Dec 28 2007
In bookflurries this week, cfk had ‘books of 2007’. That seemed like such a good idea, that I am using it here, too! Below is a list of books I at least started reading or re-reading. I certainly didn’t finish them all!
If you’d like, list books you started reading, in comments
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What are you reading? is crossposted to dailyKos
Dec 21 2007
Just the usual list today; next week, I’ll try to do a ‘year in review’.
If you like to trade books, try BookMooch.
What are you reading? is crossposted to docudharma
Been a while since I did a ‘regular list’….
Bruce Sterling The Zenith Angle…. A lot of fun – geeks and stuff.
David Ruelle The mathematician’s brain: A personal tour through the essentials of mathematics and some of the great minds behind them A very eclectic, personal book. Really a set of short essays, loosely connected; all about math in one way or another, but very varied. Mostly not technical.
Brian Ripley Pattern recognition and neural networks
I just got Jack Vance’s Araminta station through Bookmooch, I will start it soon.
I am re-reading Heinlein’s the Moon is a Harsh Mistress. OK, Heinlein’s political views aren’tm mine, but dang, that man could write a story.
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Blogs:
Political Arithmetik Charles Franklin (who also writes for pollster) presents thoughtful and graphically interesting analysis of polls. Not updated that often.
pollster.com a really good source of data, nicely if simply presented
polling report including the subscriber only state polls. All sorts of interesting polls, not just elections
good math bad math Mark Chu-Carroll is a progressive and a mathematician and a computer scientist. Funny and interesting looks at the beauty of good math and the horror of bad math. Fun stuff.
statistical science, causal inference and social modeling Andrew Gelman is a statistician at Columbia. Tons of interesting things about politics and statistics.
Some site called Daily Kos, which is kinda like this site, only different… 🙂
and, of course docudharma!
Dec 14 2007
Dec 01 2007
Just the usual list this week. Suggestions for topics are welcome.
If you like to trade books, try BookMooch.
Just finished:
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. I had mostly forgotten this one, and it’s really
Continuing with
Causality by Judea Pearl. Fascinating but deep.
Intro to Probability Theory by Hoel, Port, and Stone. A good text.
The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani. An in-depth look at a wide range of statistical techniques. Beautifully produced.
The Politics of Congressional Elections by Gary Jacobson
Just started
Privacy in Peril by James Rule. Oxford U. P. has been sending me books to review, and I am going to start with this one. I am only 10 pages into it, but it looks very good indeed. Well-reasoned and well-written.
Soul Music “Music with Rocks In” comes to Discworld. Features Death and his granddaughter Susan.
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