Finite and Infinite Machines
by Marvin Lee Minsky
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Programming, and Technology.
Man has within a single generation found himself sharing the world with a strange new species: the computers and computerlike machines. Neither history, nor philosophy, nor common sense will tell us how these machines will affect us, for they do not do "work" as did machines of the Industrial Revolution. Instead of dealing with materials...
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Why recommended
Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Programming, and Technology.
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Alan Kay
“It is actually a 'math book' — with lots of ideas, theorems, proofs, etc., — but presented in the friendliest way imaginable by a great mind.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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