Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application. ...more

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Art of Electronics
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
How To Build A Car
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ It doesn't matter who is in charge, because this problem is out of humanity's league. ...more ”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Warum eine superintelligente KI uns alle vernichten würde | Der New York Times Bestseller über Risiken der künstlichen Intelligenz

“ Noise, Hix always held, is a symptom of imperfect engineering. ”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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