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Sapiens (Paperback, 2014, Vintage Books) 4 stars

El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de …

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2 stars

This books tries to talk about everything but ends up talking about nothing.

It takes the sweetest bits, the sensational bits, from the most popular disciplines, smash them together to make a very provocative and fascinating book. Going through chapter after chapter felt like brainlessly scrolling through TikTok style videos, the obnoxious particular kind that start with the phrase "Did you knogw that...".

I think that Harari wanted to be impersonal while expounding his favourite scientific facts, nonetheless I found him to be tendentious and biased, even if only in a small number of occasions, particularly when adding to the fact.

ARM 64-Bit Assembly Language (Paperback, 2019, Newnes) 4 stars

ARM 64-Bit Assembly Language carefully explains the concepts of assembly language programming, slowly building from …

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4 stars

It is a good book. Other than assembly it explains computer architecture, touches Linux and explains conventions about programming and standards about encoding. There are lots of examples. Often the assembly implementation of a program goes in parallel with a C implementation of it. In explaining each instruction it gives a description using pseudocode, which I found very clear.

The topic I found most interesting learning was structured programming, because it made assembly usable like any other language.

A Brief History of Time (1998, Bantam; 10th anniversary edition) 4 stars

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book …

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So... We are nothing more than a colony of ants living on a little rock, floating in an infinite and chaotic universe?

While reading this book I learned a lot of things I was ignoring. I am convinced that if more people had a good understanding of the topics in this book, our society would be different. I enjoyed reading A Brief History of Time, but I have to confess that I had a not so easy time going through some passages and concepts, even tough the book itself is very clear.

Beyond the cold landscape that Hawking depicts through the pages, there is a message about the nature of science. I appreciated how he states things explicitly, like when he states that there is no way of knowing for sure if a theory is correct. Hawking doesn't just spit facts about each topic, instead he reasons with the reader, …