My Goodreads Rating: 4 of 5 stars
WARNING: If you’re reading a review of this book, then a friend or random stranger on the street has likely already fell to the ground before you and wailed that the geek prophet has arrived. Any attempt at a thorough description of this incredible (and incredibly strange) mash-up [...]
Book Review: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
December 17th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: AI · brains · computers · intelligence
Book Review: Feynman Lectures on Computation by Richard Feynman
June 30th, 2009 No Comments
My Goodreads Review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
There’s a reason Richard Feynman is the most famous physics lecturer of all time. No, it’s not because he held his office hours in a strip club (though he did) or that he helped develop the atomic bomb (though he did) or that he openly abused drugs, attended [...]
Tags: computer science · computers