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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,770 ratings — published 1978
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,541 ratings — published 1985
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,449 ratings — published 1988
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 168 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.69 — 10,957 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,968 ratings — published 1994
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,397 ratings — published 1999
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 131 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,857 ratings — published 2018
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,683 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,738 ratings — published 1996
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,235 ratings — published 1975
The Art of Electronics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,627 ratings — published 1980
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,998 ratings — published 1972
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,469 ratings — published 2013
How To Build A Car (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.44 — 15,123 ratings — published 2017
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,009 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 — 8,860 ratings — published 1999
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 897 ratings — published 2022
Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.51 — 476 ratings — published 1976
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,063 ratings — published 1972
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,727 ratings — published 2018
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,369 ratings — published 1989
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 866 ratings — published 1985
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,798 ratings — published 2008
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,160 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 — 50,889 ratings — published 2013
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,504 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 — 10,574 ratings — published 2017
Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,059 ratings — published 1998
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,885 ratings — published 2003
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,966 ratings — published 2019
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,765 ratings — published 1999
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,328 ratings — published 2020
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,245 ratings — published 2014
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 664 ratings — published
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,128 ratings — published 2012
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (Mcgraw-hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 399 ratings — published 2005
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 353 ratings — published 1996
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,225 ratings — published 2017
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 — 2,246 ratings — published 2022
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,012 ratings — published 2020
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,556 ratings — published 2015
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 838 ratings — published 1992
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,512 ratings — published 2020
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,800 ratings — published 2015
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,233 ratings — published
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,945 ratings — published 2016
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,401 ratings — published 2018
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 49 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 562 ratings — published 1975
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,688 ratings — published 1981
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as engineering)
avg rating 4.44 — 11,408 ratings — published 1978
“To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.”
― For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
― For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
“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
