I'm reading this now. Things like this remind me of why I love the Internet. So much great knowledge, freely available for everyone. It boggles the imagination sometimes.
Also, another book that some HN'ers might find interesting is this one:
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms:
This is a fantastic book, I'm using it to build my own IR system and it has been immensely useful. I also own Managing Gigabytes but I find this book to be much more useful and up to date.
This is a fantastic survey book. It's one of those few books that's exactly what it's called. You can always dive deeper on the stuff that's interesting/relevant to you after reading this book, but I have yet to find a book at this level that's this good.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 22.3 ms ] threadAlso, another book that some HN'ers might find interesting is this one:
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/