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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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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator cover

4. Practical Astronomy with your Calculator

by Peter Duffett-Smith

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Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale cover

5. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

by Boris Cherny

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Reality Is What You Can Get Away With cover

6. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

by Robert Anton Wilson

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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 Jacob Grimm, Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke, Georg Ludwig Von Maurer

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

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

by Judith Tarutz

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

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

by Maryanne Wolf

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

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

by Emmanuel Ameisen

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Building Machine Learning Powered Applications cover

12. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

13. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Predictive modeling: Striking a balance between accuracy and interpretability cover

14. Predictive modeling: Striking a balance between accuracy and interpretability

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15. 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

16. 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

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

by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

18. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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

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

by Binyamin Appelbaum

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

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

by Alan Weisman

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

21. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

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

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

22. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

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23. Blindsight (Firefall, 1)

by Peter Watts

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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25. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek cover

26. 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

27. 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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28. Abstract Algebra

by David S. Dummit, Richard M. Foote

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

Showing 1 - 37 of 37 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. Practical Astronomy with your Calculator

5. Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

6. Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

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

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

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

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

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

12. Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

13. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

14. Predictive modeling: Striking a balance between accuracy and interpretability

15. The Klutz Book of Knots

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

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

18. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

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

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

21. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

22. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

23. Blindsight (Firefall, 1)

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

25. Purely Functional Data Structures

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

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

28. Abstract Algebra

29. White Bread

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

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

34. Handbook to Higher Consciousness

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

36. The Black God's Drums

37. Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life!