smokel

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Coder by day, artist by night.

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Comment · 3 hours ago

Are you referring to the "Top all-time" list? That list seems to be mostly filled with popular books that do not go into too much detail, which is required for a decent treatment of probability and statistics.

There is a separate topic "Data & Statistics" that has quite some relevant titles.

Also, I think the interest in probability theory has only recently grown with the advent of generative AI. I'm expecting more interest in the future.

Edit: also, the site seems to miss some nice gems, most likely because they are not traditionally published books: "Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence" is freely available on Arxiv, and was discussed on Hacker News in March 2025 [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318624

Comment · 1 day ago

I suspect they know perfectly well when they can't make money from someone, so they deliberately serve up boring crap to save on hosting costs.

Comment · 5 days ago

Simplicity is only relevant to humans (and other animals that evolved into trying to forecast their survival). Most of the universe seems to prefer chaos. So no, from a universal perspective, there is no reason for reality to be simple or elegant.

Comment · 7 days ago

It seems that Air is a strategic product, and Thinkrail is more of an experiment.

While they are both "agentic development tools", it seems that Air is mostly concerned with managing multiple agents, whereas Thinkrail is about spec-first development.

Comment · 9 days ago

> Vote with your wallet

If that would work, I'd be writing this on my iPhone Mini.

Comment · 10 days ago

Well, a lot of people haven't been running NodeJS libraries in containers for ages, which seems even more risky.

Comment · 13 days ago

> Hacker News isn't interested

I wouldn't be too sure about that :)

Comment · 17 days ago

Isn't it ironic that an article on AI explainability is itself so hard to understand?

Comment · 21 days ago

Interestingly, this is not copyright infringement, or at least not for the text being reproduced here. The original book (1972) mentions "The text of this book is not copyright" [1]. The image reproductions could invite copyright trolls though, so be warned.

[1] https://pengpedia.org/edition/ways-of-seeing-john-berger-471...