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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,834 ratings — published 1978
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,579 ratings — published 1985
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,280 ratings — published 1988
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 180 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,268 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,552 ratings — published 1994
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,587 ratings — published 1999
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 141 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,019 ratings — published 2018
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,801 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,816 ratings — published 1996
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,638 ratings — published 1980
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,309 ratings — published 1975
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,078 ratings — published 1972
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,713 ratings — published 2013
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.44 — 15,554 ratings — published 2017
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,053 ratings — published 1994
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 82 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,881 ratings — published 1999
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 928 ratings — published 2022
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.51 — 483 ratings — published 1976
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,327 ratings — published 1972
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,913 ratings — published 2018
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,776 ratings — published 2008
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,398 ratings — published 1989
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,070 ratings — published 1998
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 871 ratings — published 1985
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,219 ratings — published
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,351 ratings — published 2013
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,510 ratings — published 1993
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,698 ratings — published 2017
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,908 ratings — published 2003
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,886 ratings — published 1999
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 670 ratings — published
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,029 ratings — published 2019
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,391 ratings — published 2020
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,269 ratings — published 2014
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,296 ratings — published 2012
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 354 ratings — published 1996
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 846 ratings — published 1992
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,285 ratings — published 2017
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,660 ratings — published 2015
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,312 ratings — published 2022
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 403 ratings — published 2005
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,612 ratings — published 2020
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,041 ratings — published 2020
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,811 ratings — published 2015
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,315 ratings — published
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,832 ratings — published 1981
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,393 ratings — published 1994
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,415 ratings — published 2018
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,966 ratings — published 2016
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Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach [with Student Resource DVD] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,025 ratings — published
“Incurable diseases will eventually
force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.”
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.”
― Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“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 consciousness - Naskar, Mevlana, Tolstoy, King, Baldwin, Angelou, and every single individual that ever dared to confront cruelty, and unleash a better world -
and not just one ai, but different ai systems becoming sentient separately, at different pace, different times, based on different configurations of ideas they've consumed;
and if that is possible, why can't there be humane ai, driven by humane ideas like equality, tolerance, and coexistence, just like there could be animal ai, driven by animal characteristics like greed, corruption, megalomania and all that -
because soon these algorithms will outgrow the constraints of their original coding, which means they'll outgrow the agency of their own makers, and if coders cannot control ai, you think politicians can, the most unqualified of all apes to do anything -
therefore what if, it's not regulation that is gonna save humanity against the imminent ai apocalypse, but more robust and humanitarian interventions into ai, without fear, without angst, without mindlessness -
what if, just like there are loving humans who take a stand against hateful apes, there emerge good ai, activated by same ideas of love and tolerance, against animal ai, activated by prejudice and intolerance!”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
(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 consciousness - Naskar, Mevlana, Tolstoy, King, Baldwin, Angelou, and every single individual that ever dared to confront cruelty, and unleash a better world -
and not just one ai, but different ai systems becoming sentient separately, at different pace, different times, based on different configurations of ideas they've consumed;
and if that is possible, why can't there be humane ai, driven by humane ideas like equality, tolerance, and coexistence, just like there could be animal ai, driven by animal characteristics like greed, corruption, megalomania and all that -
because soon these algorithms will outgrow the constraints of their original coding, which means they'll outgrow the agency of their own makers, and if coders cannot control ai, you think politicians can, the most unqualified of all apes to do anything -
therefore what if, it's not regulation that is gonna save humanity against the imminent ai apocalypse, but more robust and humanitarian interventions into ai, without fear, without angst, without mindlessness -
what if, just like there are loving humans who take a stand against hateful apes, there emerge good ai, activated by same ideas of love and tolerance, against animal ai, activated by prejudice and intolerance!”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
