The book features thorough integration of theory and practice, and presents theory as an essential component of practice, rather than in contrast to it. Thus, students are introduced to the analytic tools they need to write effective and efficient programs, in the...
For thousands of years, people have been saying that the world is changing and will never again be the same. Yet the profound changes happening today are different, because they result from a specific technological development. It is now possible, in principle, to...
A 195-page monograph by a top-1% Netflix Prize contestant. Learn about the famous machine learning competition. Improve your machine learning skills. Learn how to build recommender systems. What’s inside: introduction to predictive modeling, a comprehensive...
The purview of science grows rapidly with time. It is the responsibility of each generation to join new insights to old wisdom, and to distill the key ideas for the next generation. This is the author’s distillation of the last fifty years of statistical...
Strictly speaking, the content of this book is mostly a compilation of a number of blog posts related to .NET memory management from JetBrains ReSharper blog. They had been publishing these posts for the last two years until they realized that it would be great to put...
