Opera Vs Firefox

Opera(another browser from among the gazillions out there) used to be ad supported or you can pay and get the ad free version. But the people over at Opera has decided to make it free(free is good). But one might wonder how would they make any money by giving it away for free? Here's the answer to it. So why would you choose Opera over the open source browser Firefox.
So Round 1 of Opera Vs Firefox!
But ultimately you should be the judge of which one is better? There is no reason for you not to try Opera since its free. On a personal note, i find the rendering in Opera to be much much faster and this is my current favorite browser.

Learning about Algorithms

So i am taking a "Design and Analysis of Algorithm" course in Uni. You might ask "What is an Algorithm?". Well the answer is here. I was doing some google search about different topics and thought it might be useful for me to collect those links and post them to my blog. So here they are,
I was reading notes on Algorithms written by Jeff Edmunds from York University and he says "Part of the goal is to teach the students to think abstractly." So i went in search of the term "abstract thinking" and here's the definition from wikipedia.
This course is actually preety mathematically intensive since it requires you to prove the correctness of the algorithm(which had to be written first).
We started the course by looking at the Galey-Shapley problem which is the stable marriage problem.

Some recommended textbooks are,
Introduction To Algorithms
Algorithm Design - "Algorithm Design introduces algorithms by looking at the real-world problems that motivate them."
Concrete Mathematics - From Amazon, "This book introduces the mathematics that supports advanced computer programming and the analysis of algorithms."

I just copied and pasted the info about the book from Amazon since i just started the course and can't really give an objective review about these books. But out of the two algorithms book, i would get Algorithm Design. From the chapters i have read, its much better than the other book.

Some More Weblinks,
Discrete Math Leture Notes - From Carnegie Mellon University(found it from here).
Bunch Of Algorithm Books For Free - Dont know if its legal books. But this website has a whole bunch of books for comp science and mathematics. (Visit it at your own risk).
Mathematics Virtual Library - Improve your math skills.

If you guys/gals out there have anything to add/recomend, please feel free to leave a comment and i will update my post as needed.

My New Domain Name

I bought a new domain name. Its http://www.kennethchu.com. I will need your help to get some google juice. So please change the link to kennethchu.com. Thanks for your help.

Hello World

Its been a long time since i have written on this blog. So what is a blog?(just kidding :-) ). I did go to Montreal as stated in my previous post. No time to write about it(maybe one of these days). Nevertheless it was a fun trip. Anyways, now that i am back in school, posting will be slow. Please bear with me.
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