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Revision as of 19:00, 14 July 2016

Inner margins (that margin next to the binding): .375--1in, depending on page count
Outer margins: minimum .25in, recommended .5in

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The Finest Machine: The Science and the Joy of Computing.

Computing from the ground up, beginning with formal systems and moving up through information theory, VLSI, microprocessors and programming languages.
Failed Kickstarter project
Table of Contents

Fill in computer science eponym list, market as a phatty Dictionary of Ideas or Binet's Reader's Encyclopedia-like deal
(major and semi-esoteric) Trees. A chapter on each, kinda like The Periodic Kingdom
A guide to low-latency, high-throughput I/O on UNIX and Windows, with an emphasis on API's
Computer Science GRE exam prep
Definitive biography of von Neumann (as of 2009, the three major ones are all garbage)
- possible title: Fekete Pestis (sets up unfortunate puns on my last name, though)
The Well-Tempered Computer (working title): an in-depth guide to modern computer hardware with an emphasis on standards
- Everything from the input power to the output LEDs
- Creative Commons license
Peak CUDA: A guide to NVIDIA microarchitecture and programming for peak on CUDA
ATLympics, a short, poppy history/analysis of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games

Maximum Scrunch, a novel
- the title comes from Hans Bethe's Road from Los Alamos, referring to the conditions at which implosion turns to explosion in a supernova's core collapse
The Annotated Illuminatus!

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 ** Creative Commons license
 * '''Peak CUDA''': A guide to NVIDIA microarchitecture and programming for peak on [[CUDA]]
+* '''ATLympics''', a short, poppy history/analysis of the 1996 [[Atlanta]] Olympic Games
 ==Nascent Fiction==