In the spring of 2010, I was privileged to have a conversation with Simon Schaffer, who pointed me to the work of a sociologist and philosopher of science named Harry Collins. This year, I discovered and read Collins' new book, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, and a somewhat older book, The Shape of Actions (co-authored with…
A tutorial that teaches you everything it takes to render 3D graphics with the Vulkan API. It covers everything from Windows/Linux setup to rendering and debugging.
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies
At some point, you can’t get any further with linked lists, selection sort, and voodoo Big O, and you have to go get a real algorithms textbook and learn all that horrible math, at least a little. But which book? There are tons of them. I haven’t read every algorithms book out there, but I…
The joyous lion of theoretical computer science Boaz Barak is reporting on Avi Wigderson's book Mathematics and Computation which is on Avi's homepage. I read through an earlier version and it is highly recommended! Let me also recommend Avi's earlier survey on interaction between CS and math.
M. (Mahendra Nath Gupta) elaborated his diaries in five parts of ‘Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita‘ in Bengali which were first published at Kathamrita Bhawan, 13/2 Guru Prasad Chaudhury Lane, Calcutta in the years 1902, 1905, 1908, 1910 and 1932 respectively.
Their English and Hindi translations are now available in five volumes each, being word by word translation of the original.
K. Anjyo, H. Ochiai, и B. Barsky. Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics, Animation, Computational Photography and Imaging Morgan & Claypool Publishers, (2017)