Tag: Amazon
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Strange reviews on Amazon
Messing about with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) continues to take up some of my time (in case my supervisor reads this – I also have a simulation of a many core system running on the university’s computer atm). I started my research here with a much cited, but really well-out-0f-date book – Practical Neural Network Recipes…
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Get your books more cheaply – possibly
I often link from this site to Amazon – the hope is that you might buy some of the things I talk about and then I get a (small) return which I can use to buy things I like at Amazon. It doesn’t work too well for me – I think I have made 26…
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Annoyed with @amazon and their b0rked business model
Last week I was sent a $50 Amazon.com gift voucher: a very pleasant surprise. I immediately loaded the voucher into my Amazon.com account (I had one of these long before I got an amazon.co.uk account) and then thought about what books I’d like to order – picked a couple and thought “that’s nice”. Despite the…
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We lost more than our record shops because of the MP3
Today HMV, once His Master’s Voice and still one of the UK’s leading retailers of CDs and DVDs, went into administration (one step away from going bust). Hopes are high that at least some of the shops can be saved – not least because the record labels and the DVD manufacturers want something that will…
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The long tail of a Zipf distribution
Back in the days of the first dot.com bubble the talk was of the “long tail” – how web retailers could make a lot of money by selling small amounts of a large number of different things. True enough, one of the great survivors of those days – Amazon – does make money from the…
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Another (final) episode in the @AmazonKindle farce
In August I bought this book – Information and Coding Theory. As I was then in rural Norfolk I bought it for the Kindle. That was a mistake. The book is a good one – I would recommend it for those seeking to get to grips with the maths of information theory – an increasingly…
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With zero thanks to @AmazonKindle
Thanks to the SCONUL inter-library agreement between British universities I was able to join Imperial College‘s university library today and went on to borrow a copy of Information and Coding Theory: the book I bought about six weeks ago for the Kindle and subsequently discovered to be all-but-unreadble on that device. Immediately I can see…
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Don’t buy a Kindle to read maths or computer science books
In the last twenty-four hours I have been forced to completely reassess my view of the Kindle. I have been reading a book (I won’t say what as I want to make the comments below anonymous) on a Kindle (the device, not an application – see below), and was resigned to the usual second class Kindle…
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