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Jokes and their relation to the unconscious by Sigmund Freud
Data Mining: Building Competitive Advantage by Robert Groth
Protagoras and Meno (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Artificial intelligence : strategies, applications, and models through SEARCH by Christopher James Thornton
Machine learning : a theoretical approach by Balas Kausik Natarajan
Programming challenges : the programming contest training manual by Steven S. Skiena
Mathematics and politics : strategy, voting, power and proof by Alan D. Taylor
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About me Swedish software developer with a background in political science, philosophy and computer science. Also interested in other stuff such as mathematics, statistics, data mining/machine learning, magic, constraint programming, skepticism, Tai Chi Chuan, puzzles, science fiction, puzzle crime novels, humor, Jane Austen etc.
For the inclined, see my swedish blog at http://www.hakank.org/webblogg/ .
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On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins
Hawkins created the Palm Pilot OS, founded Palm Computing, then Hand Spring, then Trio... but it all started just because he wanted to raise money to finance research in artificial intelligence. His academic studies are in both computer science, and neuroscience. He realised that the reason artificial intelligence had so far never been able to live up to its promise was that the people who did brain research and the people who wrote software never spoke to each other, so he decided he would study both and be that bridge. The problem was, he didn't have the money to fund his own research. So he took a detour into entrepreneurialism for a few years to build up cash, then used his millions to found the Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
The first half of the book is his story- How he chose to take his path in his studies, how he went about founding Palm, and his entrepreneurial pursuits. How he then created Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
The second half of the book is his theory of artificial intelligence.
posted by ChrisG at 10:01 am (EST) on Aug 16, 2006
I did like Lowenthal's books, both the biographic parts about Cheng Man-Ch'Ing, and the personal notes of a practitioner trying to perfect his art.
posted by hakank at 1:58 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2005
posted by hakank at 1:30 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2005
I was interested to see that you also must be a tai chi practitioner. And I was surprised to see that you own copies of my teacher's books (Wolfe Lowenthal). I hope you enjoy them. I think he is now working on book #3. Do you also practice push hands or da lu?
posted by hrabbit at 5:36 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2005
posted by snifty at 1:13 am (EST) on Sep 18, 2005
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