Review:Besides my own business reasons for wanting to know as much as I can about Google, I think Google's now so central to learning that the more I understand it, the better I'll learn. Marshall McLuhan was right: the medium is the message. Read more

Review:I'll second what others have said - blame Amazon for Kindle typographical errors, not the Author.

Fantastic book, fantastic author. A must read for anyone who deals with computers on a professional level. This technology has far reaching ramifications.

This book should take you maybe a week or two to go through (depending on your familiarity with calculus and matrix operations). It breaks everything down into bite sized chunks so our poor wet ware can absorb it. Read more

Review:I am not convinced that Hawkins has "the right answer" to how intelligence works or "the best strategy" to developing intelligent machines; I simply don't think we know either of those things yet. But he lays out his ideas in clear, readable prose and leaves a moderately informed, intelligent reader clear on what he is asserting, why he is saying it, and what the implications will be if he's right. Given the complexity of the field that is an achievement in and of itself. And he may turn out to ... Read more

Review:There are a lot of books available on the subject of cryptography. For the non- technical, non-practitioner
I think this one may be the best (though, I certainly have not read them all). Its very readable and accessible.
Not boring. Read more

Review:Don't believe all the Gamer Haters who crawled out to attack what's his names ex girlfriend. I guess no one is allowed to dump a Gamer Hater. I plan to read the book this coming weekend. In the meantime, trust reviews from verified buys over the Gamer Haters. Read more

Review:When I first received my iPad, a friend recommended that I check this book out from the library. I'm glad I bought it instead, for one read will not do the trick for me. I need to be able to look in the index and find how to do whatever I am involved with at the time. I am not particularly adept when it comes to electronics, so the Dummy book makes it possible for me to enjoy having an iPad. Read more

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Review:Excellent.

I recently began a Python project and realized that my skills had gotten pretty rusty.
Also, I decided I wanted to move up to Python 3.
The book provided many answers and insights; I have found it invaluable.
Although some parts of the book are terse, the language is, for the most part, clear and direct, without mumbo-jumbo, and it wasn't written to show how smart the authors are. (It's obvious that they are smart, smart enough to know the importance of good communicat... Read more

Review:If you have some procedural programming experience already then this book will be great for you to switch to the world of OOP. If not, then take it slow, but it can still work. I took an OOP course featuring C++ and got lost quickly, but in just a few chapters of Bruce Eckels' book, he helped me to understand what I had missed. The book starts out with a great foundation of explaining what objects are, then tells us that Everything is and object, and explains why. It explained these concep... Read more

Review:This is not an introduction to Java Concurrency.
This is not a taxonomic reference-like book that describes the Java Concurrency APIs either.
Rather it is a skilled guide on how to take advantage of the concurrency APIs and constructs to avoid the intricacies and difficulties of concurrent programming.
The reading is technically advanced.

The approach followed often involves presenting concurrency issues, exposing the associated pitfalls with a wrong solution and refining it to p... Read more