I’ve been hoodwinked too many times by well-reviewed pop-sci books which I later discovered to be hated by the actual scientists who do the work. Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku was the final straw 😆
Cheers!
I’ve been hoodwinked too many times by well-reviewed pop-sci books which I later discovered to be hated by the actual scientists who do the work. Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku was the final straw 😆
Cheers!
I’m a senior computer programmer/developer, so I have to say: not what I know about.
Two books I found really useful at the time:
The Little LISPer by Daniel P Friedman
Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
Both are rather niche, but helped me understand general computing and design concepts.
Trusting trust is pretty good, if you want to develop paranoia.
It’s a solved problem now: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/