Best cybernetics books according to redditors

> It's not like FB is an extension of an Orwellian government who will come and imprison me or anything.

Facebook regularly provides information to the government. SOURCE. The concern here being not that Facebook would come after you, but that if the government wanted to investigate its citizens it now has a very convenient database where the people self-record the minutiae of their day.

And some people will say, "I've got nothing to hide! Who cares?" To that I would direct those people to THIS THREAD where that argument was discussed thoroughly.

If this area interests you I highly recommend the book Future Crimes by Marc Goodman.

There are two books that are decent

SystemVerilog for Verification and SystemVerilog for Design


I have found The Designer's Guide to VHDL by Peter Ashenden to be a god-send for learning VHDL from a language perspective. I have found nothing as good for SystemVerilog. Those two books I mentioned are close though.

My personal opinion is that SystemVerilog is cool, but frankly just an unmitigated shit-show of language design. They should be ashamed of how poor it is.

There is no concept of a standard library, and things that should be in a standard library are core language. Then there is this idea of a "Verification Methodology" like OVM and UVM, which are libraries, but they are glued into the core language through MACROS!!! MACROS!! I'm not kidding. It is almost comical how bad it is.
As I've said before. We need an open source simulator that can handle multiple language simulations, and then to replace this mess with something modern and awesome.


I would also suggest checking out this guys stuff http://syswip.com/. It is a little funny in some places, but it really helped me understand so of the approaches that a designer could take. The approach a UVM guy would take, is sadly, almost completely different than this. I don't think it is better though depending on what you are doing.

A tutorial written by Ashenden himself

However, I consider his full book as the bible: https://www.amazon.com/Designers-Guide-Third-Systems-Silicon/dp/0120887851/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492258842&sr=8-1&keywords=ashenden+vhdl

Edit: Check out the all time top posts for this subreddit. Multiple posts with free books.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0120887851/

Project Soul Catcher

Inside Track

Pentagon's Brain

Trance:Formation of America

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Yes. He's written two others, available on Amazon. My understanding is Project Soul Catcher is more authoritative with the other being more advice for current victims.

http://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087

Duncan was also interviewed along with a couple ex-CIA agents on Jesse Ventura's show Brain Invaders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koQIjGDNYkw

This website run by activist Cheryl Welsh would be a great resource for anyone researching this: www.mindjustice.org

I see it as a symbolic act above everything else. I've been reading this fascinating book lately about cybernetics called Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History which delves into the cybernetics movement of the 40s-70s and the fucking amazing philosophy behind it that at one point nearly saw a Vietnam War fought by quadruped mechs which enabled the pilot to move 500kg as if it was 30kg with ten hours of training and a Chile whose leaders would have accurate real-time information about every aspect of society two decades before the internet would enable a less-direct route to the same.

Nature made man and man made machine. Just as humans are necessary to correct some defects in nature, machines are necessary to correct some defects in us. There are areas where biology has failed us as an operating system- genetic disorders and injuries and organ malfunctions and illnesses. There are areas where it could be vastly improved mechanically - photosynthetic or vitamin-synthesising skin, intestines with managed microbial ecologies instead of ones which frequently fail to dangerous bacteria and parasites, limbs that are stronger and faster than muscles will allow us to go, eyes that see better in more ways and record or interact with external cameras, hell even an insulin pump or a pacemaker is covering basic areas where man's marriage with machine is the obvious next stage to protect ourselves.

Privacy is a concern of course, but if someone has reason to find or kill you there are a myriad of ways they could do so already and any one of your organs could fail at any second randomly just because shit happens. The direct combination of brain and machine is where we exit alpha testing and enter our beta.

Check out this book for more info on that kind of thing

• Code by Charles Petzold
  
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  
• The Self-Taught Programmer by Cory Althoff
  
• Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving by V. Anton Spraul
  
• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest and Cliffford Stein
  
• Apprenticeship Patterns by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye
  
• Your Code as a Crime Scene by Adam Tornhill
  
  A few that are only relevant to specific languages or niches:
  
  
• Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design by Richard Bird
  
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! by Miran Lipovača
  
• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
  
• The You Don't Know JS series by Kyle Simpson, especially volumes 4 (Types & Grammar) and 5 (Async & Performance).
  
• Identity and Data Security for Web Development by Jonathan LeBlanc and Tim Messerschmidt

'Sync' from Steven Strogatz is solid.

http://www.amazon.com/SYNC-Emerging-Science-Spontaneous-Order/dp/0786868449

Cybernetics was coined by Norbert Wiener. https://www.amazon.com/God-Golem-Inc-Cybernetics-Impinges/dp/0262730111

> If you're not careful, you end up creating your nightmares.

http://www.amazon.com/Cybernetic-Walrus-Wonderland-Gambit-Book/dp/0345386906

Premise: There's only a couple of dozen real people in the world, and whoever dies last determines what the next life will be like.

It wasn't a very good book, IMO, but there weren't any gods involved either. :-) At least, not ones creating the world. Of course some people invented them.

http://www.amazon.com/Sync-Emerging-Science-Spontaneous-Order/dp/0786868449

I think CS and CompE professors often give a lot of very biased and bad advice -- it's too bad. Just like being a linux enthusiast, you don't really need to have a degree or be paid to do it for fun. There are a few very good books on VHDL and Verilog. One is the Designer's guide to VHDL which describes basic logic circuits in VHDL.

It's also just like becoming a good programmer or linux admin in the way that you can't be afraid to read manuals. If you can do that, you can get through it. Google and the Xilinx forums are probably better than they were when you were last in school.

Good luck to you.

This is the best VHDL reference by far.

Ashenden

A decent reference for system verilog, I guess verilog as well.

sysverilog for design

This github account has a good bit of decent FPGA focused Hdl

https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/hdl

And this one

https://github.com/EttusResearch/fpga

If I was you I would focus on being fluent in one vendor, probably Xilinx. I would also focus on learning how to implement Axi4 Streaming Interfaces with back pressure. It’s relatively new on that side of things and may be a decent way to differentiate yourself early on. It’s subtlety complex and very powerful when used consistently.

Anyone I’d think about hiring as a 3 to do FPGA needs to know modelsim or the equivalent. Vendors will try to convince you their generator stuff is so good “you don’t have to simulate it!” They are lying.

Get the vendor one from microsemi or Altera, or use xsim. Xsim I find dumb, but I’ve got lots of stick time on more expensive tools.

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Cybernetics ... by Norber Weiner... http://www.amazon.com/Cybernetics-Second-Control-Communication-Machine/dp/026273009X

There is an amazing book by mathematician Steven H. Strogatz called Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order that I highly recommend. He claims seemingly spontaneous synchronization is all around us from swarms of synchronously flashing fireflies, chirping crickets, to complex human behavior from fads to the stock market.

I just ordered this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486434842/

Good price, good reviews. If you'd like, I can let you know how it goes.

Hi all, just a quick background: total newbie to Python, no professional work in IT.

Picked up an eBook on Amazon to learn Python.

I'm already stuck lol. I'm trying to set up a Path (?) and after following the book's instructions, I get a "setenv command not found" error.

After installing Python 2 and 3 on my Mac, my terminal looks different, it says bash on the top now and has a white screen, as oppose to the usual black.

Screenshot of eBook Instructions

A little digging on Google has led me to information about switching the Mac Terminal app from bash to tcsh. I'm just a little gun shy on switching things over, as I really have no clue what I'm doing.

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EDIT: Wait, I just noticed something, I guess these are just three different ways to set the Path?

Check out this book, it will explain EVERYTHING. Everybody should read this book:
New Psycho-Cybernetics Updated Edition by Maltz, Maxwell [2002] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BXUEQAQ/ref=cm_sw_r_apw_ga0uxbMJTF54F

You need to get him to read these books:

http://thoughtlessness23.blogspot.com.au/

https://www.amazon.com/How-Tame-Demon-intimidation-electronic/dp/1492912662

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1452804087&pd_rd_r=3R9N53BN6488EKM11ZQN&pd_rd_w=cAiKS&pd_rd_wg=E4Flu&psc=1&refRID=3R9N53BN6488EKM11ZQN

https://www.amazon.com/Guinea-Pigs-Technologies-John-Hall/dp/163135552X/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=163135552X&pd_rd_r=WCANQ9PH2ZSQRX1XNTXE&pd_rd_w=62LrP&pd_rd_wg=zhic8&psc=1&refRID=WCANQ9PH2ZSQRX1XNTXE

Offer to buy them for him if you are a true friend (TIs will quickly run out of money). The first one is free though.

The names he's given you are just random people he knows and likely have nothing to do with his stalking. It's a Government run program and he is most likely to have been selected due to 'talent' eg. very smart.

I agree but I'm not sure if it's best to start with this book.

The Student's Guide to VHDL (https://www.amazon.com/Students-Guide-VHDL-Systems-Silicon/dp/1558608656) is better as an initial introduction imho.

The Syntellect Hypothesis by Alex Vikoulov is the best to date: https://www.amazon.com/Syntellect-Hypothesis-Paradigms-Minds-Evolution/dp/0578451204

If you are interested in this kind of thing I recommend "Between human and machine" by David A. Mindell. Amazon link and a lecture at MIT about the book.

Try Sync - The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz.

psycho-cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz WILL help you with your self-image. I am sure you must have heard about him, did you try his methods, if not get yourself the ORIGINAL book written by Maxwell Maltz, not the others updated stuff written by others.
https://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-Technique-Using-Subconscious-Power/dp/B000BHN4K0/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1506567085&sr=8-5&keywords=maxwell+maltz+psycho-cybernetics

About state control, isn't it all about physiology. Check out Amy Cuddy Tex Talk here :
https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are/discussion

What methods are you using for state control?

curiosity36: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link

Not at all. The author's accounts are, tragically, accurate. He (Robert Duncan) was featured on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory show "Brain Invaders," has been working with some surprisingly big-named scientists (The Mind Hacking Strategy Group- with a little digging you can find some other members' names) to combat and publicize the situation, and has another book on Amazon now: http://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087

Well, the whole merits of IP and how we treat IP today is a slightly different conversation.

The real conversation in regards to the original topic is the fact that the way we regard IP is very different than how we did, 50-100 years ago. Let alone the way it was handled by enlightenment thinkers and the creators of the world's first democracies and republics.

Quite frankly, the incentive that would have been in their minds (and people like Smith), would have been that people would be able to extract a certain amount of money out of their creations (purely by being the first people to do it) and that eventually the knowledge would be released in some way to an intellectual "commons".

The history of these ideas and how they've changed is really interesting, but maybe a bit much to relay here. Some really good books on the subject:

The Anarchist in the Library

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Essentially, for most of society there has been a concept of "the commons". Public spaces that everyone was entitled to use. The (earliest? not sure) most popular manifestation of this was common ground for grazing livestock. It was public land that anyone could bring their animals to, and was regarded as a public service that was in the best interest of the society. It eased pressure on land disputes, let poorer farmers stay above water, etc. Simply, just a good thing for everyone involved. Of course, since it was essentially free animal food, there were instances where the commons were worn down and rendered useless. This is where the phrase "tragedy of the commons" comes from. Regulations were put in place to make the commons effective for the common good, but also sustainable.

These types of initiatives/societal mechanisms were thought by enlightenment thinkers as necessary for our advancement. And those types of things were included in the way they thought about IP, as well. Simply put, it looks much different now than it did then. Things like "The Mickey Mouse Preservation act", for better or worse, made those changes.

So, what someone like Smith would say, is that there is "common good" that comes from free IP. The idea that no one has the patent on the concept of a car is a good thing because it frees up capital for different car companies to compete and make the best car. The individual loss of intellectual "ownership", and whatever that might mean on a broader societal scale, is outweighed by the benefits of "the commons".

But Smith had no concept of "ripping a movie". None of these enlightenment thinkers had any idea of what technology would become, and how that would fundamentally alter the way their theories actually played out in the real world. And since they didn't "cover that", we are left to be the philosophers and thinkers of our time instead of relying on the big ideas of the 1700s. In light of digital technology, the capability to replicate things, the transmit them almost instantaneously all over the world, putting the means of media production into the hands of every man woman and child in an effectively affordable manner... how do we need to build our society? How can we maintain incentive? What is the role of the commons? What are the real ramifications of our decisions? What do we want to achieve, and why?

It's all very interesting to me.

You sound like a bright eyed youth. Don't dim your bright eyes by seeking "realizations" by ingesting a chemical, man. It's only temporary, superficial "enlightenment". Be honest with yourself, you're just totally stoked and eager to take some drugs and "like, have all these PROFOUND realizations and get a way positive outlook man...". It's not like you haven't already crafted an image and an identity for your post-trip self that you fully intend on living up to..

What if I told you transcendental meditation and astral projection makes people think of things differently in a positive way and have realizations that they benefit from, similar to a great LSD experience? Would you be eagerly wanting to try it, and wanting to convince your girlfriend to try it too? Fuck no you wouldn't because you lack the discipline and you know it. You want to take a short cut that requires literally no thought or effort. You like drugs, and you want to justify your drug use as some kind of enlightenment-seeking, neo-shamanic, vision quest. You want to be a part of the internet counter culture of "educated drug users, who do their research".

What are your interests and hobbies in life? Do you have priorities? Let me recommend you books that will broaden your horizons to some mind blowing topics

In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Astral Projection and the Nature of Reality: Exploring the Out-of-Body State

The Origins and History of Consciousness

Nothing: A Very Short Introduction