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Algorithms for Decision Making

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  Algorithms for Decision Making(http://algorithmsbook.com/)  
  693 points|Dowwie|1 year ago|85 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716581

  Algorithms for Decision Making [pdf](https://algorithmsbook.com/files/dm.pdf)  
  498 points|mindcrime|3 months ago|50 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123683

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https://juliaacademy.com/p/decision-making-under-uncertainty...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593156

Since the cutoff for dupes is a year or so (assuming a story has had significant attention), we've marked the current submission a dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

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.

It would be nice to have a reflowable non-PDF version.

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?

thanks!

Have you heard about Euterpea? There is a textbook that covers it:

https://www.euterpea.com/haskell-school-of-music/

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"

Thanks — I looked for something like that but couldn't find it. I'm not sure why.

I was also thinking of the website as well.

Website says it in the footer?

Here's the github repo used to create books in the same style: https://github.com/sisl/tufte_algorithms_book

Note that this repo is from the same author as the book.

I recognize the LaTeX theme, it's the Tufte-style book theme: https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/tufte

Everything else is probably just LaTeX magic

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.

If the former sounds interesting, here is a similar book I read a long time ago: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...

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.

I have a bucket for socks of the type sock. Am I doing it right?

If it works for you, it's right.

Second this. Fascinating book.

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.

I’ve been working to improve this very issue myself; the compulsion to seek further options before committing to a decision has diminishing returns.

This site is also useful in that regard: https://untools.co/

So...there are at least two foolish.

Yes, it's about reinforcement learning, same as AlphaGo.

You're saying that you thought it was a self-help/self-improvement book?

Note: the underline to the links is almost invisible... I viewed source to find the hrefs

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