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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
W. Daniel Hillis
Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize -- and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates -- is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken do...