一本好书
Monday, 12. January 2009, 22:10:31
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
Saturday, 8. September 2007, 21:04:27
Friday, 2. February 2007, 21:17:11
周末,一个人在家,看电视已经戒了,把地上的书整理了一下,边理边翻。其中一本颇有感情,是当年第一次步入大学学堂的教材SICP,书前面已经断线,给我用大量的胶水粘住,翻起来有点困难。前段时间一位网人 Email 采访各大牛人,被问道最想读什么技术性书籍的时候,Peter Norvig 还把 SICP 抬了出来。想来不是没有理由的,脚注4提到:作为google的技术首脑,Norvig对large-scale program design有兴趣的可能性很大,况且这还是scheme。....In fact, the treatment of numbers is one of the trickiest and most confusing aspects of any programming language.....Since our focus in this book is on large-scale program design rather than on numerical techniques, we are going to ignore these problems....
Friday, 2. February 2007, 14:26:43
写PageRank算法的书似乎就找到这么一本:Google's PageRank and Beyond -- The science of search engine rankings,Langville是一位女数学教授,Meyer是一位男数学教授,雌雄二教授宣称为了让学生了解数学(线性代数)并不是那么枯燥,写了这本书。比较详细地讨论了PageRank和Jon Kleinberg(当时在IBM Almaden研究中心,现为康奈尔大学教授)的HITS。Wednesday, 10. January 2007, 23:41:30
Thursday, 27. October 2005, 22:57:39
不过连同导读部分,此书近1000页,要看上一段时间。I suffered through college math all the way through differential equations, and I never really "got" it. I just memorized the steps and, when exam time rolled around, hoped I could remember which procedure went with which problem. The light finally came on in grad school, and _Principia_ was the switch. Reading the _Principia_ let me get underneath formal calculus and imbued it with a sense of wonder and soul. To see the theory set out step-by-step, to follow with Newton as he envisioned a new way of painting the world, gave me the ability to internalize the calculus, to say, finally, "Yes, that's intuitively right." I wish I'd read the _Principia_ much earlier in my education. It would have saved me a lot of pain.
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