Tag: books
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Annoyed with @amazon and their b0rked business model
Last week I was sent a $50 Amazon.com gift voucher: a very pleasant surprise. I immediately loaded the voucher into my Amazon.com account (I had one of these long before I got an amazon.co.uk account) and then thought about what books I’d like to order – picked a couple and thought “that’s nice”. Despite the…
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What a brilliant book
Just over three hours ago I started reading Richard Feynman‘s QED – The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Penguin Press Science): and now, 110 pages later, I am stunned at its brilliance. If you are any sort of physics undergraduate you must read it. Similarly, if I was teaching ‘A’ level physics I would…
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I have another blog
Decided I wanted to write about the books I read, even if they are not (computer) science related – so Not Computer Science Related
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Is all other science “unpopular” then?
The great British distaste for science goes on. In a central London bookshop today I noticed that the only science books on sale were the ones badged as “popular science”: bad luck if you wanted something more in depth. Related articles Best Science Books 2010: Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books [Confessions of a…
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The book I want to write
The Design of the Unix Operating System is one of the best computing books I have read in a long time. It is clear and easy to understand. (It’s also very cheap if you buy a second hand edition). But it is more than that too: as soon as you begin reading it you realise…
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Books on discrete mathematics for computing
My maths ‘A’ level is a long time ago (I actually did a further year of maths – albeit “maths for engineers” and so very cookbook like – at University) and, to be honest, I have never worked in a job where much beyond competent arithmetic has been required, so last year, when I started…