Timeline for How do people read big technical books?
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| Nov 29, 2017 at 20:31 | comment | added | rwong | @MDMoore313 In one sentence: "how to BitTorrent human knowledge of a book." | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 18:23 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | Needed N finitely more people to help me read @rwong 's comment. | |
| Oct 20, 2013 at 11:41 | comment | added | Anton Petrov | Should have asked "How to climb a mountain".. it's more vegetarian. | |
| May 4, 2011 at 0:07 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by AstonJ | ||
| Apr 27, 2011 at 9:37 | comment | added | user1449 | not a real answer | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 22:38 | comment | added | user2567 | Read "Dance With Chance" | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 11:19 | comment | added | rwong | In theory, an elephant-eating club of N people should cut down time by N. A book-reading club of N people would operate in two phases. In the first phase, each person read 1/N of the book, assuming no dependency in reading order. The second phase would be an O(N^2) communication, but would only take O(N) time steps because in each time step a person can broadcast to the other N-1 persons. Assuming the time needed to broadcast 1/N of the book is also proportional to 1/N, the time needed for the second phase would be independent of N, the number of people in the club. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 10:54 | comment | added | user131 | I'm quite certain that elephants, everywhere are planning a revolution due to this post, you insensitive clod. Additionally, at which end of the elephant should one begin eating? | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 9:55 | comment | added | user1539 | It also takes a long time to eat an elephant. You would get bored of it by the time it's over. Same might be an issue with huge technical books. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 7:10 | history | answered | user2567 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |