Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills
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HN comment orderNorvig is a beast. For those that don't know, he is high up in Google Research (AI director I believe) and also wrote the #1 AI textbook. He has the #1 AI course on coursera or edx too (can't remember which one). He's a big lisp advocate (look at his review of SICP on amazon), but also has the programs for his books in Java, and Python.
Stumbled upon norvig's pytudes years ago during a leetcode grind. His elegant approach to problems always had this touch of clarity that only few possess. Python, with its expressive syntax, combined with norvig's penchant for crafting illuminating examples, has definitely provided me with numerous 'aha' moments. I recall, early in my career when learning about bayesian probabilities, that it was peter's "how to write a spell checker" that made the abstract concrete for me. it's really heartening to see such…
What I find interesting is how Peter builds bottom up solutions using low level utilities. This is how I have always coded in Lisp languages, but when I use Python I tend to write little monoliths. Since I now have to use Python for most of my work (deep learning), I should change the way I use Python. Reading his code is educational. Peter and I each wrote a Common Lisp book about 25 years ago and a few years…
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15787023
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1437
- Total comments
- 137
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-03 | Pytudes by Peter Norvig | rrherr | 7 | 0 |
| 2017-11-27 | Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skillsFirst breakout · Best thread | federicoponzi | 937 | 84 |
| 2018-03-02 | Peter Norvig's Pytudes | prando | 13 | 1 |
| 2019-03-07 | Peter Norvig's Pytudes: Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills | headalgorithm | 6 | 0 |
| 2019-11-28 | Pytudes: Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills | mpiedrav | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-01-01 | Pytudes: Python programs of considerable difficulty to perfect particular skills | kristianp | 5 | 0 |
| 2021-12-27 | Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skillsHall induction | Tomte | 198 | 13 |
| 2023-08-23 | PytudesLatest 20+ point return | sonabinu | 270 | 39 |