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Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings
Amy N. Langville, Carl D. Meyer
Princeton University Press, 2006
Great book...
+ Good balance
+ iPhone - Google - "Single function buttons hold promise"
Great book. It's nice to have all the recent work done in trust metrics all in one place.
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A Life of Jung
Ronald Hayman
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002
Dropping in on the neighborhood madman.
Sometimes I feel guilty for not starting at the beginning of a book like this and reading right through. Hayman removes such guilt by the curious expediant of neglecting to put his anecdotes into any coherent form. It hardly seems to matter where you start -- the author seemed to have trouble even ...
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The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire
Andrew Marshall
Counterpoint Press, 2002
A superb book, with a glitch
+ Great read
+ You curious 'bout Burma? Buy this book.
+ Thoughtful & Informative
+ Eye opening
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Programming Python
Mark Lutz, 1996
Good enough I suppose
One thing I really wish O'Reilly would have made clear on the cover is the version of Python which was current at the time of publication. In this case, it's 2.4, so if you're looking for information on things like function decorators or the new generator abilities that 2.5 brought along, you're ...
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally
Viking Adult, 2007
Very Informative and Approachable
+ Nontechnical overview emphasizing debates between scientists.
I thought this was a very fair and balanced approach to the biological and social history behind the development of human language. Though it does not draw any particular conclusions, it presents the reader with several well researched expert opinions on the subject and makes heavy use of science ...
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin, 2005
A side of Burma that visitors can't see
+ The Time of the Green Spectacles
+ Orwell the Prophet: biographical footnotes
+ Eric Blair in Burma
+ A glimpse into a hidden world
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Data Mining with Decision Trees: Theroy and Applications (Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence)
Lior Rokach, Oded Maimon
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2008
Specialists should consider it, Practitioners should look elsewhere
I will recommend this to one or two colleagues, but it will not be something I will recommend to clients.
The first thing you notice about this book is its very academic style. It has numbered paragraphs like 2.0, and 7.3.1.12. It been used a graduate text, presumably for mathematicians and ...
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A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung (Guided Tour)
Robert H. Hopcke
Shambhala, 1999
Vergil guiding Dante
Since the "Collected Works" is so huge, it is good to have this guide which specifically mentions the volumes and pages for particular topics such as acheotypes and dreams. It helps focus the searching. I highly recommend it.
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A Blessing over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother
Adam Fifield
Harper Paperbacks, 2001
A unique depiction of time, place and family
+ Very Powerful
+ Fabulous!
+ Riveting
+ Exquisite Combination of Truth and Compassion
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Bangkok 8: A Novel
John Burdett
Vintage, 2004
A HODGEPODGE OF INGENUITY!
+ Bangkok fan
+ Sonchai's debut
Forget about whether or not this book accurately depicts Bangkok life, or is slanted by the misconstrued vision of the author. After all, it is not a travelogue, it is a work of fiction first and foremost. And it is a work of fiction of extreme ingenuity. The writer is highly talented. He is ...
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Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods (Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006
As a generalization of simple correspondence analysis, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a powerful technique for handling larger, more complex datasets, including the high-dimensional categorical data often encountered in the social sciences, marketing, health economics, and biomedical research. Until now, however, the literature on the subject has been scattered, leaving many in these ...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Viking Adult, 2007
Great book that covers the most important part of linguistics
+ Good but dense
+ The chicken-and-egg of language
The Stuff of Thought is a book that covers the interaction between language and reality. I've read some other books on linguistics, but I found this to be the most interesting. Part of it is the fact that Pinker is a good author that bridges the gap between popular science and real research. The ...
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Ian Ayres
Bantam, 2007
The End of Intuition
The author explains that he originally intended to title the book, "The End of Intuition". I think that would have been the better title. Interestingly, the name change resulted in a clever use of Google's adwords. The problem with the title Super Crunchers is that it makes the impression that the ...
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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Five stars but... for the right audience!
+ A Panacea for Information Overload
I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior ...
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Freedom Evolves
Daniel C. Dennett, 2003
Well Done Dennett
+ The evolution of freedom
+ A Strong Case for Darwinian Compatibilism
This book does a magnificent job of presenting the idea of freedom in a mathematical format that simply cannot be refuted. Are we determined mechanisms in a determined universe? Dennet says yes. But he argues effectively that this does NOT mean that we are fatally doomed to any particular future. ...
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