michielbuddingh + books 3
Embedded in Academia : Book Review: Street-Fighting Mathematics
june 2010 by michielbuddingh
" ... Street-Fighting Mathematics — the title refers to the fact that in a street fight, it’s better to have a quick and dirty answer than to stand there thinking about the right thing to do — is based on the premise that we can and should use rapid estimation techniques to get rough answers to difficult problems. There are good reasons for preferring estimation over rigorous methods: the answer is arrived at quickly, the full set of input data may not be needed, and messy calculus-based or numerical techniques can often be avoided. Perhaps more important, by avoiding a descent into difficult symbol pushing, a greater understanding of the problem’s essentials can sometimes be gained and a valuable independent check on rigorous — and often more error prone — methods is obtained. ... "
mathematics
books
toread
review
june 2010 by michielbuddingh
Effective TCP/IP Programming: 44 Tips to Improve Your Network Programs (9780201615890): Jon C. Snader (Amazon.com)
january 2010 by michielbuddingh
" ... Besides offering nuts-and-bolts programming advice and plenty of hints for better performance, Snader also discusses how IP works under the hood. Standout sections here include a discussion of the pitfalls of scaling a stand-alone or LAN TCP/IP application to the Internet, as well as what a "reliable" protocol like TCP really means. He shows you how to handle misbehaving servers and clients, and how to use multiple sockets effectively, and he offers several useful tips for optimizing data streamed across the wire ... "
books
programming
tcp
ip
networking
january 2010 by michielbuddingh
Salvaged drawers = modular bookcase - Craftynest
december 2009 by michielbuddingh
" ... My original plan was to put the drawers on wheels and use them as under-bed storage. Turns out, no two drawers are the same height, which would look janky. So I tried stacking them vertically instead (anchoring them to the wall, of course). You could also hang these drawers as individual shadowboxes ... "
diy
books
bookcase
furniture
cheap
december 2009 by michielbuddingh
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