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Technical Audio Books - Where Are The Good Ones?

Posted by Cliff on from the stuff-to-listen-to dept.

Gverig asks: "Are any good audio (CD) books for developers, engineers or just geeks. These can be lectures on programming concepts, introductions to systems, best practices, ethics, or even funny stories ala Dilbert. What audio books do you have that help you sharpen your technical skills and improve yourself as a professional?"

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  1. Sharpen my skills? by Daxster · · Score: 2, Funny

    BOFH stories read by a text-to-speech program.

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    Death by snoo-snoo!
  2. Quantum Mechanics on Tape! by GuyMannDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been trying to save time by learning Quantum during my daily commute. It's tough going:

    "The time-dependent one-dimensional Schrödinger equation is given by i hbar partial psi over partial t equals minus h squared over 2 m times partial squared psi over partial x squared plus V of x times psi of x and t where i is the imaginary unit, psi is the time-dependent wavefunction, and V(x) is the potential. However, the equation can be separated into temporal and spatial parts using separation of variables to obtain..."

    Yeah, that drive is extra-special fun now.

    GMD

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    1. Re:Quantum Mechanics on Tape! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hey, if that's the same one that is narrated by Jared from those Subway ads, I've been listening to it too! Did you catch the goof in equation fourty-seven b about 27 minutes into the second side? I swear he says that theta is the eigenfuction when a minute earlier he was using zeta!

    2. Re:Quantum Mechanics on Tape! by pbhj · · Score: 2, Funny

      It was a special case where the eigenvalues mapped to the zeta-function. You obviously weren't listenting to corollary to the normalised recapitulation of equation 33 b (ii) ... duh!

      Damn, if only I hadn't fallen asleep at the wheel I'd be building quantum computers by now instead of being dead.

      Oh well.

      That's QM for you!?!