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Trevor Blackwell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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PhD in CS. Robotics. Simulation. @ycombinator

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Book Cover for: The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer, Charles J. Murray

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

Charles J. Murray
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@ModeledBehavior The Supermen by Charles Murray was good. It covers his early work at CDC, which was just as interesting as at Cray.

Hardcover, 1997

$42.00Member price:$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Tom Robbins
Trevor BlackwellTrevor Blackwell

(Tom Robbins, _Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates_)

Paperback, 2001

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How to Be a Conservative, Roger Scruton

How to Be a Conservative

Roger Scruton
Trevor BlackwellTrevor Blackwell

@spakhm How to Be a Conservative by Roger Scruton. It's very good on how we've inherited this marvelous system that works, but we don't really understand why it works. We know it's fragile because many societies have collapsed. So let's not monkey with it. Make small changes carefully.

Paperback, 2019

$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book