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Artificial Intelligence : A New Synthesis
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Author: Nils Nilsson
List Price: $70.95
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ISBN: 1558604677
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (01 April, 1998)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 91,663
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Run Forrest Run
In general avoid this book.
I purchased this book for a course, and unfortunately this is my first book. Its 95% maths, of course AI is a lot of math, but the book is so abstract and nothing related to practical stuff. Take convolution filters, it gives integrals and all that stuff, but what exactly does it do, how does it perform it on images, and where the heck are sample images, and sample matricies.
I bet this author must have sent this book out to teachers so that 50 students would have to buy this over priced book with no practicle use and so hard to read/understand and extremely dense.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Not a good intro to AI
While the book is well organised and number of topics covered is substantial, this was the worst intro-to-anything book I had to suffer through. If calculus is something you are very comfortable with, then go ahead, read it. :-)
Rating: 4 out of 5
nice, but with these errors
A nice book. Especially the order in which the topics are covered is a good idea. However, you will not find the following errors reported in the book's webpage:Page 52: The "high-degree function" is not a function! Page 92: In Figure 6.6, the topmost pixels that get deleted as a result of the averaging operation should actually remain there, since both their sums are 4, which is greater than the threshold, which is 3. Page 100: In Fig. 6.13, the last row of the last image contains a spurious image boundary. Page 151: In Fig. 9.8, there are two nodes with name n; the one which is higher in the figure should have the subscript 1. Page 152, item 3 in the list: There is an implicit assumption that h-hat always returns 0 for goal states. I don't think that this assumption is stated earlier in the text. Page 165: In Figure 10.1, all arrows are supposed to be pointing away from the current state. Page 246: The last paragraph mentions ".. the two interpretations for Clear and On suggested by Fig. 15.2", but aren't actually THREE interpretations suggested for On? And in the current errata list in the book's website, something is clearly wrong with item 6, since it says n_i should be replaced by n_i. All in all, a good book.
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