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Beginning Cryptography with JavaWhile cryptography can still be a controversial topic in the programming community, …
Pretty thin.
Combining complex science with skillfully executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the shifting border …
There's little in this that isn't already in other collections or online, but I cannot help but buy everything this man writes.
"Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the …
Sadly, the book immediately starts off by saying "Why" is not as interesting as "How" and goes on to make fun of theologists for never agreeing on the definition of "nothing" -- which is certainly true as far as it goes, but still doesn't address the actual teleological problem.
What he does do effectively is discuss the various physical phenomena underlying "nothing" -- virtual particles, quantum foam lattices and the Higgs field. He goes write back to the Big Bang and points out the quantum fluctuations at the point of Big Bang expansion could have "created" energy in the sense that the total energy is zero, but getting to the resting zero state is effectively impossible.
I felt a bit cheated after reading Brian Greene and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, but he does get to the essential point that the Big Bang may have happened because "quantum nothingness" is …
Sadly, the book immediately starts off by saying "Why" is not as interesting as "How" and goes on to make fun of theologists for never agreeing on the definition of "nothing" -- which is certainly true as far as it goes, but still doesn't address the actual teleological problem.
What he does do effectively is discuss the various physical phenomena underlying "nothing" -- virtual particles, quantum foam lattices and the Higgs field. He goes write back to the Big Bang and points out the quantum fluctuations at the point of Big Bang expansion could have "created" energy in the sense that the total energy is zero, but getting to the resting zero state is effectively impossible.
I felt a bit cheated after reading Brian Greene and Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, but he does get to the essential point that the Big Bang may have happened because "quantum nothingness" is unstable, but it still doesn't get to the question of why or how "nothing" can be "unstable" at all. Oh well.
Are you an innovative cook, accustomed to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? …
Decent book, but I couldn't fake any interest in the subject matter.
Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly, and Nico, a group of teenswhose lives are about …
The dialogue of the kids is great. The dialogue of their parents is unbelievably bad -- it's generic supervillian "OUR POWERS ARE GREAT WE WILL DESTROY YOU" to the last people on Earth who would buy it.
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American …
Boring fanservice pandering for geeks.
How bad is it? It contains this line:
"Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again)."
Wizard's First Rule, written by Terry Goodkind, is the first book in the epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth. …
Good. A bit silly.
In this novel, "Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her …
I really wish the protagonist had more character traits than a high libido and an almost instinctive disgust at everything that isn't an adolescent male.
Good, although very outdated now.
Moira Kelly has come to Africa to start her life over. Still reeling from her …
Good. Except for the Leatherman fetish.
"In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end. Love Minus …
Really, truly, surprisingly good.
The tips are good, but author is an ass. He looks down on people for using the term "NDA" because he never heard it before.
