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Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by 3rdAccount » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:00 AM UTC

e19293001 wrote: post #4

If you want to know about how to build a simple computer, computer architecture, assembly language, assemblers, linkers, compilers, java, c, c++, how compilers are built, how compilers generate assembly language, how machine code are executed by the processor, how to implement a grep with regular expressions and much more. If you want to learn them fast, look for the books of this author[0]. I'm not affiliated with h…

Which one of his books covers how to build a computer, and is nand2tetris better?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by maroonblazer » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC

Kotler's "Marketing Management" remains the most definitive text on the practice of marketing.

Many people - including some on HN - mistakenly equate marketing with only advertising or, more broadly, marketing communications. In truth that's only a small portion of the discipline.

https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Management-14th-Philip-Kotl...

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by neom » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:08 AM UTC

Not sure if these count as textbooks by most peoples measures, but they have been textbooks for me.

[1]Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

[2]The Wal-Mart Triumph: Inside the World’s #1 Company

[3]Guerilla Marketing

[4]The Lords of Strategy

[5]Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

[6] The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

[7]The Deming Management Method

[8]Creativity Inc.

[9]The Wisdom of Teams

[10]On Communication

[11]On Managing Yourself

[12]The Art of Facilitation

[13]Death by Meeting

[14]Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

[15]Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by allenleee » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:17 AM UTC

In functional programming:

[0] The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

[1] The_Little_Schemer

[2] Programming in Haskell - Graham Hutton

[3] Types and Programming Languages-Benjamin C. Pierce

--- PDFS

[0](https://github.com/allenleein/brains/blob/master/Zen-of-Func...)

[1](https://github.com/allenleein/brains/blob/master/Zen-of-Func...)

[2](https://github.com/allenleein/brains/blob/master/Zen-of-Func...)

[3](https://github.com/allenleein/brains/blob/master/Zen-of-Func...)

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by egypturnash » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:21 AM UTC

Preston Blair, "Cartoon Animation" https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Animation-Collectors-Preston-...

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by larrydag » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:32 AM UTC

Yadi wrote: post #7

In machine learning, hands down these are some of the best related textbooks: - [0] Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) and also: - [1] The Elements of Statistical Learning - [2] Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Barto and Sutton - [3] The Deep Learning by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, and Yoshua Bengio - [4] Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing…

For regression I really like Frank Harrell's Regression Modeling Strategies. http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/RmS

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by vincentmarle » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

maroonblazer wrote: post #12

Kotler's "Marketing Management" remains the most definitive text on the practice of marketing. Many people - including some on HN - mistakenly equate marketing with only advertising or, more broadly, marketing communications. In truth that's only a small portion of the discipline. https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Management-14th-Philip-Kotl...

I’m curious to know why you think it’s so good. I’ve studied marketing in the early 2000’s and Kotler’s Marketing Management was pretty much the only book we’ve read, but after college I didn’t feel I could apply much of its lessons to the companies I’ve built myself or the companies I’ve worked for. Most of Kotler’s material is based on how big traditional brands have done marketing, but that wasn’t helpful to me when I was working on early-stage tech startups.

Granted, I wasn’t the most dedicated student at the time, so maybe I just should read it again, but it would be helpful to know what you got out of it.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by jonathanpoulter » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives is basically a Bible. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/013447208X/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by e19293001 » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

3rdAccount wrote: post #11

e19293001 wrote: post #4

If you want to know about how to build a simple computer, computer architecture, assembly language, assemblers, linkers, compilers, java, c, c++, how compilers are built, how compilers generate assembly language, how machine code are executed by the processor, how to implement a grep with regular expressions and much more. If you want to learn them fast, look for the books of this author[0]. I'm not affiliated with h…

Which one of his books covers how to build a computer, and is nand2tetris better?

Assembly Language and Computer Architecture Using C++ and Java , Course Technology, 2004

I can't say which is better. Nand2tetris has different approach.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by cbHXBY1D » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 2:52 AM UTC

Yadi wrote: post #7

In machine learning, hands down these are some of the best related textbooks: - [0] Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) and also: - [1] The Elements of Statistical Learning - [2] Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Barto and Sutton - [3] The Deep Learning by Aaron Courville, Ian Goodfellow, and Yoshua Bengio - [4] Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing…

I have to disagree with The Deep Learning book. I don't find it a good book for anyone. For beginners it's too advanced/theoretical and for experienced ML scientists it's entirely too basic. I very much agree with this review on Amazon [1].

For the former, I would recommend Hands-On Learning with Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1XNPL1BX5IVOM/re...