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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 30, 2019 - Jan 6, 2020

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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything cover

1. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

by B. J. Fogg

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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more cover

2. Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more

by Maxim Lapan

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Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust cover

3. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

by Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis

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Reality Is What You Can Get Away With cover

4. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

by Robert Anton Wilson

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An Introduction to Mineral Sciences cover

5. An Introduction to Mineral Sciences

by A. Putnis

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Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale cover

6. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

by Boris Cherny

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True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier cover

7. True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

by Vernor Vinge

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

8. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov

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Building Machine Learning Powered Applications cover

9. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

by Emmanuel Ameisen

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Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product cover

10. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product

by Emmanuel Ameisen

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Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers (Hewlett-Packard Press) cover

11. Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers (Hewlett-Packard Press)

by Judith Tarutz

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12. The Klutz Book of Knots

by John Cassidy

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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are cover

13. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World cover

14. Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World

by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World cover

15. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

by Maryanne Wolf

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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society cover

16. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

17. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? cover

18. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

19. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner

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20. Blindsight (Firefall)

by Peter Watts

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

21. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek cover

22. The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

by Andrea Marcolongo

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Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow cover

23. Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow

by Sandy Skotnicki, Christopher Shulgan

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24. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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25. Abstract Algebra, 3rd Edition

by David S. Dummit

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26. White Bread

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

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The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream cover

27. The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream

by Paulo Coelho

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Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering) cover

28. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

by Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White

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29. Superforecasting

by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner, Santiago Foz (argentino)

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 30, 2019 - Jan 6, 2020

Showing 1 - 38 of 38 books

1. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

2. Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On: Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more

3. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

4. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

5. An Introduction to Mineral Sciences

6. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

7. True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

8. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

9. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

10. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going from Idea to Product

11. Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers (Hewlett-Packard Press)

12. The Klutz Book of Knots

13. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

14. Heteroptera: The Beautiful and the Other, or Images of a Mutating World

15. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

16. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

17. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

18. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

19. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

20. Blindsight (Firefall)

21. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

22. The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

23. Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow

24. Purely Functional Data Structures

25. Abstract Algebra, 3rd Edition

26. White Bread

27. The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream

28. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

29. Superforecasting

30. Elemental Design Patterns

31. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

32. How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

33. Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

34. The Laws of an Eruv; A comprehensive review of the laws of Eruvin and their practical applications

35. The Black God's Drums

36. Data Science in Production: Building Scalable Model Pipelines with Python

37. Handbook to Higher Consciousness

38. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning