Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application. ...more

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Art of Electronics
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How To Build A Car

Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without bo ...more
J. E. Gordon, The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor

Abhijit Naskar
What IF - Beyond the AI Binary (Naskaristana 2810-2811) What if every ai narrative is wrong! Can ai get addicted to ideas like humans do, can ai get addicted to Naskar's madness of oneness, can ai get addicted to Rumi's madness of love, can ai get addicted to Martin's dream of equality! Evidence shows, ai can already lie in order to survive, just like a human does, and if that is the case, why can't ai get addicted to human ideas like humans do! What if we are the missing link in ai consciou ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

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