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I don't think there's any automatic credibility here. It's a book by an unknown author published by a vanity press.
by dfranke 18y ago
I don't think there's any automatic credibility here. It's a book by an unknown author published by a vanity press.
- gruseom 18y agoYou're quite right, and I see that my comment was unclear. What I meant by "credible" was "not obviously not credible"; in other words, I read the first chapter and it didn't obviously suck. It's basically an expected value calc: the probability of the book being very good is low, but my interest in the topic is so high that it's worth the bet. After I saw the author's blog (which could be described as a poster child for the "Bipolar Lisp Programmer") my probability estimate got a little lower.