Free Download Bitwise: A Life in Code by David Auerbach, David Marantz, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07GPTSLX2 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: Variable / 9 hours and 54 minutes | 152 Mb
An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are.
Bitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philosopher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the Apple IIe, his adventures in early text-based video games, his education as an engineer, and his contributions to instant messaging technology developed for Microsoft and the servers powering Google’s data stores.
A lifelong student of the systems that shape our lives – from the psychiatric taxonomy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual to how Facebook tracks and profiles its users – Auerbach reflects on how he has experienced the algorithms that taxonomize human speech, knowledge, and behavior and that compel us to do the same.