具体描述
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.
用户评价
##通俗易懂，建议每个人都看看 等我的读书札记
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##其实早就读完了……
评分##Funny and easy to understand. How I wish he was my undergraduate professor
评分##非常浅显
评分##Funny and easy to understand. How I wish he was my undergraduate professor
评分##Clear and clever states for difficult concepts. May I do something similiarly?
评分##其实早就读完了……
评分##Nice introduction to a world between my fingers.
