具体描述
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers; and, we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform these tasks with such ease? This is the first book to answer that question in language anyone can understand, revealing the extraordinary ideas that power our PCs, laptops, and smartphones. Using vivid examples, John MacCormick explains the fundamental "tricks" behind nine types of computer algorithms, including artificial intelligence (where we learn about the "nearest neighbor trick" and "twenty questions trick"), Google's famous PageRank algorithm (which uses the "random surfer trick"), data compression, error correction, and much more. These revolutionary algorithms have changed our world: this book unlocks their secrets, and lays bare the incredible ideas that our computers use every day.
用户评价
##能把复杂的东西通过这种通俗的语言和例子表述出来，真的很好，值得学习。看完了9个算法，没有看最后一章what's computable。特别喜欢前面2章，讲search engine和page rank。最后2章没有看那么仔细，跳着看的。
##没有数学、没有代码，讲的全部是“直觉”层面的东西，神作！
##其实早就读完了……
##简洁 易懂
##简洁 易懂
##我已经跟不下五个朋友说过，“我最近读了个一本书叫九个超屌算法改变未来”，读完之后觉得世界真他妈奇妙啊.........
##其实早就读完了……
##我已经跟不下五个朋友说过，“我最近读了个一本书叫九个超屌算法改变未来”，读完之后觉得世界真他妈奇妙啊.........
##很好很明白，但过于简单，只适合极其外行的朋友