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Pros
Each chapter is in one long audio chunk. It also mentions the book eat that frog, which recommends doing the most important task first, even if it is ugly. There are many more gems in this book and it is well worth checking out.
Book explains how cache works and why it is important. Explores explore/exploit, scheduling, cacheing, and more.
The rover was programmed to prioritize high priority tasks first in its queue over low priority tasks. The book shows how humans can switch into seemingly irrational and random behaviour. Openness to randomness becomes important in human psychology. I... Read More
The book covers topics such as dating, organizing your closet, and scheduling a road trip. It focuses on exploring/exploit, sorting and tradeoffs; and scheduling being among the subjects of focus. A nice balance between new information and examples en... Read More
Cons
The 37% rule is not a computer algorithm but an assumption. Waiting for a better offer does not work well in real estate. The gittin index is a measure of how stale a prospective home sale gets.
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Quality
The book concludes with the notion of computational kindness where one tries to interact with others so as to minimize the amou... Read More
It was a bit surprising with the level of detail and structure to evoke so many thought provoking responses as it did
Price
This means that the pay off such random behaviour is that sometimes we may accidentally hit on a beneficial behaviour but the c... Read More
The book was a good price on amazon
Competitiveness
It is eyeopening practical and certainly very helpful at any point of anyones life
Then the book focuses on sorting connecting this to how people arrange books on a shelf and also to how teams sort themselves i... Read More
Language used is a little higher however book is translated into more layman’s terms
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One thing i am curious about is how useful this book would be to someone who doesnt work in an itrelated field or isnt leftbrained
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The chapter structure flows smoothly the narration is extremely engaging and the combination of computer science concepts and realworld applications is spot on
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I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn cs concepts in a very approachable applicable form
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But hey if you can find even one and many more are available insight that will help you make better decisions and improve the rest of your life the money and time spent on this book are cheap
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Language used is a little higher however book is translated into more layman’s terms
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It covers algorithms in depth and connects it to the real world where you might apply it
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So wanted to have it as hard copy in my book case
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Tom and brian do the amazing for the data science industry giving clear yet undiluted examples of how data is being used and the algorithmic methods for solving similar problems
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