xorn finished reading The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where …
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xorn started reading Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the future of global warfare
In 2014, …
xorn rated Ancillary Justice: 5 stars
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was …
xorn rated C Concurrency in Action: 5 stars
xorn rated The Alchemy of Us: 3 stars
The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez
In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic …
xorn rated Hello World: 4 stars
Hello World by Hannah Fry
"Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that …
xorn rated The House in the Cerulean Sea: 5 stars
xorn rated Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: 5 stars
xorn rated Mathematics for Human Flourishing: 5 stars
xorn rated The Pragmatic Programmer: 4 stars
The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master examines the core programming process: taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code …
xorn rated A Psalm for the Wild-Built: 5 stars
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
xorn rated Galaxy, and the Ground Within: 5 stars
Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going …
xorn rated Fooled by randomness: 3 stars
Fooled by randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what …
xorn rated Money Formula: 4 stars
Paul Wilmott, David Orrell: Money Formula (2017, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John)
Money Formula by Paul Wilmott, David Orrell
"The book is divided into two main parts. The first dips into the history of quantitative finance and explains its …