is why you have so many "popular science and mathematics" books. While these companion books are not "popular maths" books they make a very good reference for when one wants more breadth and depth but not necessarily a full-blown textbook. These are also great "motivators" for students by sparking their curiosity (and perhaps inspire some to become Mathematicians)) since they catalog so much within one pair of covers.
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s/used GPT/used Google history rhymes
Those are not at all the same thing. You used a search engine to find something else which you’d then cite as the source of the information. No one would take your research seriously if you cited Google Search as the source. I don’t understand if people trying to equate the two are doing so in bad faith to confuse everyone or are genuinely incapable of understanding the difference. Either reason is quite worrisome fo…
It's worth remembering though that it all drops down to trust anyway. What source do you consider trustworthy? Journalists write false stuff all the time (you may know some specific people you can trust), so that leaves research papers. Reliability of data there is higher than from a random sample on the web, but it is very far from something I would trust blindly.
Any human compiling data from different sources can also make a mistake. Can fail to use reason when it should be clear that the data is not consistent. I don't think there's any doubt that in some time, such error rate will be lower for large models than it is for humans.
A site similar to this I enjoy is Reddit Reads[1]. It displays the top books for most subreddits. A fun way to learn about a niche, hobby or internet culture is seeing what that group reads. [1] https://www.redditreads.com/
I may have browsed this for 2 hours during a meeting this morning. I also may have added 20 new books to my wishlist
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I may have browsed this for 2 hours during a meeting this morning. I also may have added 20 new books to my wishlist
What subreddits did you look through?
Most attention paid to:
r/askhistorians
r/cyberpunk
r/philosophy
r/religion
r/technology