Arjun Srivastava's Library

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom
An indispensable handbook to the art of scepticism from two brilliantly contrarian scientists. We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we?Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture eleva...

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this in...

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Peter Seibel
Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work , offering a companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Pete...

Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World
Clive Thompson
'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z.Facebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’...