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Lindy books remain relevant even decades from now—worthy of reading and rereading. Want to avoid wasting your time? Read them! Nassim Taleb introduced the Lindy filter as an absorbing barrier, ensuring only certain books stand the test of time. Two key factors determine a book’s longevity: the author and the subject matter. Some topics remain timeless, while others gain short-term attention but soon fade into irrelevance. Similarly, an author’s insights can become obsolete if they lack Skin in the Game or sufficient erudition. This site offers a carefully curated book database with minimal noise. The books are selected based on following heuristics. Read more about the lindy effect.

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

Peter Van Roy & Seif Haridi

This comprehensive book provides a broad exploration of programming paradigms and their underlying concepts. It covers declarative, functional, logic, constraint, object-oriented, and concurrent programming, among others, using the Oz programming language to illustrate them. The authors emphasize...

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A Discipline of Programming

Edsger W. Dijkstra

This seminal work in computer science introduces Dijkstra's approach to structured programming. It emphasizes rigorous, mathematical methods for designing and verifying programs, focusing on clarity, correctness, and efficiency.

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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition

Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, translated by Elias Muhanna: This book is a condensed translation of a 14th-century Arabic encyclopedia, Nihayat al-Arab fi Funun al-Adab, compiled by the Egyptian scholar al-Nuwayri. Spanning cosmology, history, poetry,...

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