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brudgers
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Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
Even his noise is signal. He is Donald Knuth.
The Art of Computer Programming
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eliben
on Aug 9, 2015
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While (probably whimsically) not what the OP meant, I will attest to the accuracy of this recommendation - TAOCP has one of the highest SNRs I've ever seen in a book. For its thousands of pages, this says a lot.
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The 50 years writing and editing has been about pairing the text down to what matters. It just turns out that a lot of things matter.
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