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onion2k · Feb 16, 2015
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
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onion2k · Dec 23, 2015
"Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability" It's a collection of New Scientist essays based around probability. Well worth reading, and because it's just short essays it's easy to pick up for just a few minutes at a time.
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onion2k · Dec 28, 2022
"Out of the Software Crisis" by Baldur Bjarnason.
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onion2k · Sep 2, 2014
It's fantastic. I'm 1/4 through at the moment and I can honestly say it lives up to it's title.
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