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William Cleveland did some research along those lines and he wrote two good books:

    - The elements of graphing data

    - Visualizing data

The first one is of general interest, the second one more specialized for statisticians.

The book has eight voluminous chapters and only one is about hypothesis testing. Much of it is about design of experiments and statistical process control, think something like optimizing the workings of a factory. Hypothesis testing has been under attack in psychology/economics/etc., as part of I think a broader problem those disciplines have drawing reliable conclusions in general, since it is difficult to control all the variables. This book is about engineering and industrial applications which are closer to physics.

Programming is applied algebra just like tying your shoes is applied knot theory :)

Here are a few popular science books:

  One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
  Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker
  Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics by John Stillwell
  Roads to Infinity by John Stillwell

If you want actual textbooks then maybe pick up a set theory textbook like "Naive set theory" by Halmos.

I think these people other than Feynman transcribed and edited the lectures into book form. This seems to have been the process with most (all?) books of his, "QED" and "The character of physical law" were also delivered as lectures and even "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" was an interview originally that was later transcribed and edited.

Perhaps this was one of the talks by Radia Perlman?

Paul Halmos wrote a book I like a lot titled "Linear Algebra Problem Book" that teaches you linear algebra through a sequence of problems - its different from the one posted here in that the problems are often preceded by 2-3 pages of discussion/motivation and almost all of them are conceptual and interesting.

Production failures due to bugs in both TCP-based servers and clients happen all the time, long time ago I invested a little time to learn basic socket programming in C and the ROI on this has really been spectacular. "Unix Network Programming" by Stevens is a great book on this topic, in particular it carefully discusses all the different ways things can go wrong. Wish there was something more up to date that could be recommended, but I don't know anything of comparable quality, so I think you still have to read it and later work out all the Linux-specific details, more modern APIs like epoll etc.