[HN Gopher] Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Com...
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       Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science
        
       Author : arkj
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2022-05-13 16:51 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | goopthink wrote:
       | This includes primarily heavily excerpted copies of the papers.
       | While some editorial choices may make a lot of sense, you don't
       | know what you don't know between the ellipses.
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | I'm missing " _On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems
       | into modules_ " by David Parnas. Also anything about type
       | systems.
        
       | rectang wrote:
       | The thing about a lot of these classic papers is that they are
       | often not very easy to digest compared with modern retellings of
       | their subject matter. They typically represent the genesis of an
       | idea that became influential and has since been popularized.
       | 
       | Even if the paper's authors are gifted writers (which isn't
       | common), these papers represent early iterations of the
       | presentation of an idea. Later, people who specialize in writing
       | will come along and refine the presentation.
        
       | geophile wrote:
       | The Mythical Man Month?!?! That is not computer science.
        
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       | the_third_wave wrote:
       | I tried feeding the DOIs to Sci-Hub but unfortunately they don't
       | have these documents yet. If anyone here has access may I suggest
       | submitting them to Sci-Hub or Library Genesis? It is, after all,
       | a bit odd to see papers like "Prior Analytics (~350 BCE)" and
       | "The True Method (1677)" hidden behind a paywall.
        
         | hdjjhhvvhga wrote:
         | The individual papers are not, but the book itself is already
         | in Libgen.
        
         | deepakkarki wrote:
         | The classics should be available outside of scihub!
         | 
         | For example, Prior Analytics
         | http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.html
         | 
         | Most famous papers are available via Google scholar!
        
         | _Algernon_ wrote:
         | I believe if you search the title ("Ideas That Created the
         | Future") of the book, you can find it on library genesis. If
         | anyone asks, you didn't hear it from me.
        
       | daturkel wrote:
       | I created a Github repo that tracks "classic papers" of machine
       | learning that folks on HN have enjoyed in the past. Feel free to
       | make a PR if you think I'm missing something good.
       | 
       | https://github.com/daturkel/learning-papers
        
       | waynesonfire wrote:
       | All inaccessible without signing up. Click bait. How is human
       | knowledge like this not freely distributed?
        
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         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | If you don't want to sign up or pay for this particular source,
         | you can use your favorite search engine, enter in the title
         | from the papers, and find all of them online for free.
         | 
         | I'd also wager that, like the book these come from, the PDFs
         | linked here are edited (some for conforming to modern notation,
         | others for fitting into the book itself) versions of the
         | papers. If you use a search engine and find the actual papers,
         | you can find the unedited versions.
        
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         | _Algernon_ wrote:
         | It is distributed freely, though perhaps not legally. Check out
         | library genesis.
        
       | mhh__ wrote:
       | I think my inaugural blogpost/website entry will be on the fun
       | I've been having reading old books and old papers. Some are long
       | gone for a reason but some have clearly been replaced for no
       | reason.
        
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