Prof. Sussman's Reading List (2016)

http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html

by tmseidman • 1 year ago

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perihelions2• 1 year ago

Previous thread here,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411408 ("Prof. Sussman's Reading List (aurellem.org)" (2015), 75 comments)

neilv• 1 year ago

We need a lot more Gerald Sussmans.

FredPret• 1 year ago

The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Highly understandable

Haha, I love the Feynman Lectures, but the only reason I can make head or tails of it is because I'm using it to brush up on subjects I've already studied before

II2II• 1 year ago

I would describe the Feynman Lectures as highly understandable in the same way that I would describe the Art of Electronics as highly understandable: while you will definitely benefit from prior exposure, these are the books I would choose if I could only read only one book in their respective fields. While they take more effort to understand, I'm pretty sure I could have read them coming out of high school and would have had a better understanding of the subject matter than I would have gained from the eclectic mix of textbooks I did learn from.

GaltMidas• 1 year ago

It’s a shame that those Minsky links have been broken for at least a few months now. Does anyone know where this material is?

perihelions2• 1 year ago

Looks like someone is mirroring it here,

https://www.mit.edu/~dxh/marvin/web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/mi...

Looks identical to the old captures on archive.org, so that checks out.

teleforce• 1 year ago

I highly recommend Prof. Sussman talk at the Strange Loop conference 2011 [1].

It's not his inaugural lecture but it's pretty close where he talk about his research work with his former students.

It's also paved the way to modern constraint programming based on logic and optimization which are the machine intelligence that's complementary to the conventional data driven and learning bases AI.

[1] "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman - MIT (2011) [video]:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI

Prof. Sussman's Reading List (2016)

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