Algorithms from the BookKenneth Lange
Algorithms from the Book
by Kenneth Lange · first published 2020
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on “Proofs from the Book” ↗This is a personalized news site that I wrote in two months based on algorithms from the book Programming Collective Intelligence. Please tell me what you think. It has two main features: the ability to identify related /similar links and suggestions/recommendations that actually work. The basis…
on “My personalized news site based on the book Programming Collective Intelligence” ↗…copyright law it is impossible to copyright "an algorithm." What one can copyright is source code but as long as you do not copy the source verbatim it is not copyrighted. I would suggest you translate the algorithms from the book into mathematical expressions and then implement your own code from there. This should be legal to publish.
on “Publish your computer code: it is good enough” ↗HashLife is one of the algorithms from the book. I wrote a simple implementation in CoffeeScript and tried answering the following question: "If you set up a Glider Gun when the Earth was first formed 4.5 billion years ago, and ran one generation…
on “Algorithms from the “Book”” ↗This collection of Jupyter notebooks that reproduces graphics and implements algorithms from the book could be a nice supplementary resource. https://github.com/maitbayev/the-elements-of-statistical-lea...
on “The Elements of Statistical Learning [pdf]” ↗The core algorithms Knuth discusses are unchanged in all those years. The practicality concerns are wildly different. Study the algorithms from the book, because it doesn't have a huge amount of opinion on when to use them anyway.
on “Current draft of The Art of Computer Programming pre-fascicle 6a [ps]” ↗…presently at its mathematical level is to skip all of the math you can't currently understand. You'll eventually pick up on it, but in the meantime, you'll also get a lot from just reimplementing the algorithms from the book in whatever your favorite language is, and doing whatever exercises you're capable of handling with a bit of effort.
on “Ask HN: 30s and “senior” software engineer, but I suck at programming” ↗