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A book I enjoyed on this subject was Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History Of Heat By Hans Christian Von Baeyer (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/184266/warmth-dispe...)


Blindsight, Peter Watts [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)]. Avaliable free in a number of formats from his website: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm


Third and final article doesn't appear to be linked from the others but is online. https://towardsdatascience.com/human-like-machine-hearing-wi...


Accompanying article: https://www.theverge.com/science/2019/2/19/18225564/animal-r...

ScienceDaily article with link to original paper: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190107142221.h...

And github repo: https://github.com/DrCoffey/DeepSqueak/


Maybe not "better literature" but I always look forward to a new Rebus novel by Ian Rankin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector%20Rebus).

Though, the best (IMHO) whodunnit of 2018 is Stuart Turton's "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337550-the-7-deaths-of...)


Today's transcript: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/santos-and-m-v-sec...


Would that play be Copenhagen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_(play))? If so, I highly recommend the BBC adaptation with Daniel Craig as Heisenberg, Stephen Rea as Niels Bohr, and Francesca Annis as Margrethe Bohr.


Audio recording: http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/scr/hacker/AudioRecordings.html


Also Church [http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church], a Scheme derivative with probabilistic semantics.


Or the threading macro #(-> 5 %)


Or (fn [f] 25)


    (constantly 25)


also #(% 5)


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