October 15, 2009 • 8:24 am 2
I am in the middle of rethinking my personal research and to that end debating about how much of my current reading list I should stick to. Here is what I have planned for the next couple of months:
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March 17, 2009 • 2:13 am 4
Long long ago, before Claude Shannon modeled the distribution of English Words as a Markov process, before Larry and Sergey modeled the Random Surfer as a Markov Chain on the Graph of the Internet, before SciGen made Markov Chains the legend of Slashdot, before even Monte-Carlo and Metropolis-Hastings, there was Jonathan Swift.
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May 30, 2008 • 1:35 am 0
Umberto Eco displays tremendous insight and introspection in “The History of Beauty”
November 2, 2007 • 2:39 am 1
This is a totally absorbing book by Stephen Levy- “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution” (There is an online copy whose legality is unclear)
You should definitely read the book if you find these kinds of stories fasinating 
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July 22, 2007 • 9:32 pm 3
I am in no mood to post a lengthy review, but for the record, the final Harry Potter book kicked ass. The first half of the book is average fare. But the second half more than makes up for it. That is despite the fact that me and Pottermaniacs around me had already figured out most of the important “secrets” of story before the book came out. From 400 pages onwards, it was a non-stop exciting roller coaster ride.
Its insane to hope that J.K.R would break her promise to finish off the series and come back to write prequels or sequels. Damn, but I thought Harry would have become an Auror. Maybe thats another story …
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