I find Julia code quite beautiful for books in this domain. It's readable, elegant, concise, expressive, and efficient at the same time. A great language for science.
Please! PDFs are such an awful way of transferring information. What a joke to have to read on an LCD device or buy an enormously large and expensive E-Reader.
Makes actual printing way more attractive than it should be.
This is very timely for my grad school work in computational music and algorithmic composition. Does anyone more experienced in this field know if this is an appropriate book for a newb, or if not, what a better intro would be?
I wish there was a colophon or something with information about everything that was used do produce the book and website from a graphics and design perspective.
"We have also benefited from the various open-source packages on which this
textbook depends (see appendix G). The typesetting of the code was done with
the help of pythontex, which is maintained by Geoffrey Poore. The typeface used
for the algorithms is JuliaMono (github.com/cormullion/juliamono). The plotting
was handled by pgfplots, which is maintained by Christian Feuersänger"
I guess I'm the foolish one, but I thought the title implied that the book was about algorithms you can use to make decisions, not decision making algorithms.
Algorithms To Live By is an amazing book. My favorite chapter was the one about sorting where the author comes to the same conclusion I did many years ago – do not sort your socks. It's a waste of time. Bucket them by type instead.
Thanks for the reco - this book looks very promising. <Added via Audible>
A personal deficit I have noticed in myself is .... not being able to commit to making a decision, because I think probabilistically - that I can see the other probabilities but have been recently using some shortcuts. I need more.
