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It was the first edition of this book that, when I read it 20 years ago, got me "hooked" on computer science as a science rather than as just a fun thing to do
by stakhanov 3y ago
It was the first edition of this book that, when I read it 20 years ago, got me "hooked" on computer science as a science rather than as just a fun thing to do (which I had been doing for several years prior).
When I met Dan Jurafsky, 10 years later, I definitely felt none of that disappointment that often goes with meeting one of your "childhood heroes" and thanked him for writing the book and the impact it had on my life.
- uticus 3y ago1st ed (2000) also on my bookshelf, a good read. Will have to look through what's been updated for a 24-year-comparison. Although much in computer science is reinventing the wheel, LLM so far strikes me as a tool that doesn't have a ton of analogues in history.
- abhgh 3y agoThis, and Manning and Schutze [1] were my hooks into NLP. [1] https://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/ https://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/