The Geek Book Club
has become something of an "unbookclub." Rather than having assigned
readings from specific books, direction is based on the interests and
contributions of active members. Our coffee shop meetings have become
a forum to discuss findings, present code and ideas, and discover new
areas of interest. Slackers (you know who you are) can show up when
time permits and won't feel left behind. We are thrilled to have new
members! Anyone with a love for computer science is welcome to join us.
The
last 5-10 minutes of each meeting are reserved for a quick "scrum"
session. In turn, each of us will take a minute to describe what he
plans to study before the next meeting. As we go around the table,
common themes/articles/code/books should emerge. I'll publish our
expectations on the website so that offline members can follow along.
Our next meeting is Friday, November 13th, from 7:30am to 8:30am at the City Market (there are several) on North Avenue just east of 88th Street on the south side of the road. It's about 1 mile east of Mayfair Mall.
| We're currently exploring
- Collective Intelligence
- iPhone App Development & Open GL
- Functional Programming with Scheme and Haskell
- Python
- Parallel processing, AI
| By studying - Stanford Machine Learning lecture series by Ng
- "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Segaran
- "How to Design Programs" by Felleisen et al
- Ongoing Projects
- "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins
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