October 15, 2009 • 8:24 am
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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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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November 2, 2007 • 2:39 am
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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