The classic guide to how computers work, updated with new chapters and interactive graphics

"For me, Code was a revelation. It was the first book about programming that spoke to me. It started with a story, and it built up, layer by layer, analogy by analogy, until I understood not just the Code, but the System. Code is a book that is as much about Systems Thinking and abstractions as it is about code and programming. Code teaches us how many unseen layers there are between the computer syst...

Mensen zijn denkende stukjes van de evoluerende kosmos. Onze samenleving lijkt

echter een noodtoestand te naderen qua klimaat, milieu en mondiale conflicten.

Bert Koene, natuurkundige en historisch onderzoeker, verkent onze voor-

geschiedenis en onderzoekt toekomstscenario’s.

Hij laat zien dat de fysieke wereld heel anders in elkaar zit dan wij intuïtief

denken, maar ook dat zij als het ware is gemáákt voor leven. Oorzaak van onze

huidige crises is volgens Koene het feit dat het gevoel n...

Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the intricacies of quantum systems.

We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries...