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		deterministic on Jan 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you'... This one is a waste of time. Nothing new expanded to (what feels like) thousands of pages.

bainsfather on Jan 16, 2017 [–]

I read the whole book 15 years ago. It was a waste of time and money.

The only new thing I found was a Turing Machine with (iirc) 1 less tape - the whole book could have been reduced to a 4 page paper, as far as new work is concerned.

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