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Prof. Sussman's Reading List (2016)

55 points by tmseidman 2y ago

perihelions 2y ago
Previous thread here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411408 ("Prof. Sussman's Reading List (aurellem.org)" (2015), 75 comments)
neilv 2y ago
We need a lot more Gerald Sussmans.
FredPret 2y ago
> The Feynman Lectures on Physics > Highly understandable Haha, I love the Feynman Lectures, but the only reason I can make head or tails of it is because I'm using it to brush up on subjects I've already studied before
- II2II 2y ago
  I would describe the Feynman Lectures as highly understandable in the same way that I would describe the Art of Electronics as highly understandable: while you will definitely benefit from prior exposure, these are the books I would choose if I could only read only one book in their respective fields. While they take more effort to understand, I'm pretty sure I could have read them coming out of high school and would have had a better understanding of the subject matter than I would have gained from the eclectic mix of textbooks I did learn from.
GaltMidas 2y ago
It’s a shame that those Minsky links have been broken for at least a few months now. Does anyone know where this material is?
- perihelions 2y ago
  Looks like someone is mirroring it here, https://www.mit.edu/~dxh/marvin/web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/minsky.html https://www.mit.edu/~dxh/marvin/web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/mi... Looks identical to the old captures on archive.org, so that checks out.
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teleforce 2y ago
I highly recommend Prof. Sussman talk at the Strange Loop conference 2011 [1]. It's not his inaugural lecture but it's pretty close where he talk about his research work with his former students. It's also paved the way to modern constraint programming based on logic and optimization which are the machine intelligence that's complementary to the conventional data driven and learning bases AI. [1] "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman - MIT (2011) [video]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI
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55 points by tmseidman 2y ago

Previous thread here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411408 ("Prof. Sussman's Reading List (aurellem.org)" (2015), 75 comments)

neilv 2y ago

We need a lot more Gerald Sussmans.

FredPret 2y ago

> The Feynman Lectures on Physics > Highly understandable Haha, I love the Feynman Lectures, but the only reason I can make head or tails of it is because I'm using it to brush up on subjects I've already studied before

II2II 2y ago
I would describe the Feynman Lectures as highly understandable in the same way that I would describe the Art of Electronics as highly understandable: while you will definitely benefit from prior exposure, these are the books I would choose if I could only read only one book in their respective fields. While they take more effort to understand, I'm pretty sure I could have read them coming out of high school and would have had a better understanding of the subject matter than I would have gained from the eclectic mix of textbooks I did learn from.

GaltMidas 2y ago

It’s a shame that those Minsky links have been broken for at least a few months now. Does anyone know where this material is?

perihelions 2y ago
Looks like someone is mirroring it here, https://www.mit.edu/~dxh/marvin/web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/minsky.html https://www.mit.edu/~dxh/marvin/web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/mi... Looks identical to the old captures on archive.org, so that checks out.

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teleforce 2y ago

I highly recommend Prof. Sussman talk at the Strange Loop conference 2011 [1]. It's not his inaugural lecture but it's pretty close where he talk about his research work with his former students. It's also paved the way to modern constraint programming based on logic and optimization which are the machine intelligence that's complementary to the conventional data driven and learning bases AI. [1] "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman - MIT (2011) [video]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI

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