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  • Bitwise

    A Life in Code

    An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we areBitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philosopher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Bitwise

    A Life in Code

    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we areBitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philosopher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

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    The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand ... Read more

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  • Weapons of Math Destruction

    How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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    $9.99 USD

  • Future Crimes

    Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

    by Marc Goodman ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you—and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than ever ... Read more

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  • The Master Algorithm

    How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

    **Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, ... Read more

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  • Hacker's Delight

    In Hacker’s Delight, Second Edition, Hank Warren once again compiles an irresistible collection of programming hacks: timesaving techniques, algorithms, and tricks that help programmers build more elegant and efficient software, while also gaining deeper insights into their craft. Warren’s hacks are eminently practical, but they’re also intrinsically interesting, and sometimes unexpected, much ... Read more

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  • Einstein

    The Life and Times

    by Ronald Clark ...
    First published in 1972, Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor. Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized ... Read more

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  • Life in Code

    A Personal History of Technology

    by Ellen Ullman ...
    The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman ... Read more

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  • The Bleeding Edge

    Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World

    by Bob Hughes ...
    Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better, more equal worlds, and still can.Academic and activist Bob Hughes puts flesh on the bones of the idea that 'another world is possible', using as evidence the technology that capitalism claims ... Read more

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  • I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It

    Stories from an Online Life

    **"Get off your phone and read Jess Kimball Leslie's funny book!"-- Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens LiveILove My Computer Because My Friends Live in it is a hilarious memoir of growing up in the early days of the Internet and celebrating technology's role in our lives.**Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess Kimball Leslie looked to the nascent ... Read more

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  • Scala for Machine Learning

    Are you curious about AI? All you need is a good understanding of the Scala programming language, a basic knowledge of statistics, a keen interest in Big Data processing, and this book! ... Read more

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