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24 alternatives to Secrets of the Quantum Universe
The SysAdmin's guide to the Universe.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Irreverent overview of ideas in math, CS & philosophy
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Life and work of two of our most eminent physicists
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Hi HN! My name's Robert Escriva. I got my PhD from Cornell's Computer Science department back in 2017. And three years ago I had a psychotic episode that irreversibly shook up my world. Since then I've been applying a skill I learned in grad school---namely, debugging distributed and complex systems---to my own mind. What I've found I've put into a [book (pdf)](https://rescrv.net/engineering-schizophrenia.pdf) on engineering, my particular schizophrenic delusions, and how people who suffer as I once did can find a way through the fog to the other side. This is not a healing…
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
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Code▲76The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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Lean and lucid descriptions of modern physics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I recently launched a podcast called The Multiverse Employee Handbook, where I mix light-hearted humor with some science fiction and a sprinkle of quantum physics. It’s set in a surreal corporate universe where office politics, interdimensional HR dilemmas, and wormhole deliveries are all part of the daily grind. Each narrative episode explores a different aspect of this multiverse, like quantum entanglement in the mailroom or cosmic deadlines. It’s definitely more on the fun and absurd side of things, but I try to weave in real science concepts (in the simplest way possible, of…
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A less-than-factual guide to our amazing world
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Nature of Code▲107Learn to program computer simulations of natural systems
2017 · natureofcode.com · its alternatives →
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Introduction to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency technologies
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A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · priceonomics.com · its alternatives →
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The Supermen▲66Seymour Cray + technical wizards behind the supercomputer
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The astounding interconnectedness of the universe
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Exploration of the Nature and Progress of Knowledge
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hey folks! My book Real-World Cryptography was just released and is now shipping. I've been working on this thing for the last two years and a half, and the goal was to give a good overview of everything that can be classified as "real-world" about crypto. You'll find all the basics in the first half of the book, and the second half contains chapters on TLS, noise, PAKEs, post-quantum cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, MPC, cryptocurrencies, FHE, etc. So it's a good pick if you're learning, but also if you've been in the field for a while and want an intro to some subfield you're…
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An explanation of how computers will reach consciousness
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The official history of the visionary British software house
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Stephen Wolfram's new book on the Wolfram Language
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