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40,000 HackerNews book recommendations identified using NLP and deep learning

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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

Marc Reisner

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Calculus: Early Transcendentals

James Stewart , Daniel K. Clegg, et al.

4.2 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

James Suzman

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Calculus

James Stewart

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

Barbara Oakley PhD

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

David Deutsch, Walter Dixon, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Carl Jung, James Cameron Stewart, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker, Arthur Morey, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Simple Techniques to Instantly Overcome Depression, Relieve Anxiety, and Rewire Your Brain

Olivia Telford

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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uniqueidonApr 21, 2021

It's been a while since I read the The God Delusion but I'm pretty sure he criticized Islam in it. Since then he veered into social media territory, delivering cringe-worthy 'burns' and 'hot-takes' on all sorts of clickbait news items. It's hard for me to reconcile that the same man who wrote The Selfish Gene, which I love, is the guy ranting on Twitter like a drunk FB grandpa.

brailsafeonJune 17, 2021

Who'd assume that though? Reading through a book does not give me a robust understanding of a subject. If that were true, why would people go to school? I read for a perspective and some entertainment, and maybe retaining some details. I read the God Delusion, but I wouldn't presume to know all that much about the intricacies of evolutionary biology. I have at most a cursory understanding of how natural selection works, and a few examples to go on that I didn't know about previously. Why would I care to know everything about "American air doctrine in WWII" when I hadn't previously paid the subject any thought at any level?
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