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Re:Ask HN: How do you learn Rust in 2023? on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:15PM (#38133710)
There's a Youtube playlist I stumbled on. It follows along with the Rust Book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9HJsJUDxA&list=PLai5B987bZ....

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why? on Sunday November 30, 2014 @12:32AM (#8676079)
It has been on my list of books to read since I saw it on the Incidental Economist blog years ago. Thanks for giving me the push I needed to read it.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why? on Saturday November 29, 2014 @11:00PM (#8675936)
Not tech related but...

Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care by Kenneth Arrow (1963) [1].

This paper effectively makes the case that medical care shouldn't be treated like other goods.

If you're remotely interested in health econ/health industry, I recommend reading it.

1. https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/top20/53.5.941-973.pdf

The Little MongoDB Book might help. It doesn't answer all your questions but it gave me enough background (albeit MongoDB specific) to learn more. It's also a fairy short read. http://openmymind.net/mongodb.pdf