This year was huge for me in the field of machine learning and computer vision in particular. A bit more than a year ago I would never believe that I would spend a week abroad not…
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.
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…
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