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How To Live On Mars
The Case For Mars
The Case For Space
Entering Space
Fall 2020
Just reviewed the book on HRI. This one is excellent and goes into very important details of non-verbal and affective interactions
A while ago, in grad school, I co-authored my first book on AI. Even back then, there was an understanding that purely data-driven systems will need to work with knowledge bases representing the complexity that may or may not be there in data sets. After all, if the expert is available or the knowledge bases are available, then hybrid system architecture is the way to go. This book was one of the first reports on how a knowledge-based and a machine learning component can be put together in a single system.
This quantum mechanics text is a very accessible introduction to the mathematics of quantum computing.
Natural Language Processing
Data design and user interface design:
Very well written NLP text. Lot's of foundational algorithms. The section on applications in various business sections is very valuable.
Summer 2020 Fun Readings
History and technology combined.
Management lessons from Navy Seals. High quality concepts delivered in a military style
Interesting take on musical theory concepts and physics
2017: Winter Holidays: classical sci-fi:
Interesting analysis on various number concepts and their relationships to culture and language. Particularly, the vigesimal system developed by the Mayan civilization was developed to support astronomical and calendar applications.
My recent reads: excellent book on quaternions, octonions, hamiltonians and many other graph theory concepts. Essential content for programming knowledge representation and AI algorithms.
Purpose, Objectives, Strategy, Execution.
The role of profit and profit maximization.
People vs. Power, Values, Structure and Constitution.
Today's workers require a lot more than a simple paycheck: they need to be empowered and contribute in increasingly meaningful ways.
Interesting reflection on Peter Drucker's views and contributions.
Great read: team management - finding and managing the right kind of team players
Reading about great artists: electronic music and prog-rock: Jean Michelle Jarre, Eddie Jobson
From my AI shelf: very valuable resource for dimensionality reduction and machine learning optimization:
AI as a tool for recruitment. Good piece in the Fortune Magazine, (June 1, 2017)
According to Google and their data: "...grades, test scores, and a school's pedigree weren't a good predictor of job success."
Great idea for a book on math: gaming applications...
Good read on sensors and deep learning in the Unmanned Technology magazine.
It is interesting to see how quickly this technology is maturing. There is increasing amount of mentions of AI technology. In this magazine there great piece on digital signal processing (DSP) and AlexNet CNN, hardware accelerators, power advantages of neural networks in embedded systems, etc.
Interesting problems from the 57th Mathematical Olympiad (Source: Mathematics Magazine, vol. 89, No 5, 2016
Model Rocketry Conference:
Civil engineering... building a suspension bridge
(2017)
From my AI shelf
(2016)
From my software engineering shelf....
Green tea in the morning....
