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i struggle to find categories on the front page containing falsifiable assertions

where are the best five books on linear algebra, on signal processing, on control theory, on equid phylogeny, on group theory, on energy-efficient architectural design, on civil engineering?

they do have https://fivebooks.com/best-books/artificial-intelligence-gpt... to be fair, and all five seem to actually exist, but kahneman is in the list?

some of the lists on https://fivebooks.com/category/technology/ look more promising

for example, they do have a list of five books on programming. but it includes 'clean code', by that unqualified blowhard bob martin? the cs for data science list looks possibly okay

and their recommendations for philosophy of technology come from... evgeny morozov? are they deliberately trying to get terrible recommendations?



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This is a respectable try at a better crowdsourced collection (if you haven't seen it): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...

To do better I'd want to sort/filter at least semiautomatically by personal taste/judgement -- that could use a UI along the lines of the one I prototyped for a client for image search in the late 2000s, maybe mixed with ideas from Advogato. That's starting to sound like work, to make a new system and get it to be popular enough to accumulate enough data to work with. I wonder if there's an open-data form of something like this five-books site (not this one: https://fivebooks.com/Terms-of-Service/)


this is great, thanks!

we miss you on irc


Where do you tend to hang out since the death of freenode? (I'm not sure you're receiving my emails but feel free to reply over email.)

libera! freenode didn't die, it just had to change its name

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