Tag: books
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Thinking about “Think Stats”
I saw Allen Downey lament on LinkedIn that when he gets a message from Google Alerts about “think stats”, and it’s not about his book “Think Stats”, it’s usually someone saying something negative about statistics. Well, just let me say, I think stats are great, and I’m sure “Think Stats” is great too! I’ve just…
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“The Wild Trees”
Richard Preston’s 2007 book “The Wild Trees” drew me along, partly through instilling a fear that the next paragraph would reveal a fatal fall. I’m glad to see that the main protagonists still seem to have survived to this day: Stephen Sillett, Marie Antoine, Michael Taylor. I appreciated the adventure and the science, the personal…
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Another walk, another weed
I swung by the library to return some books, then picked up a few more: The game design book was waiting there for me. I searched for “startup” in the catalog on a whim, which led me to the others. (Per this Reddit thread, Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design is also worth a look. The…