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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard W. Hamming

Richard Hamming uses stories from computing, coding, and engineering to show how preparation, sound models, and deliberate choices can help you do consequential work.

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8 parts, about 29 minutes to read.

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Author
Richard W. Hamming
Parts
8 parts
Reading time
about 29 minutes
The whole book
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What the summary covers

  1. Learning to Learn2 min
  2. Computers Change the Problem5 min
  3. Representation, Codes, and Error5 min
  4. Filtering and Transfer4 min
  5. Simulation and Its Limits3 min
  6. Looking Ahead and Learning Across Fields4 min
  7. Data, Systems, and Measures4 min
  8. You and Your Research2 min

Read it alongside

  • Puts it into practiceAlgorithms to Live By

    Hamming asks systems to degrade gracefully under excess demand. Christian and Griffiths describe TCP slowing senders after packet loss, and explain how oversized buffers hide that congestion signal.

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