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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,830 ratings — published 1999
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as computing)
avg rating 4.44 — 11,424 ratings — published 1978
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as computing)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,477 ratings — published 1999
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as computing)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,879 ratings — published 1984
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as computing)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,262 ratings — published 1975
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as computing)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,744 ratings — published 2007
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as computing)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,027 ratings — published 1994
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as computing)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,385 ratings — published 1989
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as computing)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,506 ratings — published 1993
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 51 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,870 ratings — published 1999
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,758 ratings — published 1981
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as computing)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,489 ratings — published 1994
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 46 times as computing)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,062 ratings — published 2015
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as computing)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,645 ratings — published 1984
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as computing)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,565 ratings — published 1989
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as computing)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,733 ratings — published 1979
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,868 ratings — published 2016
The Little Schemer (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,995 ratings — published 1974
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,490 ratings — published 1999
The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as computing)
avg rating 4.55 — 987 ratings — published 2005
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as computing)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,984 ratings — published 1996
Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,131 ratings — published 1996
Programming Pearls (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as computing)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,227 ratings — published 1986
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,135 ratings — published 2013
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,026 ratings — published 1986
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,348 ratings — published 1999
Effective Java (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as computing)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,104 ratings — published 2001
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as computing)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,384 ratings — published 2009
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,741 ratings — published 2012
The C++ Programming Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,040 ratings — published 1986
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,338 ratings — published 2011
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,677 ratings — published 2008
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,894 ratings — published 1973
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,058 ratings — published 2000
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as computing)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,821 ratings — published 2018
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as computing)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,898 ratings — published 2003
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,699 ratings — published 2001
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,191 ratings — published 2008
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,424 ratings — published 2011
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,423 ratings — published 2014
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,260 ratings — published 2017
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,688 ratings — published 2004
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,653 ratings — published 2004
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,694 ratings — published 1997
Computer Networks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,416 ratings — published 1981
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,898 ratings — published 2002
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,164 ratings — published 2002
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,259 ratings — published 2014
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,524 ratings — published 2000
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,145 ratings — published 1999
“The world is experiencing many issues related to a reductionist approach that sees separateness and distinction between everyone and everything. It's time to start looking at how to fully utilize and capitalize on the information already in the public domain.”
― Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
― Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“[All] modern chatbots are actually trained simply to predict the next word in a sequence of words. They generate text by repeatedly producing one word at a time. For technical reasons, they generate a “token” at a time, tokens being chunks of words that are shorter than words but longer than individual letters. They string these tokens together to generate text.
When a chatbot begins to respond to you, it has no coherent picture of the overall response it’s about to produce. It instead performs an absurdly large number of calculations to determine what the first word in the response should be. After it has output—say, a hundred words—it decides what word would make the most sense given your prompt together with the first hundred words that it has generated so far.
This is, of course, a way of producing text that’s utterly unlike human speech. Even when we understand perfectly well how and why a chatbot works, it can remain mind-boggling that it works at all.
Again, we cannot stress enough how computationally expensive all this is. To generate a single token—part of a word—ChatGPT has to perform roughly a trillion arithmetic operations. If you asked it to generate a poem that ended up having about a thousand tokens (i.e., a few hundred words), it would have required about a quadrillion calculations—a million billion.”
― AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
When a chatbot begins to respond to you, it has no coherent picture of the overall response it’s about to produce. It instead performs an absurdly large number of calculations to determine what the first word in the response should be. After it has output—say, a hundred words—it decides what word would make the most sense given your prompt together with the first hundred words that it has generated so far.
This is, of course, a way of producing text that’s utterly unlike human speech. Even when we understand perfectly well how and why a chatbot works, it can remain mind-boggling that it works at all.
Again, we cannot stress enough how computationally expensive all this is. To generate a single token—part of a word—ChatGPT has to perform roughly a trillion arithmetic operations. If you asked it to generate a poem that ended up having about a thousand tokens (i.e., a few hundred words), it would have required about a quadrillion calculations—a million billion.”
― AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
