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Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things
Advance Praise for Lauren Ipsum
The Computers in This Book
0. Mostly Lost
1. A Hidden Ally
2. Sense and Sensibleness
3. Rounding Error
4. What the Tortoise Said to Laurie
5. Welcome to Symbol
6. A Tinker’s Trade
7. Read Me
8. More Than One Way to Do It
9. Don’t Repeat Yourself
10. A Well-Timed Entrance
11. A Fair Exchange
12. An Improbable Twist
13. The Game of Life
14. In the Abstract
15. Cleverness When It Counts
16. A Change of Plan
17. Chasing Elegants
18. Many Hands Make Light Work
19. Branching Out
20. Fin
21. One More Thing
The Field Guide to Userland
Chapter 0: Mostly Lost
Jargon
Wandering salesman
The Upper and Lower Bounds
Mile Zero
Chapter 1: A Hidden Ally
Xor
Steganosaurus
Chapter 2: Sense and Sensibleness
Composing
Bach’s First Law of Eponymy
Bach’s second Law of Eponymy
Bach’s Third Law of Eponymy
Ampère
Sense vs. Sensibleness
Chapter 3: Rounding Error
Round Robin Algorithm
Chapter 4: What the Tortoise Said to Laurie
Recursion
Achilles and the Tortoise
Chasing Your Tail
Infinity
Infinite Regress
Chapter 5: Welcome to Symbol
Semantic Turnstile
Ponens
Tollens
It’s Only Logical
Chapter 6: A Tinker’s Trade
Hamiltonian Cycle
Fair Coin
Circle
Improbable vs. Impossible
Chapter 7: Read Me
Cryptography
Chapter 8: More Than One Way to Do It
Hugh Rustic
Chapter 9: Don’t Repeat Yourself
Axiom
Chapter 10: A Well-Timed Entrance
Timing Attack
Chapter 11: A Fair Exchange
A Fair Flip
Chapter 12: An Improbable Twist
Attempted Mythology
The Doppelganger
Chapter 13: The Game of Life
Gliders
Chapter 14: In the Abstract
Five Whys
Chapter 15: Cleverness When It Counts
Following the Byzantine Process
Mandelbroccoli
Chapter 16: A Change of Plan
Bruto Fuerza
Chapter 17: Chasing Elegants
Elegants
Fresnel
Decomposing
Relating
Chapter 18: Many Hands Make Light Work
Network
Baudot
Chapter 19: Branching Out
The Garden of Forking Paths
Chapter 21: One More Thing
Telegraph
Kelvin Scale
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