A nice data mining course handout

recommendation system, pagerank, mapreduce etc: http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/mining/2009/index.html

Who is the greatest inventor ever since?

Someone asked me: who is the greatest scientist?
A name comes to my mind: Thomas Edison.
What's his contribution? I am asking myself. Light Bulb?
He has 1093 granted patents around the world (he applied much more than that).
Finally I see, his biggest invention is to massively produce patents/inventions.

Forming industrial lab to massively produce patents/inventions just
as his friend Henry Ford did to form a streamline to massively produce
cars.

C++ 11 (C++0x ) concurrency

the most important addition to C++11 is concurrency, here is an introduction
video:

http://www.corensic.com/Learn/Resources/ConcurrencyTutorialPartOne.aspx

an early book: C++ concurrency in Action.

The Biggest Changes in C++11 (and Why You Should Care):
http://www.codeproject.com/News/16244/The-Biggest-Changes-in-Cplusplus11-and-Why-You-Sho.aspx

C++11 - the recently approved new ISO C++ standard

http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html#lambda

Trie

Trie has wide application in "words": suggestion system,
phone book, spell check etc.

http://www.technicalypto.com/2010/04/trie-in-java.html


A lot of people was asked about Trie during interviews:
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/JobHunting/31926643.html