The books people recommended

2025-01-13 · 490 points · 68 comments · 15 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

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Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
2 here · 47 all-time · #94 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 2,395 ratings on Amazon
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
1 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson
1 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
1
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
1 here · 178 all-time · #7 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,966 ratings on Amazon
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The Art of Computer Programming
Donald Knuth
1 here · 127 all-time · #14 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 203 ratings on Amazon
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
1 here · 114 all-time · #18 overall
Buy on Amazon4.9 out of 5, 14,620 ratings on Amazon
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The Pragmatic Programmer
Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
1 here · 102 all-time · #26 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 3,644 ratings on Amazon
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
1 here · 101 all-time · #28 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 30,738 ratings on Amazon
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The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
1 here · 38 all-time · #129 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 7,297 ratings on Amazon
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
1 here · 33 all-time · #167 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,045 ratings on Amazon
1Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
1 here · 29 all-time · #195 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 664 ratings on Amazon
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1 here · 27 all-time · #212 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,706 ratings on Amazon
1The Master Algorithm
The Master Algorithm
Pedro Domingos
1 here · 15 all-time · #432 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 1,752 ratings on Amazon
1The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil
1 here · 10 all-time · #622 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 2,109 ratings on Amazon
1The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead
Bill Gates
1 here · 6 all-time · #1137 overall