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bcomnes committed Feb 14, 2024
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Richard Hamming's "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" is a book capturing the lessons he taught in a course he gave at the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
He characterizes what he was trying to teach was "style" of thinking in science and engineering.

Having a physics degree myself, and also finding myself periodically ruminating on the agony of professional software development and hoping to find some overlap between my professional field and Hamming's life experience, I gave the book a read.
Having a physics degree myself, and also finding myself periodically ruminating on the agony of professional software development and hoping to find some overlap between my professional field and Hamming's life experience, I gave it a read.

The book is filled with nuggets of wisdom and illustrates a career of move-the-needle science and engineering at Bell Labs.
I didn't personally find much value in many of the algebraic walk-through's of various topics like information theory, but learning about how Hamming discovered error correcting codes definitely was interesting and worth a read.
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