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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 17,424 ratings — published 2011
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 4,879 ratings — published 1984
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,744 ratings — published 2007
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,831 ratings — published 1999
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 24,478 ratings — published 1999
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,870 ratings — published 2016
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 15,262 ratings — published 1975
Thinking in Java (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,215 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,385 ratings — published 1989
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 11,424 ratings — published 1978
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 3 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,870 ratings — published 1999
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 6,534 ratings — published 2015
Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics)
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avg rating 3.83 — 70 ratings — published 2006
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,590 ratings — published 2014
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 8,772 ratings — published 1983
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,694 ratings — published 1997
Effective Java (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 8,104 ratings — published 2001
The Little Schemer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,995 ratings — published 1974
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 12,027 ratings — published 1994
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.30 — 654 ratings — published 2000
Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals (5th Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as informatics)
avg rating 3.17 — 60 ratings — published 2012
The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 780 ratings — published 1999
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
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avg rating 4.59 — 2,362 ratings — published 2013
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,164 ratings — published 2002
Purely Functional Data Structures (Volume 0)
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avg rating 4.15 — 674 ratings — published 1996
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
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avg rating 4.69 — 11,063 ratings — published 2015
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 5,907 ratings — published 2021
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 12,166 ratings — published 2018
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 6,936 ratings — published 2008
Java Concurrency in Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 2,920 ratings — published 2005
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,273 ratings — published 2000
Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,720 ratings — published 1993
Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge: . (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 39 ratings — published 2011
Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.63 — 41 ratings — published 2007
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 59,271 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30,870 ratings — published 2016
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 29,491 ratings — published 1999
Operating System Concepts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,219 ratings — published 1985
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 923 ratings — published 1999
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.99 — 28,026 ratings — published 2017
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 43,152 ratings — published 2017
Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Volume 1: Foundations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 63 ratings — published 1986
C++ Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 998 ratings — published 1989
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,139 ratings — published 1993
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 9,980 ratings — published 1987
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,237 ratings — published 2007
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 9,506 ratings — published 1993
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 536 ratings — published 2013
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 8,677 ratings — published 2008
Head First JavaScript (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 388 ratings — published 2007
“Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism.
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
“Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data - i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. Of generalized interactivity abolishing particularized action. Of the interface which abolishes challenge, passion, and rivalry between peoples, ideas and individuals which was always the source of the finest energies.
It is difficult to find a remedy for our own sadness, because we are ourselves implicated in it. It is difficult to find a remedy for other people's sadness because we are prisoners of it.”
― Cool Memories
It is difficult to find a remedy for our own sadness, because we are ourselves implicated in it. It is difficult to find a remedy for other people's sadness because we are prisoners of it.”
― Cool Memories
