Jordi rated A Hacker's Mind: 4 stars
A Hacker's Mind by Bruce Schneier
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but …
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Jordi rated Careless People: 4 stars
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, …
Jordi rated New Foundations for Classical Mechanics: 5 stars
Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer …
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
— Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
Jordi rated Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: 5 stars
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN …
Jordi rated Geometric Algebra for Physicists: 5 stars
Jordi rated Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors: 4 stars
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building …
Jordi rated Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors: 5 stars
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building …
Jordi rated Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: 5 stars
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy …
Jordi rated Lord of the Flies: 4 stars
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century; Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a …
Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
The Eight by Katherine Neville
the eight. katherine neville
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea—“…reads like the retelling of a tale first …
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
This is an English translation of "La realtà non è come ci appare" originally written in Italian.
Jordi rated The Order of Time: 5 stars
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we …