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Physical systems also compute, but they usually have more kinds of parts and are noisy, meaning that mistakes are common and precise outcomes are often not predictable in detail even when the rules are known.
The Engine of Complexity
John Hollenbeck and John Mayfield
Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic.
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
Code, without tests, is not clean. No matter how elegant it is, no matter how readable and accessible, if it hath not tests, it be unclean.
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
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