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!bookworms !math !physics !chemistry a thread to recommend textbooks either for other stemcels wishing to get a deeper understanding of their fields or for hobbyists who want to learn (please state the necessary knowledge to use the textbook. E.g. a Fluid Dynamics textbooks will require the user to know Differential Equations and Calculus 3).
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Basically an "applied" physics
textbook. Breaks down and explains everything very well. It help to understand fluid dynamics and basic 
physics 
but not required.
Required !burgers reading
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lol just read Cleckner
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This is more of the math and physics
behind 
it rather than a guide to shooting 
though it obviously can be applied
Edit: a random
page for reference
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Honestly with bio its hard to recommend a textbook. Shit moves so fast that even new textbooks are like 5 years out of date. It takes like 5 years for something to become established enough to hit textbooks, then another 5 years for those books to disseminate into undergraduate content. The latest edition of any mainstream Microbio book will be fine I feel but bio and medicine moves way way to fast for textbooks to be viable past undergrad. Going into grad school or a job is basically being slapped in the face lol. In terms of textbooks ive kept I still have this micro textbook
Which has been renamed to Microbiology : Principles and Explorations for its most recent editions so id go for that for the most accurate stuff.
and I have this book which seems to be the most recent edition but informatics moves so fast lots of traditional anaylsis methods like functional enrichment and DESEQ2 are being called into question.
I also have the third special edition of the C++ book (basically version 3.5 in that it came out before the 4th edition but contains many corrections and additions to the third edition).Naturally the most recent 4th edition would be best since C++ quickly evolves but slightly older textbook versions are always cheaper (the 4th edition goes for like 40$ while the 3rd special edition goes for 5$)
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Wdym?
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its not like these textbooks are super wrong but they are very simplfied and our ubderstanding of genetics grows more and more complex by the year. Textbooks rn follow a very simplifed central dogma and one gene one primer para dime. Now we know a promoter region can be on an entirely different chromosome and regulates hundreds of chromosomes. Plus things like rna half life, ribosome avalibility, and trna availability and effect translation more then transcription rates. One piece of mRNA with a long half life can be reused endlessly to make more proteins then thousands of mRNAs which a short half life and limited ribosomal binding affinity.
There is ribozymes, so many types of RNA ect. !biology
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Ty for reminding me why I gave up on my bio dream at 13
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This is true on Bioprocess engineering too. The book I linked was given to me at the beginning of my masters (2020) but it was already missing new info at that point. In 2024 it's missing even more
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My profs only include textbooks because the university requires it. Most just say "well the book is there if you want to hear the material in another way" only my intro to database class required the textbook but programming fundamentals dont move as fast depending on the language.
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not reading your substack
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Wanna know how biologic drugs (antibodies, vaccines, viral vectors, etc) are made? Doran is a good starting point:
EDIT: I have the pdf lying around somewhere if anyone wants it
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hit me up neighbor
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PM your email address and I'll send it to you soon from my burner
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Atkin's Physical Chemistry
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Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design and Bralla's DFM Handbook. These are the only textbooks where legit engineers have told me they sometimes reference these for work
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As if there could ever be a non-STEMcel edition.
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Language learning usually needs textbooks too
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Not a textbook (bc why would you want to read a particular textbook for fun?) but Scott Aaronson's overview on the progress on the P?=NP (as of 2017) is pretty accessible and, yes, fun. The natural proofs barrier must be the most hilarious theorem ever discovered!
https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf
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I finally bought SICP a couple months ago, as someone who already has a programming background but has only done OOP slop since inception. I would like to hear arguments on why it's a bad choice.
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1. Hard to maintain
2. Hard to distribute work
3. Side effects are hard to achieve and require careful deliberation
But I think jane street uses ocaml for their development
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I'm less interested in being a full time LISP shill than training a new paradigm to think with. The book opens explicitly saying that it's not a LISP book, but just a specific way to reframe problems. Importantly, a lot of concepts from LISP are used in nearly all modern languages that I don't grasp well or at the very least know how to use them for common use cases (list comprehensions, MS Linq, lambdas, callbacks).
For example, it is extremely easy to represent a case analysis in LISP. It translates almost word for word to a mathematical representation. I have never thought this way when trying to set up boolean expression for conditionals in other languages.
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The Science and Design of the Hybrid Rocket Engine by Richard M Newland
How to build a simple advanced rocket engine on an amateur level. No prerequisites really
It's typefaced in Microsoft Paint but it contains some good stuff
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Unnecessary and uncalled for ping
two more strikes and you're getting blocked + megadownmarseyd buddy, don't test your luck
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