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Computer Books for Sale (May 2016)

Posted by Author on May 18, 2016
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Spring cleaning time! Lots of new computer books are now for sale. If you are interested please comment or contact raphiinconcordia@gmail.com.

 

Research in Writing in Political Science
Author: Mark Charlton
ISBN: 978-0176406165
Price: $25

 

Mapping the Political Landscape
Author: Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay
Price: $35


Programming the World Wide Web
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Price: $60

 

Absolute C++
Author: Walter Savitch
Price: $60

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3Rd Edition
Author: Stuart J. Russel, Peter Norvig
Concordia Course: COMP 472
Price: $60

 

Probability for Dummies – $15
Debora Rumsey
ISBN: 978-0-471-75141-0

 

Distributed Systems: Concepts and Designs (4th Edition)
Author: George Coulouris
Price: $40

 

Public Relations: The Profession and the Practice
Author: Dan Lattimore
ISBN: 858-9967572376
Price: $25

Understanding Scientific Reasoning (5th Edition)
Author: Ronald N. Giere
Price: $80

Linear Algebra (4th Edition)
Author: Stephen Friedberg
Price: $90

The Craft of Functional Programming
Author: Simon Thompson
Price: $40

Technology and Contemporary Art (ARTH 353) Textbook:
Price: $20

Principles of Marketing (5th Canadian Edition)
Author: Phillip Kotler
Price: $100

Elementary Linear Algebra:
Price: $30

Introduction to Information Retrieval
Author: Christopher D. Manning
Price: $40

Intro to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
Author: Sheldon M Ross
Price: $40

Data Structures & Algorithms in Java (4th Edition)
Author: Michael T Goodrich
Price: $30

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
Author: Linda Null
Price: $40

Other books:

The Jade Peony
Author : Wayson Choy
Price: $15

Think Communication Textbook:
ISBN: 978-0205766499
Price: $8

Canadian Oxford World Atlas (6th Edition)
Price: $20

The Sound and The Fury
Author: William Faulkner
Price: $15

Backpack Literature
Author: Dana Giona
Price: $15

Computer Books for Sale

Posted by Author on February 1, 2016
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The following books are for sale. If you are interested please comment or email raphiinconcordia@gmail

Title: Introduction to Information Retrieval

Author: Christopher D. Manning,Hinrich Schutze,Prabhakar R
Concordia Course: COMP 479
Price: $45

Title: Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edit
Author: Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, George Coulouris
Concordia Course: SOEN 423
Price: $25

Title: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3Rd Edition
Author: Stuart J. Russel, Peter Norvig
Concordia Course: COMP 472
Price: $60

Understanding Scientific Reasoning Fifth Edition – $30
Ronald Giere . John Bickle . Robert F. Mauldin
ISBN: 978-0155063266

Mapping the Political Landscape: An Introduction to Political Science – $40
Includes Research and Writing Guide
Tremblay, Lecours, Nikolenyi, Salloukh, Scala
ISBN: 978-0-17-642413-8

Probability for Dummies – $15
Debora Rumsey
ISBN: 978-0-471-75141-0

Differential Equations Workbook for Dummies – $15
Steven Holzner
ISBN: 978-0-470-47201-9

Differential Equations for Dummies – $15
Steven Holzner
ISBN: 978-0-470-17814-0

Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers – $35
Sheldon Ross
ISBN: 978-0-12-598057-9

Programming the World Wide Web, Sixth – $15 (for SOEN 287, Concordia)
Robert W. Sebesta
ISBN: 978-0-13-213081-3

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, Third Edition – $50
Linda Null and Julia Lobur
ISBN: 9781449600068

Concordia ENCS 282 Coursepack – $15
($43 + at the bookstore)

 

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ENCS 393 Midterm Pointers

Posted by Author on May 26, 2015
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Key Terms for the Midterm:

  • Notions; Technocratic Notion, Enlightenment Notion, Counter-enlightenment Notion
  • Determinism: Technological determinism (Samurai and guns), hard/soft
  • Social Constructivism (Amish and cellphones) & Co-Constructivism
  • Falsifiability
  • Value: Instrumental Valuation / Inherent Valuation
  • Conceptual Clarity
  • Forms of Life
  • Technological Somnambulism
    • Born from: new worlds technology creates, viewing technology as tools we put down at any time, separation of makers and users
  • Narrative: Intention, Artifact and Desire (rock to car window)
  • Logical Malleability
  • The Invisibility Factor
  • Utalitarianism
    • Consequentialism
    • Hedonism
    • Aggregative
  • Deontology
    • Categorical
    • Formula of Universal Law
      • Step 1) Identify Implicit Maxim, Step 2) Apply it to everyone, Step 3) Imagine the world now
    • Formula of End in Itself
  • Morally Important Things and Mere Things
  • Justice as Fairness
    • Original Position
    • Veil of Ignorance
    • Difference Principle
  • Social Contract Theory
    • State of Nature
  • Artificial Intelligence / Intelligence Amplification
  • PUST / PEST Model
  • Emergent Properties

Questions Discussed in Class:

  • Define Science
  • Which type of technological assessment do we need to wake up from technological somnambulism?
  • What’s the difference between the 3 categories of Artifacts having politics?
  • Define technology as a narrative (David Nye)
  • What is David Nye’s defense against claims that he is a Technological Determinist?
  • How does technology shape our Forms of Life?
  • How does Logical Malleability make computers different?
  • What are “legitimate non-technical critiques of science and technology?”

COMP 335 Midterm Bullet Points

Posted by Author on May 26, 2015
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Language Properties

  • UNION of two NON-Regular languages can be Regular.
    • E.g. a non-regular language and its compliment, is Σ*, which is regular.
  • INTERSECTION of NON-Regular language and Regular language can be regular.
    • E.g. classic non-regular language and empty set results in empty set, which is regular
  • L² is the language concatenated with itself. L¹ is the language itself. L° is the language containing only the lambda = {λ}
    • I was wondering why  L° = {λ} and not L° = ∅ but I found it can’t be ∅ since if you concatenate ∅ with L¹ for example, you would get ∅ and not L¹.

Grammars

  • A grammar that produces words with no terminals, is simply the grammar for ∅, even if it looks fancy.
    • E.g. S -> SS | Sa | aS
    • E.g. S -> aA | a,   A -> AbA produces only the language {a} since the A variable doesn’t produce anything with only terminals.

 

Simple explanation of CORS

Posted by Author on December 8, 2014
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I couldn’t find any simple explanation of Cross Origin Request Sharing, so after digesting some large articles, I can summarize it like this:

CORS is something your browser implements for you to protect you while keeping the web functional. If your browser just allowed any webpage you are looking at to make requests to other websites, then evil people can add scripts on their websites that request “facebook.com” and steal your personal Cookies. That would be bad. So your browser doesn’t let one website (like badguys.com) to just make requests from your browser to sites like “facebook.com“. However, your browser is willing to make exceptions for servers that tell it that they’re cool with requests from other pages. So if “api.weather.com” is happy to take requests about the weather from anyone who asks (i.e. they don’t store personal cookies so nothing to steal) they include special CORS headers that tell your browser to send cross site requests, everything is OK.

Basically, your browser takes care of all this and tries to keep you safe by only allowing sites you visit to request other sites if the other site tells your browser that they’re OK with it.