| Author: | Michael Cook | ISBN: | 9781935340539 |
| Publisher: | Worthy Shorts | Publication: | November 9, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael Cook |
| ISBN: | 9781935340539 |
| Publisher: | Worthy Shorts |
| Publication: | November 9, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
In this brief and incisive essay, a financial asset manager presents his thesis for “the thumbnail sketch of the evolution of life on earth: DNA, language, writing, printing, computers, the Internet, Google’s search algorithm.” Cook assigns to Google’s Page Rank algorithm “the genius of the solution”-- the way it “neatly sidesteps” a very difficult semantic problem.
In this brief and incisive essay, a financial asset manager presents his thesis for “the thumbnail sketch of the evolution of life on earth: DNA, language, writing, printing, computers, the Internet, Google’s search algorithm.” Cook assigns to Google’s Page Rank algorithm “the genius of the solution”-- the way it “neatly sidesteps” a very difficult semantic problem.
