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The Book That Changed How I Read Technical BooksRichard Hamming's The Art of Doing Science and Engineering didn't teach me a new technique. It taught me to stop reading for information and start reading for judgment.
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Richard Hamming's The Art of Doing Science and Engineering didn't teach me a new technique. It taught me to stop reading for information and start reading for judgment.
Notes on the gap between knowing how to call a library and actually understanding what it's doing, and why I decided to close it the slow way.