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sramsay on Sept 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hard comp-fi reading list

I was surprised that wasn't on there. Seems to me more closely allied with the genre than Diamond Age.

entropicdrifter on Sept 30, 2019 [–]

To be fair, Diamond Age does have a solid section where one of the main characters learns all of the fundamentals of computer science, networking, and the foundations of crypto. Pretty good metaphors for absorbing the general concepts are in there.

Alex63 on Sept 30, 2019 | [–]

Hear, hear! DA is my favorite; love the Turing machine castle.

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