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12-11-2015, 12:59 PM | #2821 |
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Re: What are you reading?
Stolen Prey - John Sandford
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01-20-2016, 10:25 PM | #2825 |
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Re: What are you reading?
Cujo by Stephen King.
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02-20-2016, 10:41 AM | #2831 |
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Re: What are you reading?
I'm reading several things on the kindle but thought that some here might be interested in my latest e-book selection. It is by one of my colleagues here at Portland State, Melanie Mitchell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Mitchell, http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mm/). If any of you have read Godell, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, know that her PhD advisor authored that book.
Complexity: a Guided Tour (http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Gui.../dp/0199798109) is very well written (at least so far) and targeted at the non-technical audience. I've always been impressed with Melanie's clear communications style and am anxious to see it in action in a setting for the non-technical. And in this area, I am definitely the non-technical. If you are interested in artificial life, machine learning, and such, this is likely a very good book. I'm just starting in so will have more to say in a week or so.
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03-30-2016, 04:33 PM | #2837 | |
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Re: What are you reading?
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Your colleague and Hofstadter must think along the same lines I see she wrote a book called "Analogy-Making as Perception" in '93 and that's pretty close to the subject matter of Hofstatder's latest.
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