Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers; and, we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform these tasks with such ease? This is the first book to answer that question in language anyone can understand, revealing the extraordinary ideas that power our PCs, laptops, and smartphones. Using vivid examples, John MacCormick explains the fundamental "tricks" behind nine types of computer algorithms, including artificial intelligence (where we learn about the "nearest neighbor trick" and "twenty questions trick"), Google's famous PageRank algorithm (which uses the "random surfer trick"), data compression, error correction, and much more. These revolutionary algorithms have changed our world: this book unlocks their secrets, and lays bare the incredible ideas that our computers use every day.
##Nice introduction to a world between my fingers.
评分##Clear and clever states for difficult concepts. May I do something similiarly?
评分##简洁 易懂
评分##非常浅显
评分##没有数学、没有代码,讲的全部是“直觉”层面的东西,神作!
评分##适合没有任何基础的人阅读,有点啰嗦
评分##回过头来看,我为什么把这本教科书也放进来了? 2017123
评分##Very good explanation of complicated algorithms and their applications.
评分##伟大的思想都来自对生活细微处的思考。然而说实话,废话太多(针对计算机系的来说)。
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