books

Kurt vonnegut

http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411408

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-100-books-part-one/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443028

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/10/12/1950233/ask-slashdot-what-books-have-had-a-significant-impact-on-your-life

to read

[non-fiction to read]

Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups :: D Coyle

Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow :: Spodek

Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change :: Fournier

Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You :: Zhou

Disappearing spoon

War of art

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre :: Keith Johnstone

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World :: Tracy Kidder

Hidden Persuaders :: Packard

Manufacturing consent :: Chomsky; see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

propaganda :: bernays

canticle for leibowitz :: miller

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck :: C Heath

Thinking fast and slow :: d kahneman

Systems architecting of Organizations :: Rechtin

Knowing-Doing Gap

Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue (Guilford Family Therapy) :: Edwin H. Friedman // recommended by Mark T

cognitive systematization : rescher

Graph Algorithms in the language of Linear Algebra :: J Kepner, J Gilbert

The Art of Doing Science & Engineering :: Richard Hamming

Don't Make Me Think :: Steve Krug

Five Love Languages :: Gary Chapman

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do :: Studs Terkel

The Secret Sentry :: M Aid

light on life : iyengar

yoga sutras : patanjali

The Life of the Cosmos :: Lee Smolin

My secret garden :: Nancy Friday

[astronaut biography] :: Mike Mullane

Influence :: R Cialdini

NLP :: R Bandler and J Grinder

Frogs into Princes :: R Bandler and J Grinder

Freedom of the Hills ::

Getting To Yes :: Roger Patton

Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer :: Charles J. Murray

Cialdini, R. B. (2009). Influence: science and practice (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education

You can negotiate anything :: herb Cohen

Hans Christian Andersen: the complete fairy tales and stories translated from the Danish :: Eric Christian Haugaard

Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet :: David Kahn

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed :: Ben Rich

Kelly: More Than My Share of it All :: Kelly Johnson // skunkworks, autobiography

A guide to developing life's most important skill, Happiness :: Matthieu Ricard

The Power of Now

Guide to Rational Living :: Albert Ellis

Feeling Good Handbook :: David D. Burns

Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food :: Jeff Potter

Science of Good Cooking :: cooks

Patterns for Parallel Programming :: Mattson

Designing and Building Parallel Programs :: Foster // looks generally useful; multiple scientific problems overviewed for examples

Writing Scientific Software :: Suely Oliveira, David Edward Stewart

Accuracy and Reliability in Scientific Computing :: Bo Einarsson

Performance Optimization of Numerically Intensive Codes :: Stefan Goedecker, Adolfy Hoisie

Cache and Interconnect Architectures in Multiprocessors :: Dubois and Thakkar [TK7895 M4 C33 1990 @ UMBC] // includes "critique of trace-driven simulation for shared-memory multiprocessors" :: P Bitar

Field Programmable Gate Arrays :: Oldfield and Dorf [TK 7895 G36 O43 1995 @ UMBC] // looks very useful - includes state machines and boolean logic

Microprocessors: From assembly language to C :: Reese [TK7895 M5 R44 2005 @ UMBC] // looks useful

Mode one :: Alan Roger Currie

Crypto :: Steven Levy

On fact and fraud :: goodstein

The story the soldiers wouldn't tell :: lowry

For the President's Eyes only ::

Asimov on Physics :: Asimov

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master :: Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

three models for description of language :: Noam Chomsky

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code :: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box :: Arbinger Institute

life of the cosmos :: L Smolin

cathedral and the bazaar :: Eric Steven Raymond

Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems :: Jef Raskin (2000)

Homesteading the Noosphere :: Eric Steven Raymond

take back your government :: Robert Heinlien

mean gene

treatise on probability :: Keynes

science: the endless frontier :: Bush

Machu My Picchu :: Iris Bahr

Advances in Genetic Programming :: Kinnear

Artificial Intelligence :: G Luger

Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp :: D. Tatar

Models of Disorder :: Ziman

http://www.htdp.org/

How to Design Programs

[Free online text]

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software :: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides [as of June 2012, I don't know enough Object oriented programming to comprehend]

partial [have read]

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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History :: Florence Williams // CD 6 of 8

How to be compassionate :: Dalai Lama (page 91)

a unified theory of happiness :: Andrea Polard (page 53)

a course in happiness :: Mardi Horowitz (page 29)

Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks Paperback :: Mark Buchanan // written for a non-math non-physics audience. Doesn't explain mathematical background. No use of keywords like "percolation theory"

Happiness :: Joan Chittister (page 43)

how pleasure works :: Paul Bloom (page 18)

graph-based knowledge representation :: Michel Chein

Source of Magic: Piers Anthony

Quantum Mechanics, volume 3 :: Landau and Lifshitz (page 8) // doesn't use Dirac notation. Too old to be useful

Quantum Mechanics, volume 1 :: Messiah (page 12) // good since it's what Dr Parris references

An Introduction to Optimization :: E. K. P. Chong and S. H. Zak (page 5) // doesn't reference simulated annealing

Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing :: L. Davis (page 11) // Only the introduction was useful for an overview

How to write parallel programs :: Nicholas Carriero, David Hillel Gelernter (page 18) [QA76.642 C37 1990 @ UMBC] // written prior to MPI but good overview of parallel paradigms. Concise and well written.

An Introduction to Parallel Programming :: Chandy and Tayler (page 12) [QA76.642 C47 1992 @ UMBC] // more formal than "how to write parallel programs." More theoretical and computer science-oriented. Pre-MPI

Be ready when the shit goes: down a survival guide to the apocalypse :: forrest griffin (page 26)

The Puzzle Palace :: Bamford (page 80) // very good, useful level of insight

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers :: John MacCormick (page 123) // useful

selfish gene :: Richard Dawkins (page 40) // useful

The Shadow Factory :: Bamford (page 99)

CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception :: H. K. Melton and R Wallace (page 69)

Gravity's Rainbow :: Thomas Pynchon (page 20) // quit because it wasn't readable

asimov on numbers :: asimov (page 75) // collection of essays

programming languages :: Tucker and Noonan (page 49)

design of compilers :: Lemone

fundamentals of compilers :: Lemone

Articulate voice :: Wells

There's something about Godel :: Berto (page 67) // didn't sustain my interest

System design with system C :: Grotker and Liao and Martin and Swan

Improving your story telling :: Lipman (page 43) // useful

methods of theoretical physics :: Morse and Feshbach [MST: QC 20.M6 pt.1 c.2]

a brief history of time :: stephen hawking

Godel, Escher, Bach

Evolutionary Computing :: D. B. Fogel (page 84 of 259)

Roving Mind :: Isaac Asimov (page 162 of 348)

Mating mind :: G. Miller [page 142 of 433 in the (2000) edition // useful, good read

The Art of Conversation :: Milton Wright (1937) // dated but useful

black swan :: n taleb (48 of 310) // not as good as fooled by randomness

voice and diction :: J. Eisenson (107 of 403)

Olaf Stapledon: A man divided :: Fiedler

thinking mathematically :: Mason, Burton, Stacey (MU ELLIS)

more is different :: Phlip Anderson (On MERLIN) // collection of essays

anderson localization and its ramifications :: Brandes Ketteman MERLIN

the fractal geometry of nature :: Mandelbrot MST: QA 447.M357

an introduction to invariant embedding :: Bellman and Wing 1975 MST depository: QA 431.B34

Isaac Asimov: the complete stories, volume 2 :: Asimov (page 109)

Out of their minds: the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists :: Dennis Elliott Shasha, Cathy A. Lazere

history of physics :: asimov (page 47) // excellent, useful

tips on physics :: feynman

Have Read

comedy

I Am A Pole (And So Can You!) :: S. Colbert

I'll Mature When I'm Dead :: Dave Barry // funny but occasionally depressing insights

Passive Aggressive Notes :: Kerry Miller // good reasons not to have a room mate

Drive Like Crazy :: P. J. O'Rouke // somewhat funny, conservative slant

I Suck at Girls :: Justin Halpern // growing up as a neuro-typical

non-fiction have read

What to Do When You are screwed :: Rands

The Female Brain: Louann Brizendine

Lincoln: gore vidal (feb 2014, 7 days, 657 pages)

pasteur's quadrant :: Donald E. Stokes

Babylon by bus ::

Internet Census 2012 :: Anonymouse

Little bets :: Peter Sims // simulated annealing for the business crowd. Book doesn't discuss failure, random chance, or persistance. Focusing on positive black swans (success stories) overshadows the observation that effort doesn't necessarily result in success

Without conscious :: Robert Hare // good review of psychopathy

Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood :: James Gleick // excellent summary of stuff I knew; interesting

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions :: Dan Ariely // very good, useful, insightful

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different :: Karen Blumenthal // light read

I.M. Pei: Architect of Time, Place and Purpose :: Jill Rubalcaba // light read

politics and the English language :: George Orwell 1946

Nerd Handbook, The :: Rands

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools :: Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman

Development Abstraction Layer, The :: Joel Spolsky

Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? :: Bertrand Russell

In the Beginning was the Command Line :: Neal Stephenson // excellent

How To Become A Hacker :: Eric Steven Raymond // very good

Great Hackers :: Paul Graham // very good

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years :: Peter Norvig // good

Tragedy of the Commons :: G Hardin

Fooled by Randomness :: N. Taleb // excellent; changed how I think and act

Straight talk no chaser :: Steve Harvey // not very good

Act like a lady, think like a man :: Steve Harvey // not very good

Artificial Intelligence: A Beginner's Guide :: Blay Whitby // excellent

Steven Weinberg on scientific revolutions :: Steven Weinberg

Edsger Dijkstra on universities :: Edsger Dijkstra

Asperger Meets Girl : Happy Endings for Asperger Boys :: Jonathan Griffiths // useful in that I'm not an isolated case

continuous improvement in the science classroom (second edition) :: Jeffrey Burgard

In the Land of Invisible Women : A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom :: Qanta Ahmed // depressing biography

To boldly go: a practical guide for scientists :: Peter s. fiske

the first three minutes :: Steven weinberg // very good

elegant universe :: brian greene http://books.google.com/books?id=FH3o-WVDECwC

Breaking the spell: religion as a natural phenomenon :: Daniel Clement Dennett http://books.google.com/books?id=yWtwDDqR61QC // excellent, changed how I think

The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering – Anniversary Edition :: Fredrick P. Brooks // very good

Short History of Nearly Everything :: Bill Bryson // very good

ACM Turing Lecture 1972, EWD340; The Humble Programmer :: Edsger W. Dijkstra

EWD1300, The Notational Conventions I Adopted, and Why :: Edsger W. Dijkstra

EWD648, Why is software so expensive? :: Edsger W. Dijkstra

biography have read

Last of the blue water hunters :: Carlos Eyles, 20160827

waiter rant :: Steve Dublanica // very good, entertaining

Journal of Best Practices :: David Finch // being a selfish asshole + Asberger's and being married to a hot neurotypical

Pimp: the story of my life :: Iceberg Slim // insightful, interesting

losing my virginity :: richard branson // very good biography, entertaining

What do YOU care what other people think? : further adventures of a curious character :: Richard P. Feynman // very good

Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography :: Mary-Lou Weisman // depressing biography

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) :: Richard P. Feynman // very good

my life as a quant :: Emanuel Derman // useful in that I realized I don't want to participate in that life

avoid boring people :: James Watson // good

bruce lee between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do :: Jesse Glover (1976) // excellent,

Bruce Lee: Fighting spirit :: Bruce Thomas

The Diary of Anne Frank :: Anne Frank

science fiction have read

citizen of the galaxy :: Robert A. Heinlein // audio book, 202009xx

necromancer :: William Gibson // audio book, 202009xx

the graveyard book :: Neil Gaiman

Sirius :: Olaf Stapledon

odd john :: Olaf Stapledon

star maker :: Olaf Stapledon

Ender's game :: Orson Scott Card

Ender's Shadow :: Orson Scott Card

Flatland :: Edwin A Abbott // very good, shaped how I think

brave new world :: A. Huxley

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy :: Douglas Adams // very good

day of the triffids :: John Wyndham // good

2BR02B :: Kurt Vonnegut

Manna :: Marshall Brain

Nightfall :: Isaac Asimov

Foundation :: Isaac Asimov

The Last Question:: asimov

Pebble in the sky :: Asimov

Youth :: Isaac Asimov

Currents of Space :: Isaac Asimov

End of Eternity :: Isaac Asimov

Naken Sun :: Isaac Asimov

Profession :: Isaac Asimov // initially I found the conclusion funny; then I disagreed with the conclusion that rare individuals are capable of creative thought

Dune :: Frank Herbert // very good

Dune Messiah :: Frank Herbert

Children of Dune :: Frank Herbert

God Emperor of Dune :: Frank Herbert

Sandworms of Dune :: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson // read in one sitting (9 hours straight) 20130302

2001 :: A. C. Clarke

2010 :: A. C. Clarke

3001 :: A. C. Clarke

Rendezvous with Rama :: A. C. clarke

Rama II :: A. C. Clarke and Gentry Lee

Childhood's End :: Arthur C. Clarke

City and the Stars :: Arthur C. Clarke

songs of distant earth :: Arthur C. Clarke

Variable Man :: Philip K Dick

Beyond Lies the Wub :: Philip K Dick

Martian Time-slip :: Philip K Dick

Second Variety :: Philip K Dick

Defenders :: Philip K Dick

I will fear no evil :: Robert Heinlein

Revolt in 2100 :: Robert Heinlein

Methuselah's Children :: Robert Heinlein

Job: A comedy of Justice :: Robert Heinlein

Star Beast, The :: Robert Heinlein

The Moon is a harsh mistress :: Robert Heinlein

Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, the :: Robert Heinlein

Job: a comedy of Justice :: Robert Heinlein

puppet masters :: Robert Heinlein

citizen of the galaxy :: Robert Heinlein

the door into summer :: Robert Heinlein

the puppet masters :: Robert Heinlein

Stranger in a strange land :: Robert Heinlein

Time Enough for love :: Robert Heinlein

Green Hills of Earth :: Robert Heinlein

Starship Troopers :: Robert Heinlein [June 2012]

Variable Star :: Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson [June 2012]

Have Space Suit—Will Travel :: Robert Heinlein

Snow Crash :: Neal Stephenson

Neverwhere :: Neil Gaiman

American Gods :: Neil Gaiman

Little Brother :: Cory Doctorow

Permutation City :: Greg Egan

fiction

The Magician of Lhasa :: David Michie; 20160825

Life according to Garp // very good

Five Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides) :: Matthew Inman // very good

World War Z :: Max Brooks

1984 :: George Orwell

Catcher in the rye :: J. D. Salinger

Jonathan Livingston Seagull :: Richard Bach // excellent

Lolita :: V. Nabokov

Kafka on the Shore :: Haruki Murakami

bluebeard :: Vonnegut

The Illiad :: Homer

catch-22 :: J. Heller

on the road :: J. Kerouac

to kill a mocking bird :: Harper Lee

The Holy bible // useful

Romeo and Juliet

one flew over the cuckoo's nest :: Ken Kesey

Breakfast of Champions :: K. Vonnegut

animal farm :: george Orwell

lord of the flies :: W. Golding

charlotte's web :: E. B. White

heart of darkness :: J. Conrad

wind in the willows :: Kenneth grahame

the stand :: Stephen King

Fahrenheit 451 :: Ray Bradbury // very good

naked lunch :: William S. Burroughs

the hunt for red october :: Tom Clancy

It :: Stephen King

Green mile :: Stephen King

Where the Wild Things Are :: Maurice Sendak

Shogun :: James Clavell

The Poky Little Puppy :: J. S. Lowrey

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