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Up-to-date, accessible and concise. Great introduction to expert systems

Posted in book, computer science, software engineering on Apr 20th, 2007

My review for the book Expert Systems: Principles and Programming (Fourth Edition) on amazon:
The 4th edition has remarkable changes compared to the 3rd edition, which was written in 1990. Almost all the references are highly up-to-date, new trends in the AI field and new applications leveraging expert systems are introduced all through this book. The [...]

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On Skin Care and Makeup

Posted in book, life on Apr 20th, 2007

Yesterday in the train to Eindhoven I met a sir who works in the R&D department of a big cosmetics manufacturer. He told me the dramatic price difference between a big brand cream and a cheap brand cream does not mean the effective ingredients are really that different. Say, it might cost 4 euro to [...]

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