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Comment author: mesolude 03 August 2014 05:20:29AM *  0 points [-]
  • The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil, outdated but thought provoking.
  • My Stroke of Insight - Jill B Taylor, a TED talk-ish book on neuroscience for the masses.
  • I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter, GEB without the dialogues and focused on consciousness.
  • The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver, makes a good case for Bayes' theorem without showing the theorem.
  • Social Engineering: the Art of Human Hacking - Chris Hadnagy, rehashes Cialdini's Influence, describes some neat techniques, and includes some pseudoscience. Still nice intro to social engineering despite the author being a pentester, not a writer.
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