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An introduction to Genetic Algorithms by Melanie Mitchell. I picked it up in a charity bookstore believe it or not and it prompted a lifetime interest in data
by seanhunter 5y ago
An introduction to Genetic Algorithms by Melanie Mitchell. I picked it up in a charity bookstore believe it or not and it prompted a lifetime interest in data science and the field that turned into machine learning.
Purely functional data structures by Chris Okasaki. Just totally changed my perspective about all sorts of things in computer science. As well as being one of the most advanced comp-sci books I've ever read, it's truly mind-expanding in every possible way. How many comp-sci books have you read that make you question how something as basic as a number is stored?
- vermarish 5y agoAre you talking about integers and floats? Or about the process of storing a bytestring? Or something else?
- morelisp 5y agoBased on the book named, likely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew_binary_number_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew_binary_number_system.
- seanhunter 5y agoAll positional number systems but he really goes deep on binary number representations using lists and fancy heaps. I'm not going to post a link because you should buy the book to support the author, but since it is basically a second edition of his PhD thesis you can find that online if you dig around.